Example sentences of "about [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days . |
| 2 | Worrying his head off , scratching about for the rent , weathering one disappointment after another — it seems to have been like that all the way . |
| 3 | I mean really useful , not just waiting about for the next piffling stage part . ’ |
| 4 | Their room was in darkness and he had to fumble about for the switch to the bedside lamps . |
| 5 | There 's more to worry about for the team leaders and their directeurs sportifs . |
| 6 | However , the results — far from presenting a more ‘ acceptable ’ picture of English housing — bore out everything that housing experts had been warning the government about for the past few years of increasing housing cuts . |
| 7 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |
| 8 | Vincent decided not to hang about for the landlord , but head back on foot the way they had come . |
| 9 | Joan had taken a great liking to Alianor Woodville who , during the past restless weeks , had regaled her with colourful tales of the court in earlier days when Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth had played turn-and- turn about for the English crown . |
| 10 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |
| 11 | ‘ She should n't be out and about for the rest of the year in my view . ’ |
| 12 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 13 | The insects are out and about for the same reason as us , moving at night to beat the midday heat at the very centre of the Grand Canyon . |
| 14 | Is the family aware of the stresses and strains that will be brought about for the child and family if the child should experience rejection on the basis of colour ; can it deal with this type of problem ? |
| 15 | The report is fair in stating its case in favour of such regulations , without concealing the disadvantages which these new rules would undoubtedly bring about for the Swiss art market . |
| 16 | There is no general evidence as yet to link second home ownership with house price increases ( de Vane 1975 ) , but in local instances this has undoubtedly happened on a property-for-property basis , and it is easy to be convinced that dire housing consequences can come about for the ‘ traditional ’ rural population . |
| 17 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 18 | So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance . |
| 19 | Have I go that , have I to hang about for the re the recor the |
| 20 | He thought suddenly of how she must look , seen from inside the kitchen she was leaning out of ; an ugly sexual idea occurred to him , and he looked about for the big black BMW bike , but it was n't there . |
| 21 | Where do you look for a girl who 's nothing to do but drift about for the daylight hours ? |
| 22 | De Craon is snuffling about for the juicier morsels , then it 's back to Paris and heigh ho for Rome and our Holy Father . ’ |
| 23 | They cut off their hands so that they go about for the rest of their lives with bleeding stumps . ’ |
| 24 | Friends were able to find an alternative , but for a few moments Marilyn said she could not believe it was happening to her and looked about for the dreaded Jeremy Beadle . |
| 25 | But the only , I think the only course he 'll pass is mucking about course , let's see who can muck about for the next three years the most . |
| 26 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 27 | The idea has got about during the past three weeks that there is really not much difference between the parties , give or take the odd howl of anguish from the higher-tax-paying classes . |
| 28 | It is remarkable that the present Government have never reflected upon the great increase in public expenditure , and the substantial change in its pattern , which has come about during the past five years in consequence of their policies in the field of the social services . |
| 29 | ‘ You move about during the day ’ . |
| 30 | Such imagery belies the notion bandied about during the 1992 Columbiade of a prelapsarian New World civilisation infected by war-mongering Europeans . |