Example sentences of "and [vb past] about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lay beside her uncle , her brother , and several near neighbours , the fresh earth of the recent interment scattered and scuffed about the leaf-strewn path of the Necropolis , city of the dead . |
| 2 | Once , desperate for a full night 's sleep , he had accepted her offer of a Valium , sluicing it down with his usual nightcap , and moved about the next morning like a diver walking on the seabed . |
| 3 | We were both tested and forgot about the whole thing till a few weeks later . |
| 4 | When I last saw Mailer and talked about the impending book , the atmospherics had turned suddenly propitious . |
| 5 | Oliver grunted and strode about the paved veranda impatiently . |
| 6 | He read his plays again , and he and I talked and laughed about the old days . |
| 7 | Lech Walesa was probably more popular when he was a freedom-fighter in Poland than when he came here recently and complained about the low level of enthusiasm for investing in his country.Today the only country to spend more than 1 per cent of its output on aid is Norway , with Holland and Denmark close behind . |
| 8 | Both simultaneously revile and embody all that is crabbed and cankered about the shaggy fag end of English culture . |
| 9 | We fell about laughing at the jogging carrots , head butting parsnips and other wacky characters as we jumped , climbed and ran about the many levels . |
| 10 | We fell about laughing at the jogging carrots , head butting parsnips and other whacky characters as we jumped , climbed and ran about the many levels . |
| 11 | Having read the article I turned to p 110 , Report of the Disciplinary Committee , and wondered about the double standards which seem to exist in every walk of life today . |