Example sentences of "about [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sort of thing you read about for a cheap thrill in the advice column of a woman 's magazine — it really happens , it happens to you . |
| 2 | In a cold fury he stood and sat about for a long time within , twice changing from chair to chair . |
| 3 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 4 | Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Hangs about for a long time , that smell . ’ |
| 6 | She checked about for a likely place of shelter . |
| 7 | He was strong , crawled about for a short while and walked quite strongly at ten months . |
| 8 | The agreement came about through a delicate set of potentially dangerous encounters between the Irish party and the Roman catholic bishops during the first two decades of the present century . |
| 9 | It came about through a negative way more extreme than has yet been suggested . |
| 10 | But the final juxtaposition , and the final breakthrough to illumination and an absolute religious certainty , comes about through a direct confrontation between the savage and the city , which proved shocking to the original audiences and retains some of its power to shock today . |
| 11 | Sherardising is another form of zinc coating , but this is brought about through a diffusing process . |
| 12 | His friend Chris would do nothing , of course , to undermine him deliberately but Patten has always been spoken about as a one-day leader . |
| 13 | So it is that when Mr Major explains that he has , by devaluing the pound , given British industry an exceptional chance to improve its exports , he insists that ‘ this did not come about as a deliberate act of policy ’ . |
| 14 | The NSA came about as a direct result of the Allied wartime successes in breaking the coded messages of both the Germans and the Japanese . |
| 15 | Much of this had come about as a direct result of the introduction of the GCSE , as these comments from the Head of Art at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ reveal : |
| 16 | However , a greater proportion of secondary school teachers than either of the other two phases tend to be unsure about whether any of these changes have come about as a direct result of the review and report . |
| 17 | All of this is coming about as a direct result of the original plan for the Local Management of Schools and it 's continuing success , in spite of the Labour Group and not because of it , and so I move the amendment my Lord Mayor . |
| 18 | THE film came about after a 14-year gap simply because Peter and Gerald were asked — by former Monty Python producer John Goldstone . |
| 19 | Here he stuck out his chest and strutted about like a professional walker setting out on a long distance race . |
| 20 | When he had joined the ship he had been nothing but eagerness and smiles , romping about like a new puppy , but now he had turned unrelentingly morose . |
| 21 | It returned , ‘ wove about like a drunken hoorie ’ in Benson 's words , and disappeared from radar south of Glasgow . |
| 22 | For his blasphemy and irresponsible behaviour , he was doomed to wander about like a sea-tossed ghost , never to rest again . |
| 23 | And then then risk the life of one of the best rabbits we 've got , just to play nursey while you go wandering about like a moon-struck field-mouse . |
| 24 | If you stopped making up your face — which is a perfectly good one and needs no camouflage — and gave up going about like a languishing lily , and got that gory stuff off your nails , you 'd be your old self again . |
| 25 | Kinky Machine 's songs sound written and rehearsed ( check ‘ Sister Magpie ’ for craftsmanship , it 's not a dying art ) — and even though Louis chucks his pale form about like a public schoolboy possessed , there is something verging on studied about his exhausting stage persona . |
| 26 | It is dragged about like a broken doll |
| 27 | Jean-Luc Roussel himself had come to the hospital and fretted and fluttered about like a true Cockney sparrow . |
| 28 | Caspar was jumping about like a mad thing . |
| 29 | Lee was prodding at the hide with a stick , Caspar leaping about like a mad thing . |
| 30 | I have hesitated about including a small section on this sort of material in a volume on book-collecting , since the ephemera umbrella seems to cover an extraordinary variety of objects ; including music hall songs , palm prints , cigarette packets , orange wrappers , ‘ peep ’ eggs , bridge score cards , menus , embroidery patterns , watchmaker 's labels , tram tickets and commemorative tins ; to say nothing of posters proclaiming the merits of various soaps , female herbal pills , bilious and liver medicaments . |