Example sentences of "about [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When he was playing he strutted about like the rooster in the chicken run . |
| 2 | Then he hangs from one hand while feeling about with the other in his chalk-bag . |
| 3 | I tried all the channels from 1 to 40 in case the hijackers had been messing about with the rig in the truck , but still got nothing . |
| 4 | By this time stress waves are probably racing about in the material in all directions at the speed of sound ( that is faster than the crack ) , being reflected off both old and new surfaces , and we are likely to end up with not one crack but with a great many . |
| 5 | The runaway Prince Leonce and his veminous , thieving philosphical sparring partner Valerio , after pawning their clothes for food , loaf about in the forest in long johns swapping paradoxes like two men waiting for Godot . |
| 6 | Not only that , there was the auto-suggestion of two tiny Spanish brats splashing about in the pond in front of the green , fishing for lost balls . |
| 7 | And it is her intuition that she is dependent on for finding just the right thing to muse about to the class in front of her . |
| 8 | She writhed about on the floor in agony . |
| 9 | Today flotillas of contented shovelers , tufted duck , gad wall and golden eye bobbed about outside the hide in their secluded sanctuary . |
| 10 | But he was the same , odd man , who had hung about at the church in boots at Faith Lavender 's funeral . |
| 11 | This has been brought about by the increase in unemployment and the abolition of the statutory minimum wage , together with a programme of Government ministers exalting employers to reduce wage settlements , particularly for the low-paid . |
| 12 | Aitken 's prosecution under the Official Secrets Act — alongside Mr Brian Roberts , the much-respected editor of the Sunday Telegraph — was brought about by the publication in that paper in January 1970 of an article quoting extracts from the Scott Report . |
| 13 | Even then , we rarely realize that many ailments are directly , or indirectly , brought about by the way in which we think and move . |
| 14 | The government 's financial planning had been badly affected by an economic crisis brought about by the slump in the world price of coffee — which accounted for 90 per cent of Rwanda 's export earnings — following the collapse of the International Coffee Agreement in July [ see pp. 36836 ] . |
| 15 | A further change in the nature of the labour market is being brought about by the decline in the strength of the trade unions . |
| 16 | An important change in the balance within the industrial movement , and hence within the Labour Party , was brought about by the decline in numbers and influence of the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain . |
| 17 | At a deeper level the concentration of economic power brought about by the growth in the size of companies and the oligopolistic nature of product markets undermined some of the traditional justifications for private ownership itself . |