Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] about [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it does n't seem right for them to drive about like that , ’ said Sister Dew . |
| 2 | Nothing to worry about with that . |
| 3 | Nothing to worry about at all . ’ |
| 4 | I think Madam yeah she complains Madam of er scratches to her arms and bruises to her upper arms where he allegedly grabbed hold of her erm and that really is it , nothing to worry about at all . |
| 5 | The storm 's blowing over and you 've nothing to worry about except fifteen years inside . ’ |
| 6 | His chosen vehicle is this great lather of a part-comedy , part-thriller , part exercise in rappin' and blasphemin' which lurches about before collapsing face down in its own vomit . |
| 7 | Why leave them lying about like that ? |
| 8 | Another was ‘ a bit of a boss , and she moved about from one daughter to another … |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't want you bouncing about on those ruts . ’ |
| 10 | A policeman comes and says , ‘ I 've seen you wandering about from one o'clock to four o'clock , can we search your handbag , please ? ’ |
| 11 | She turned about in unashamed panic . |
| 12 | She hangs about with some erm half-ca I think she 's black but she , she 's light . |
| 13 | She fell about at one point . |
| 14 | Happily , at the time of going to print the craze is dying a death , as consumers realise that £500 is a lot to pay for something you carry about on one shoulder , and that as a social status symbol it is as impressive as a 1979 Cortina without wheels propped up on bricks . |
| 15 | so we 've got nothing to grumble about at all really . |
| 16 | Walking , for example , is an activity which as we go about in everyday life we have ceased to be aware of ; but when we dance the automatically performed gestures of walking are perceived anew . |
| 17 | If we play about with this expectations model right this is the erm , this describes the expectation of prices in T it can also use the same as a decision rule alright to find out what prices would expectation of prices were , right in in P T minus one , okay T minus one , right here . |
| 18 | Most of the reactions one learns about in elementary courses in chemistry , and also most of the reactions shown in a chart of metabolism , require the forming and breaking of ‘ covalent ’ bonds . |
| 19 | Here is William Wheeler , the last great encyclopediast of ants ( 1910 ) , describing Amazon ants at home : they sit about in stolid idleness , or pass the long hours begging the slaves for food or cleaning themselves and burnishing their ruddy armour . |
| 20 | ‘ I think all criminals know what to expect if they monkey about with other people 's motorcars . ’ |
| 21 | Er , asking if there 's anything we co , look at him walking about with that |
| 22 | But , when , when they can but you 've ju i in the Empire if you , if you 've I do n't know actually , i before they before they messed about with all the raised seating and everything , if it had been just left open like the Old Floral Hall , like it was you 'd have got seventeen |
| 23 | Dickens regards the behaviour of Mr Guppy as ‘ usual ’ in people who go over houses : ‘ They straggle about in wrong places , look at wrong things , do n't care for the right things , gape when more rooms are opened , exhibit profound depression of the spirits , and are clearly knocked up . ’ |
| 24 | The Mayor and Corporation flapped about like mud skippers and some were swirled round by the eddies and then flung on to sprawling tree roots where they hung about like wet washing . |
| 25 | Only 40% thought that there will be a united Ireland one day but few expected it in the short term — 16% expected it to come about in 25 years , 13% in 50 years and 11% in 100 years . |
| 26 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
| 27 | I do not know what the people back in Rushcliffe think about him when he messes about in this way . |
| 28 | After Gower came Nicholas , anxious to do well having missed last year 's NatWest final because of injury , and he hit about to great effect . |
| 29 | Marie , still in her pyjamas , was sitting slumped at the table that took up most of the floor space : you had to squeeze round it to move about at all in the tiny kitchen , and Marie 's legs had permanent bruises from its sharp comers . |
| 30 | 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 . |