Example sentences of "[verb] about the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | He prowls about the place , you know , on his own , and dreams of springing a dazzling surprise on the archaeological world some day . |
| 2 | ‘ No , but I 've heard about the place , and I must say they sound as if they 're rather exciting , ’ Lucy said with a certain amount of truth . |
| 3 | The acrid smell of smoke clung about the place , black smudges streaking the walls and the floor where a fire had burned itself out . |
| 4 | Hamish gazed about the place . |
| 5 | Mothers are all right , I suppose , you 'd miss them fussing about the place , but ould fellows are like that hind tits of a cow – no good for use or ornament . |
| 6 | Insufferably put , and probably not his own thought but something he has read , out of one of his damned French books that his father loathed seeing about the place — he had a phenomenal memory for things he had read . |
| 7 | He soons starts squawking and wiping his eye and stamping about the place but if he 's like that all the while to them so what is . |
| 8 | The yard was squalid and run down , the lads slouched about the place resentfully , the tack was old and dirty with repair patches showing on almost every item of leather . |
| 9 | If they had to stay they moved about the place like shadows . |
| 10 | Well erm made models with stones and other rubbish that we found about the place and a whole pile of had still standing . |
| 11 | What use were services that recalled the Crucifixion when there was Timothy Gedge wandering about the place , a far better reminder of waste and destruction ? |
| 12 | ‘ She always had the rubber gloves on as she clucked about the place , ’ recalls Carolyn . |
| 13 | Sometimes in the evenings she had too strong a sense of being locked into the life of the farmhouse , even with the door continuously open on the summer yard , her brother away in the fields , her mother stumbling about the place with buckets , leaning on the table or the back of a chair whenever she stood to talk . |
| 14 | The mother you could see about the place , hurrying on the streets of Dynmouth , a woman with brass-coloured hair who sold clothes in a shop . |
| 15 | The room was untouched by her presence — no suitcase , no clothes lying about the place . |
| 16 | Going about the place telling everyone what a fine fellow you are does little to improve your image . |
| 17 | Bags of coloured wools are pegged on to scaffolding near the machine and sample lengths of fabric and felted scarves are swagged about the place . |
| 18 | And I 'm sending all this lot off that did n't get sent off , and contacting I 'm being contacted about the place . |
| 19 | Tuppe glanced about the place . |
| 20 | And something brisk to take you bowling about the place . |
| 21 | He 'll learn there 's more to being a man than hunting and lolling about the place . |
| 22 | There was a strange feel about the place as though somebody or something was watching . |
| 23 | There was a cold , unlived-in , unloved feel about the place . |
| 24 | We heard that some rich kids just ignored their fines ; theirs will have been the Porsche 928s we saw about the place . |
| 25 | The empty ornamental pond was choked with rotten leaves , starlings blew about the place like avian litter . |
| 26 | When , for example , I was interviewing Moonies , I would ask them to describe their childhood and see whether religion was mentioned , then ask about the place of religion in their lives and see what kind of response I received before posing more specific questions about church going , belief in God , confirmation , the religious beliefs and practices of their parents — and so on . |
| 27 | I often wished later that I had named Trotsky instead , because his principles were more in accord with the way I felt about the place by the time I left , but at that time I had never even heard of him . |
| 28 | He spent a lot of time swaggering about the place , flexing his muscles and telling everyone what he was going to do with those ‘ foolish little feller-me-lads ’ if they showed up . |
| 29 | In fact the woman was fed up with the smell that the tomcat caused about the place and was glad to be shot of it . |
| 30 | Internationally , there were already questions being asked about the place of sport in a time of war . |