Example sentences of "about by the wind " in BNC.
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| 1 | He preached to the World Scout Jamboree and was blamed by the Daily Telegraph for reading his sermon to a multitude of boys and that the notes were too visible when they were blown about by the wind . |
| 2 | The men would risk being scattered on landing and the pilots would find it difficult to navigate because of the sand being blown about by the wind . |
| 3 | Her hair is blown about by the wind , for it is cropped like a charity girl 's : her arms are bare servile arms , touched with redness and roughness : she carries a pail in either hand . |
| 4 | The rain fell in tiny , miserable droplets that were blown about by the wind . |
| 5 | Then there are the heavy cargo barges puttering this way and that , languid helmsmen at their sterns , eager dogs , all blown about by the wind , tongues lolling , in the prow . |