Example sentences of "and [v-ing] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorothea wiped her eyes and blew her nose and looked around her , at the overcoated figures , huddled and sneezing about the table-tennis table under the Vestry lights . |
| 2 | He soons starts squawking and wiping his eye and stamping about the place but if he 's like that all the while to them so what is . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'll be running back to his cow of a wife now and laughing about the way he conned the owner 's wife . ’ |
| 4 | the lack of knowledge and understanding about the basis for allocation ; |
| 5 | The parents needed not only extensive marital therapy but also to realize that Suzy needed sympathy and understanding about the distress she felt when her parents argued . |
| 6 | Nor is it in keeping with the call in the Health of the Nation for better information and understanding about the burden of mental illness . |
| 7 | The project seeks to develop theory and understanding about the behaviour of urban land prices in low and middle-income residential districts of contemporary Third World cities . |
| 8 | So presumably , other creatures are simply talking and communicating about the world according to their particular mind configurations . |
| 9 | They emerged as I began thinking about and writing about the data I collected . |
| 10 | Quiss said suddenly , sitting upright and looking about the room . |
| 11 | His mind seems currently more on organising Hollywood-type weddings , extended holidays and wondering about the legality of the World Cup draw . |
| 12 | He was as sensitive about his body as a proud owner of its pet 's and was perpetually asking her to look inside his ear to see whether there was something amiss — she saw nothing but pink perfection — and wondering about the freshness of his lungs in the atmosphere — she assumed that they were like his ears — and surveying the immaculateness , the flatness of his belly in her long wall mirror with its carved , wooden frame . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , Mum , ’ said Camille , cool with the confidence of the adolescent who knows that the rules of mortality , the risks inherent in living and going about the world , do not apply to her . |
| 14 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
| 15 | Towards the end of this time , the mother looks as though she has a bunch of pink grapes on her underside and clambering about the branches or running over uneven ground not only becomes awkward for her but looks distinctly uncomfortable for her young . |
| 16 | These include preparing a package for approval and enquiring about the status of various QA activities . |
| 17 | Early March with crows tumbling and swooping about the verandah after flung crusts , scraping the air in hoarse conflict . |
| 18 | Barbecue time late on a Sunday night on the balcony , and another Embassy staffer from the floor above leaning over his parapet and complaining about the smoke . |
| 19 | She wandered around the lodge , looking patently bored , refusing to take part in activities , and complaining about the service , the primitive facilities , and the lack of time Matthew had for her . |
| 20 | I should think so when there are eight fascinating female forms in it , turning , twisting , pirouetting and corkscrewing about the stage at any one time . |
| 21 | Here 's a cheery thought for all those recovering from over-indulgence on Christmas fare and moaning about the cost . |
| 22 | He 'd no patience with women putting on airs and moaning about the most natural thing in the world . |
| 23 | She 's probably enticed a man with a beard and a lot of snotty children away from his wife , and she 'll be shacked up with them in a mobile home on the outskirts of Llangollen , cooking beans and magic mushrooms and playing the flute and moaning about the artificial restrictions of society . ’ |
| 24 | His brother David said : ‘ Chris was in tremendous spirits and bubbling about the trip . |
| 25 | He 'll learn there 's more to being a man than hunting and lolling about the place . |
| 26 | Homer is refreshingly critical about his chosen subject and questioning about the motivation behind such works as the truly horrible ‘ The Agnew Clinic ’ of 1889 which depicts a mastectomy performed in an operating theatre crowded with doctors . |
| 27 | I was present at the public meeting at Hutchison Crossway on 26 Nov. and I made some comments , warmly welcoming the proposals and asking about the upgrading of a parallel cycle route . |
| 28 | We met some lovely people — quite a few from Scotland , and our last night was spent in the company of a group of friends from Scotland , England , Ireland and Holland , having a meal in an Indian restaurant , and hearing about the scuba diving and snorkelling in the Red Sea . |
| 29 | Meeting Matthew again after sixteen years of marriage and hearing about the rest of the family — it made me realize there was something about the Glynns … – |
| 30 | Atomic particles in the cosmic rays show up as dark tracks , and then the hard work comes in interpreting them , deciphering their code , and learning about the basic entities of matter . |