Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] about [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I said I 'd seen Sam hanging about on the towpath with a bunch of yobs . ’ |
| 2 | I 've often seen toddlers jumping about in the back of cars ahead of me . |
| 3 | I say ‘ by great good luck ’ , because the Turkish authorities do not like foreigners wandering about in the neighbourhood of frontiers , particularly the Russian frontier . |
| 4 | In an effort to avoid delays brought about by the technical procedures of the district courts , police court decisions were not subject to appeal and lawyers were barred from appearing in trials . |
| 5 | She had made it a habit never to leave medicines lying about since the time she found Emma sucking a Panadol , thinking it was a mint , but thankfully then having the sense to spit it out when she found it was n't . |
| 6 | Fred White and Sandy , the friend he had agreed to meet here , sat on the shore and watched people splashing about in the water . |
| 7 | Do not leave peels lying about in the laboratory before mounting or filing them : they attract dust and lint and are easily scratched . |
| 8 | The thing is this : when you play a note on any guitar , you create an overtone series , and those overtone series come about through the string vibrating in properly divided lengths . |