Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heady scent of blossom had hung about the churchyard . |
| 2 | So Adam slipped out of Castell Coch at dusk , and himself carried the word to Owen in his camp in the woods overlooking Cegidfa ; and a beggar who had hung about the gates for some days and been fed from the kitchens went after him every step of the way . |
| 3 | Every young ram in the village had hung about the place , hunting for what they called a bit of moss . |
| 4 | As the man who had emerged to lead France out of the abyss of June 1940 , he could hardly countenance a return to the errors that had brought about the débcle . |
| 5 | Public disapproval had brought about the resignation of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party 's corrupt kingmaker , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 6 | A delegation travelled to Lisbon to present their case ; FLEC-Renewal president José Tiburcio Luemba called on Portugal to revise the agreements which had brought about the independence of Angola in 1975 , and said that his movement would carry on an armed struggle until independence for Cabinda had been achieved . |
| 7 | But Wyatt 's death , almost as surely as the destruction of the starship , The New Hope , had brought about the War that followed . |
| 8 | The chronicler William of Newburgh was disposed to believe that King Sverre of Norway had brought about the destruction of King Magnus 's fleet in 1186 by invoking the Devil . |
| 9 | In the event , the coup discredited the draft treaty and led to a series of declarations of republican independence which , by the end of the year , had brought about the demise of the USSR as such . |