Example sentences of "around about " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a fair deal of Oxbridge waffle around about history being ‘ a training of the mind ’ , a means of understanding the other chap 's point of view . |
| 2 | Everyone has heard that there is a big buzz going around about one band or another , but what does that mean ? |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been asking around about Werner , who interviewed you about the accident . |
| 4 | A joke went around about a passer-by who saw a man drowning in a canal . |
| 5 | In Chiswick , the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Bennett Street , had been badly damaged , along with a considerable area of old properties around about , i.e. Hogarth Lane , Wood Street , Hunt Street and the southern end of Devon.shire Road . |
| 6 | This warm current generally flows around about Christmas time ( which in the southern hemisphere of course is in summer ) and so the local people call it ‘ El Niño ’ , which means ‘ the little child ’ , referring to the Christ child . |
| 7 | Word had already gone around about the sex sequence , and there was also some interest in the political content , coming as it did shortly after the attempts at peace in Vietnam and Nixon 's pledge to end the war . |
| 8 | You could ask around about Jack Butler , Ibn Fayoud , Dad 's dodgy contacts from his riding days . |
| 9 | We 'll iron out any problems we have , and ideally aim to implement the summer clubs with their own computer systems around about late May . ’ |
| 10 | I like mountains around about the 6000 , lower 7000m range . |
| 11 | ‘ Though I 've got to tell you there 's some gossip going around about the cousin you 've got staying . ’ |
| 12 | I asked around about him as a player and they said he was ‘ rough and fearless ’ . ’ |
| 13 | And , it promises to tell ‘ a much wider tale than just XPG4 ’ at around about the same time . |
| 14 | Around about the period when Monsieur Henri Mignet and his incredible Pou du Ciel , or ‘ Flying Flea ’ , was captivating the Great British Public 's imagination with his aeronautical exploits in a home-made aeroplane , several American inventors were offering much the same aerial excitement to their own countrymen , but with rather more ‘ conventional ’ designs . |
| 15 | His anxious parents asked around about tutorial colleges , visited three , and chose Davies Laing & Dick in Kensington . |
| 16 | This can be attributed to a number of factors : the increased availability of street heroin in Wirral during the early 1980s ; the periodic droughts of pot and speed at around about the same time ( some of the users suggested a direct relation between these phenomena ) ; the existence of large numbers of users initiated in the 1978–81 period who acted both as models to emulate and who were also probably the first dealers the new initiates came into contact with . |
| 17 | That way it will look as if you 've been asking around about me . ’ |
| 18 | but it 's also linked , I mean the other thing that I 've got at the back of my mind , is a kind of nightmare , is that when we were talking about the Festival around about March that you know , we spoke to Ingy er you know as a group and then that was all fine and we kept er going along and then , and then there was that sort of dreadful phone call I had from Linda along the lines as I 'm not sure if I 've got any describers |
| 19 | He said Daphne even though she is married now I am willing to forget the bad talks that were going around about him being foolish and wanting her back . |
| 20 | There are also those old myths still around about when you do n't get pregnant — like if it 's your first time , or if you have sex infrequently , or if you do it standing up . |
| 21 | I think it 's the around about the first or the second of April . |
| 22 | In the su around about this area , the the local housing estates , a great many of our investing members just live practically round the corner , so we get to know them very well . |
| 23 | ‘ Craig has to be remote because of all the stuff that flies around about him and Rachel . ’ |
| 24 | Real love : ‘ A lot of stuff flies around about Craig and Rachel ’ , says Jo |
| 25 | For a moment , in my panic , I thought about swinging the ship around about and getting out . |
| 26 | So when all these changes were going , going on with the , the machinery , the , the bonus system etcetera etcetera you , you think there were other facilities arose around about the same time which made the work environment still more er still better if you like ? |
| 27 | ‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm — |
| 28 | ‘ Rumours are going around about the bread It is making , the increase in circulation , the increase in ads , and yet that cat is still hustling for bread . ’ |
| 29 | Disk Compression/doubling — there have been rumours flying around about this facility for quite some time . |
| 30 | So he gave me a baler and I did all of Ork around about Birsay and Sanday and round the area here and baled their hay to them . |