Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] about [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're working on them , but everyone moved about so much except poor young Mr Vickers , who was in his workroom all the time . ’ |
| 2 | She gently reminded me that on being in the same room as a baby , the same borough , I became about as relaxed and spontaneous as any old member of the royal family being introduced to Lech Walesa . |
| 3 | I suppose on the studio engineer evolutionary scale I rate about as high as the average amoeba , which makes me the perfect test pilot for this series of videos . |
| 4 | Cos I looked , I looked about over sixteen . |
| 5 | Stuck in the middle of the Oxfordshire countryside with hundreds of noisy incomprehensible children and colleagues who make me feel about as comfortable as a walk in the rain . |
| 6 | The glazed window which came about almost 2,000 year s ago was a luxury which only the privileged few enjoyed . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that she sings about uniquely female experience , she denies having feminist leanings . |
| 8 | ‘ You seem about as forthcoming as she was , Mr Barnett . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't want you limping about too much , not now your ankle 's on the mend . ’ |
| 10 | She felt about as poised as a baby elephant taking his first steps , she thought miserably . |
| 11 | ‘ We achieved about as satisfactory a report as we could have hoped for and that has helped us enormously in developing the future of the organisation . |
| 12 | As the new President of the Board of Education , R. A. Butler , put it , in delightful contrast to his officials ' rather ponderous concern , ‘ Children are human and if they run about too much do n't put on weight . |
| 13 | He looks about as friendly as an anaconda with belly-ache from too much goat-swallowing . |
| 14 | I was ready to fight him after this , but he danced about so much that I could n't get close to him . |
| 15 | He seems about as straight-forward a citizen as ever foreclosed on a widow and fifteen orphans not a hint of creepy-crawliness no European connections , not even any gaps . ’ |