Example sentences of "[v-ing] about [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next few years saw her and Ross out with this band of fun boaters and future rodeo aficionados though Lesley remembers having spent much of these early years bobbing about in the boils on the edge of the rough stuff , a result of lack of confidence in her own ability and perhaps not being pushed to perform by the guys in the group as much as they would each other . |
| 2 | I 'm not messin' about with no glasses . |
| 3 | Whether they are jamming the bustling streets of Kowloon , elbowing their way on to ancient trams or leaping about on the terraces at the races , Hong Kong people are enthusiasts . |
| 4 | On the surface , at least , our days passed harmoniously , eating , swimming , wandering about in the hills . |
| 5 | I often saw him wandering about in the fields and lanes or fishing in quiet reaches of the river when he should have been in school . |
| 6 | ‘ Okay , ’ she said , looking about at the others , ‘ what comes next ? ’ |
| 7 | " The women going about in the streets showing their nakedness to everyone who passes . |
| 8 | For his purpose they had to become accustomed to going about in the fields and the wood . |
| 9 | They saw Miss Lavant in a suit with buttercups on it , strolling about among the stalls , her downcast eyes occasionally glancing up . |
| 10 | Arguably he was known to Londoners less for his medical expertise than for his incredible eccentricity , which was exaggerated by a long beard , a predilection for extraordinary costume and his habit of riding about in the streets and Hyde Park on a white pony , which he sometimes painted all purple or , when the mood took him , purple with black spots . |
| 11 | Full of energy , she went up to the attic and to Philip , in his white overalls , a brave manikin moving about under the rafters . |
| 12 | Bees were moving about on the bluebells . |
| 13 | Sandy was a bit cheesed off because he could n't see whether it was a man or woman running about with no clothes on . |
| 14 | And then when it finishes you 've got all the guys coming out shouting and screaming and running about through the flats , the music never bothered me , it was just the you know the guys coming out after that bothered you . |
| 15 | Peter Berger argues that society has often been viewed as a puppet theatre with its members portrayed as ‘ little puppets jumping about on the ends of their invisible strings , cheerfully acting out the parts that have been assigned to them ’ . |
| 16 | Thinking that in years of spray-painting , of darting about near the police and taunting them with their nearness , they had been caught only when they wanted to be . |
| 17 | Gazing about at the walls flanking the quad , it was possible to calculate the exact position where Heather had been standing when she took it : the extreme south-western corner . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ Edwards is the best support player in the game but it 's no use having him hanging about in the wings when the experience could be given to a younger player . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a very nice waterfall , ’ she said defensively , adding , in case this ridiculous discussion should end in argument , ‘ I wonder who was creeping about in the woods ? ’ |
| 20 | Our last sight is of the shawl flitting about among the convicts in Siberia : not altogether happy , like many things in the Epilogue . |
| 21 | This barrier seems to be impermeable : it is unlikely that we shall ever be able directly to detect tachyons ( although there are some interesting ideas floating about concerning the consequences were we able to ) . |
| 22 | Charlie told me it was n't nothing for them to get through twenty nicker poking about in the shops . |
| 23 | Little clusters of guests were standing about on the cobblestones between the houses , looking at a loss . |
| 24 | Then she burst into a paroxysm of croaking laughter , spluttering wildly , her emaciated limbs rolling about under the covers . |
| 25 | Billy and Mary were fooling and rolling about in the sunbeams on the edge of the clearing . |
| 26 | I now decided it must be my messing about with the eggs that was causing the problem , even though John had told me this was the method he was using . |
| 27 | Not that hooligan we saw the other day the one messing about in the dodgems . ’ |
| 28 | It was a pitiful sight to watch him scrabbling about under the frames with that horrible thing chewing at his leg like an iron bulldog . |
| 29 | Alone , with most of the lights out and the cleaning ladies dotting about in the corridors , she tidied the papers on her desk for the fiftieth time . |
| 30 | Instead of spending most of his time shooting game and striding about in the parks of his estate , he should have stopped Spencer from ruining Thomas Grenfell 's life and casting a shadow on Craig 's own business . |