Example sentences of "about from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a clear , fresh night , with smoke blowing about from small fires in the gardens . |
| 2 | For most of the time he shifted about from one foot to the other , more like a naughty schoolboy who has been hauled up in front of the head master than a genie rubbed out of a bottle . |
| 3 | He never looked at her and she had the feeling that she should be hopping about from one foot to the next , ready to beg . |
| 4 | You were sort of dallying about from one foot to the other . |
| 5 | Another was ‘ a bit of a boss , and she moved about from one daughter to another … |
| 6 | You start moving men about from one job to another , and they start complaining , or demanding to be put on a higher grade . |
| 7 | He dances to the rhythm of the bells and the drums and the cymbals , moving fast , careening about from one end of the roof to the other . |
| 8 | Rushing about from one racetrack to another , always on planes or trains . |
| 9 | Although his fellow psychiatrists were thoroughly sceptical about the usefulness of an elimination diet — which Dr Mackarness had learned about from clinical ecologists in America — they were desperate enough to try anything . |