Example sentences of "[verb] about at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend and I were driving in spring to Crarae gardens near Inveraray so I could salivate over the rhododendrons , but we grew tired of travelling at seven miles an hour behind clods in caravans and on reaching the Rest And Be Thankful pulled into the side to wander about at the base of Beinn an Lochain . |
| 2 | For some unexplained reason you were still lurking about at a time when , normally , you would long since have gone home . ’ |
| 3 | The housekeeper had looked about at her own handiwork with an apologetic air . |
| 4 | Walking about at night in the streets of Calcutta and of necessity stepping over emaciated bodies too lethargic to move , or visiting refugee shacks in beautiful Hong Kong , or standing helplessly in the filthy slums of Kampala , always the same agony and anger assailed me as it did on that cold morning in Kiel . |
| 5 | Tess seemed like a queen to Clare , perhaps because he knew that she was the most beautiful woman walking about at this time of day . |
| 6 | The bleeper attached to his belt suddenly shrilled into life and after silencing it he eased the hook from the mouth of the pike thrashing about at his feet and brushed it back into the water with the side of his boot . |
| 7 | The track along Rhossili Down 's ridge top was rough and rocky , with a wild west sort of feel to it as a few hardy-looking cattle wandered about at will on the humped and pitted pastures to the right , which my map indicated are the remains of neolithic burial chambers . |
| 8 | ‘ The first thing to remember is that 99 per cent of the people you come into contact with are people whom you do n't have to worry about at all . |
| 9 | Nothing to worry about at all . ’ |
| 10 | In fact , our Multivitamin Liquid leaves you with hardly anything to worry about at all . |
| 11 | I think Madam yeah she complains Madam of er scratches to her arms and bruises to her upper arms where he allegedly grabbed hold of her erm and that really is it , nothing to worry about at all . |
| 12 | Erm so er is there anything else we need to worry about at this stage do you think ? |
| 13 | Mr Welt sneaked about at night and removed all the wooden furniture in the school and replaced it with metal furniture . |
| 14 | Within seconds he had been substituted and within minutes a goal almost came about at the other end . |
| 15 | If it is obvious that US policy towards Indo-China could not be considered in isolation from its policy towards the rest of Asia , it is even more obvious that the integration of US policy for Vietnam came about at the same time as the disintegration of its policy towards China : the most traumatic episode in US power-war policies in Asia , at least until the outbreak of the Korean war . |
| 16 | The switch to a more deliberate emphasis on the way in which all the inhabitants of an area depend upon one another came about at least in part because of developments in social evolutionism . |
| 17 | ‘ Okay , ’ she said , looking about at the others , ‘ what comes next ? ’ |
| 18 | He halted before it , looking about at the relentless blackness with an expression of distaste , pursing the fine lips that were visible below the hat . |
| 19 | Looking about at the crowd of faces , she tried to discover who was watching her . |
| 20 | Behind the gothic-arch pigeon hole , counting out change , she saw the man in boots , the man who had hung about at Faith 's funeral . |
| 21 | But he was the same , odd man , who had hung about at the church in boots at Faith Lavender 's funeral . |
| 22 | so we 've got nothing to grumble about at all really . |
| 23 | The only person that I know about at the playhouse is Gordon . |
| 24 | The fun to be had by larking about at school would be a contrast with the grind of labouring jobs . |
| 25 | The boulders which God had flung about at the time of the creation had , to Lydia 's eyes , a patriarchal air , and the pebbles which littered the stream seemed like little children confidently at rest in this fatherly presence . |
| 26 | The guillotine motion after 10 o'clock tonight will attempt to preclude sensible contributions , attempt to preclude people from dealing with the difficulties and technicalities in the Bill , and pose a real problem for those of us who believe that local government is not a political football to be kicked about at whim , but an essential part of our democracy for the provision of essential services . |
| 27 | Ace glanced about at the peculiar angles that joined the walls to the floor and ceiling . |
| 28 | Blackbirds , sparrows , robins , and other birds whose names Vic does n't know , skip and hop about at a discreet distance from the magpies . |
| 29 | The sharp white lights of the television crew picked out the shards of the Worm , blowing about at the bottom of the pit until they became transparent and brittle , breaking into thousands of tiny pieces . |
| 30 | The system begins with its protozoa jiggling about at random , but after a few generations , they evolve into a race of protozoa which tend to move in straight lines . |