Example sentences of "[vb -s] about [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If our bat is Myotis , one of the common little brown bats , we shall hear a chuntering of clicks at a rate of about 10 per second as the bat cruises about on a routine mission . |
| 2 | Just lies about on the beach all day and fucks every female in sight . |
| 3 | If he hits one then he bounds about inside the unit , bouncing from foe to foe , until he spins out of the other side , leaving the enemy completely devastated . |
| 4 | The interviewer who changes questions , who adds bits to questions , who generally messes about with the schedule , is not being clever , he/she is being a bad fieldworker . |
| 5 | How true were the observations of Ecclesiastes : ‘ The wind goeth towards the south and turneth about into the north : it whirleth about continually and the wind returneth again according to his circuits . ’ |
| 6 | a rather simple girl who hangs about on the outskirts of a village … |
| 7 | Her minds flits about like a butterfly , settling on one thing , and flying off again at once . ) |
| 8 | A germ , there 's a germ that floats about in the air and if it gets onto the skin when it 's broken . |
| 9 | For her efforts , Riddler wins an exemption from military service for her son , Attila , a delicate type who slopes about in a dressing gown , wringing his hands . |
| 10 | Victor paces about for a bit . |
| 11 | One more piece of information you should possess before the tale unfolds is that Michael was encased in two leg callipers as a result of polio — contracted when one year old — and walked , or rather surges about with the aid of two crutches . |
| 12 | There seems to be some poetry rattling about in there , rather as air rattles about in the bowels , but to get it out with a proper report — that 's the trick ! |
| 13 | Any recreation which means continually trying to understand other people ( for example , the small group when the conversation rushes about like a squashball ) is very far from recreation . |
| 14 | Licensed dealers still deal in certain shares the punter reads about in the tip sheets . |
| 15 | He dances about among the crowd , greeting people here and there by stamping yellow rice marks on their foreheads with the thumb of his other hand . |
| 16 | Even in our short journey the taxi driver had spoken of the soukoyant , the witch who takes off her skin at night and flies about like a bat . |
| 17 | Gandhi cites the example of a man who in a fit of madness goes about with a sword in his hand killing indiscriminately . |
| 18 | If there are steps , he may need handrails if he is walking , or a ramp if he moves about in a wheelchair . |
| 19 | Columbus crashes about outside the cathedral waving a wineskin . |
| 20 | Sister Act pairs Whoopi with another Oscar-winning actress Maggie Smith in a tale of a nun on the run and the change of fortunes she brings about in the convent where she seeks sanctuary . |
| 21 | All this comes about at a time when the future of GMAG is under review . |
| 22 | Behaviour comes about as a result of the interaction of these mental processes with each other and with the environmental stimuli that are constantly impinging upon our sensory systems . |
| 23 | It comes about as a result of our gratitude to God for his wiping out of a colossal debt that we could never have paid back ( Matt. |
| 24 | Therefore any adjustment which comes about as a result of an increase in the money supply will probably take place first of all through purchases of short-term , highly liquid financial assets such as Treasury bills and bank bills . |
| 25 | civilization come about , and in this book he gives part of the answer , and concentrates on that , and part of the answer he gives is , that it comes about through the institutions of religion . |
| 26 | The interaction comes about through the polarization of the electron cloud of the molecule by the oscillating electric vector of the incident quantum ( Fig. 5.5 ) . |
| 27 | Adrian become–the over-protective parent to his miserable father and although we can understand how this behaviour comes about in a child whose parents are asserting their own needs , who are themselves needy children , it nevertheless feels funny , feels inappropriate . |
| 28 | Leadership comes about in a number of different ways . |
| 29 | We must assume that the young child 's acquisition of language comes about in the context of expanding experience , of expanding possible interpretations of forms like here and now in different contexts of situation , contexts which come to be recognised , and stored as types . |
| 30 | That transformation comes about by the renewing of our individual minds , a change wrought from the inside , so that all that is weakest , pained and most fragmented within us becomes strengthened and renewed by the truth and love of God ( cf. |