Example sentences of "[v-ing] about in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 2 | The twins , David and Michael , had been prowling about in the front garden waiting for the sight of Belinda 's car , and as soon as she stepped out into the driveway and came up the path to the house they raced ahead of her inside to relay the news of her arrival , without even saying hello to her . |
| 3 | Of all the great canards quacking about in the European propaganda lake , none is more easily shot out of the water than the one about German federalists . |
| 4 | The kids are larking about in the steam-filled room , and the girl seems grateful for adult conversation . |
| 5 | People moving about in the dead of night , poisons being administered in a locked room . |
| 6 | ‘ Somebody 's moving about in the locked room , ’ I thought . |
| 7 | Suddenly , behind her , the stage explodes into life -50 people milling about in the bawdy chaos of a red light area . |
| 8 | The market was in full swing as they made their way slowly round the piazza , the Brigadier leaning on the horn to make a path through the jumble of cars and people milling about in the bright but fitful sunshine . |
| 9 | On the assumption that he or she might not have carried the murder weapon away Wycliffe had ordered a search of the foreshore , and a police frogman was floundering about in the shallow off-shore waters like a porpoise on the point of stranding . |
| 10 | As I was saying earlier , paper qualifications can not guarantee to exclude the kind of evil that we have been reading about in the past few weeks . |
| 11 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 12 | She gave Charles the address , and looked so happy and excited when she asked the Stage Door Keeper to get her the Wimbledon number , that he quite forgave her for keeping him hanging about in the draughty passage outside his box . |
| 13 | The carrack was brought to anchor in the Bay of Cascais two evenings later , and after an uncomfortable night rolling about in the confused waters of that harbour , Sara rose early and went on deck to find that a thick mist had descended . |
| 14 | A lot of walkers take this fact for granted , striding about in the sure and certain knowledge that nothing will drop from a tree and start to devour their head . |
| 15 | Our young Tominah friend had disappeared by sunset , and it was well after dark by the time Abu returned , together with Ranteallo , jerking about in the front seat like a clownish version of his own Tau-Tau . |