Example sentences of "about for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean really useful , not just waiting about for the next piffling stage part . ’ |
| 2 | But the only , I think the only course he 'll pass is mucking about course , let's see who can muck about for the next three years the most . |
| 3 | He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days . |
| 4 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |
| 5 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |
| 6 | He thought suddenly of how she must look , seen from inside the kitchen she was leaning out of ; an ugly sexual idea occurred to him , and he looked about for the big black BMW bike , but it was n't there . |
| 7 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 8 | However , the results — far from presenting a more ‘ acceptable ’ picture of English housing — bore out everything that housing experts had been warning the government about for the past few years of increasing housing cuts . |