Example sentences of "[adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's no eventually about it , ’ came back the answer with the speed of a striking snake . |
| 2 | Try to work out the best solution to your background problem , then forget altogether about conventional seating ( one or two sofas , armchairs , occasional chairs ) . |
| 3 | He spoke powerfully about the insecurity of football and the potential dangers behind every challenge . |
| 4 | Mr Jenks marched along the corridor , glaring wrathfully about him , and the children fell back on both sides without a murmur . |
| 5 | ‘ Walked to Oakeley , thence about inspecting Railway ’ . |
| 6 | If anorexia is about identity in general , it is also specifically and most importantly about autonomy . |
| 7 | He gazed despairingly about the room . |
| 8 | There is , I know , much gnashing of teeth , banging of beer glasses etc. about the non-appearance of the Ogwen & Carneddau and Llanberis guides , but both these tomes are at least on the horizon now . |
| 9 | Bob bent down , too , and moved discreetly about picking up the more obviously feminine articles of clothing around the floor . |
| 10 | unshareably about a face |
| 11 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
| 12 | In fact what strikes me most forcibly about Lyell 's pillars is not their evidence of placid uniformitarianism but rather of episodic " catastrophism " . |
| 13 | Nancy Banks-Smith of the Guardian consistently one of the best writers in journalism today , first wrote stylishly about Hannah in 1913 , and in her review of the last film declared : |
| 14 | Sometimes he reproved her weakly about the shirts . |
| 15 | Most women care intensely about the surroundings in which they live , and their sense of security is tied up with the home ; their moods and personalities feed into the home and contribute to its atmosphere . |
| 16 | In private most managers worry intensely about how corrosive the change will be . |
| 17 | Maurice who still had n't exactly made out who he was , suddenly cared intensely about the loss . |
| 18 | He felt keenly about social issues , national and international . |
| 19 | A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’ |
| 20 | While Robyn is getting up , and getting ready for the day , thinking mostly about the nineteenth-century industrial novels on which she has to lecture this morning , I will tell you about Charles , and other salient facts of her biography . |
| 21 | This packaging of living material into discrete vehicles became such a salient and dominant feature that , when biologists arrived on the scene and started asking questions about life , their questions were mostly about vehicles — individual organisms . |
| 22 | Miss Wise was a strong supporter of the B.D.D.A. and wrote a number of articles for the British Deaf Times , mostly about travel in France . |
| 23 | Mostly about him bein' bad and me watchin' him , like . |
| 24 | Now let's imagine a sequence which is mostly about people , say a family who are spending a day on a sandy beach . |
| 25 | Mostly about the film — and they want to talk about another book . ’ |
| 26 | Actually , I talked mostly about that . |
| 27 | Last year I wrote about moonlight colours but mostly about June roses . |
| 28 | Mostly about the Groucho Club . |
| 29 | Horsley did n't think much of Thornton either , and later complained ( as did others ) that he talked mostly about himself . |
| 30 | The man himself , is quite outspoken about past and present , but mostly about the future . |