Example sentences of "[noun pl] go about " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a few tackles going about , but some people like their football like that . ’ |
| 2 | I saw Jews going about and thought of Daisy and Joszef this fourth Christmas of their marriage . |
| 3 | At this point we may ask how it is that speakers go about creating linguistically the persona which they animate at any one particular time . |
| 4 | How do social workers go about investigating these complaints , and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused ? |
| 5 | Traditionally , psychologists go about assessing children 's capabilities by using some standardized experimental task . |
| 6 | A survey of 140 heads , deputies and careers teachers by a marketing consultancy found that 54 per cent thought that businesses went about recruiting school-leavers ‘ not very well ’ or ‘ very badly ’ . |
| 7 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 8 | Nothing , compared to some of the prices going about in here ! |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the ambiguities remain and contribute to the uncertainty with which the CMHT members go about and account for their own work . |
| 10 | The two men went about readying for flight , with practised , unspoken efficiency . |
| 11 | " The women going about in the streets showing their nakedness to everyone who passes . |
| 12 | For that matter the whole process of reaching an annual bookfund figure is usually somewhat arbitrary , and the foregoing comments may be taken more as background than as an analysis of the way chief librarians go about reaching a total . |