Example sentences of "about in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Who 'd get the blame , I ask you , if some young big-head like him got larking about in that lot , and the whole thing caved in and buried him alive ? |
| 32 | She did n't have much to laugh about in 1599 . |
| 33 | And men like my husband Bernard , full of love and trust , look up to heaven with adoring eyes , victims of the phenomena of positive transference which the tortured so easily develops for his torturer , and plunge about in female flesh crying , ‘ Only procreate and all will be well . ’ |
| 34 | It 's difficult to be sure , but I 'd say he 'd been put in the water immediately after death and that he 's been tossed about in shallow water over a rocky bottom ever since . |
| 35 | At the second meeting on 9th June , Hunt was called as a witness ; he presented a paper which demonstrated that if all the Government Offices ‘ scattered about in various parts of the metropolis ’ , with the exception of the Admiralty and the Inland Revenue at Somerset House , were housed in four storeys , although architecturally ‘ hardly desirable ’ , allowing for courts and roads , they could fit into the area between Richmond Terrace , the river , Parliament Square and the park , and still leave space for expansion . |
| 36 | One of the most important changes brought about in higher education by the Education Reform Act was the removal of polytechnics from local authority control and their conversion into independent institutions in much the same position as the universities . |
| 37 | After casting about in vain for several minutes to pick up their quarry 's lost line , their frustration had abated into impatience and Satan had led the pack off in the direction of the tree-line to the westward . |
| 38 | At its meeting in February 1972 the CNAA endorsed an initiative by the Chairmen of the two bodies to suggest entering into discussions about the possibility of an amalgamation — which finally came about in 1974 . |
| 39 | Hyam believes that the sexual activities of imperialist manpower have been erased from the historical record , or else written about in stereotyped ways which had little to do with reality , and that we are therefore left with an incomplete understanding of the colonial experience . |
| 40 | The latter are easier to lay , but you need a thicker layer , of about 150mm , to get the same insulation performance as a 100mm thick layer of blanket , and they can blow about in draughty lofts . |
| 41 | The animals are often very large , and they frequently go about in great herds . |
| 42 | In the mess , speculation had buzzed about in hushed whispers , knowing , secretive nods . |
| 43 | Skulking about in private passages , listening at doors , betraying your rightful queen . ’ |
| 44 | My name had been bandied about in recent weeks , ever since the ban was reduced by two years . |
| 45 | THIS BOUGHT-in piece of Canadian whimsy was basically five minutes of real rodents travelling about in tiny boats , with voices provided by future Animal Magic guru Johnny Morris . |
| 46 | People still think a poet is a person who prances about in frilly shirts and things , and the fucking poets you see on television read like it 's a grocery list : ‘ The frog leapt over the moon , I want some cheese soon . ’ |
| 47 | Saturday afternoon shoppers shared the pavements with soldiers in iron-grey over-coats wandering about in twos and threes . |
| 48 | Behind them the elderly people poked their way about in twos and threes , careful on the concrete surface . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Logic needs to account for logical relations among sentences the sort that we 'll learn about in elementary symbolic logic . |
| 51 | Loss of citizenship may be brought about in three ways , naturalization in a foreign country , in case of double citizenship , declaration of renunciation of British citizenship , revocation of a certificate of naturalization . |
| 52 | What was the training about in those pre-war days ? |
| 53 | In view of the slowness with which changes of mental outlook came about in those days , it is not surprising that even after the introduction of the mechanical clock in the fourteenth century most people , including many of the more sophisticated , were far less concerned in their daily life with the passage of time than we are . |
| 54 | There were not the multitude of motorcars about in those days , as there are now , but that was one of the firms that was trying to make it , and has done it , like that . |
| 55 | Although in retrospect it might seem a vain hope to disguise ourselves as a motor yacht , we were not well known in the area and there were , after all , quite a few converted HDML 's about in those days , so we removed a few obvious identification marks from the ship including our uniforms , flew the red ensign and settled down to wait . |
| 56 | But erm yes sometimes you 'd , you 'd get there in time but you see they 'd just , I , there , there were n't the telephones about in those days so you , you , you could n't , everybody did n't have a phone , they could n't ring in an and say I 'm in labour . |
| 57 | While the rest of Britain fopped about in lace-fronted pinafores and all the other collected frippery of the New Romanticism , NME smashed you in the teeth with Henry Rollins ' forearm . |
| 58 | And that was a delightful and most alarming sensation , when the long , airy arms of the West Wind reached down through the trees and caught him up , and the leaves were all shivering and clattering and trembling with her passing , and the straws danced before the house and the dust rose and flew about in little earth-fountains . |
| 59 | The decks are a little more lively , with the genuinely and partially recovered sitting about in little groups , eyeing me accusingly whenever I pass . |
| 60 | 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 . |