Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] about [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story got about over the years that his lectures were very obscure . |
| 2 | Ducks swam about on the lake , beside which we would sometimes sit of a summer evening after supper , before going back on duty . |
| 3 | As I walked round the lake , a flotilla of ducks paddled furiously after me , hoping to be fed , while fieldfares fluttered about on the lawns . |
| 4 | Richard moved about in the bathroom ; the light hurt my eyes so I turned on my stomach and hid my face in the pillow . |
| 5 | His front paws rested on the heather as his back legs thrashed about in the dog-sized hole . |
| 6 | Donna twisted about in the bath , sending water sloshing over the edge and on to the cork-tiled floor . |
| 7 | Marie hung about in the middle of the road , looking in . |
| 8 | Gaveston bustled about in the darkness , found a tinder , and a cresset torch flared into life . |
| 9 | I WATCHED in horror as a huge black bear nosed about in the handlebar baskets of my bike yards away . |
| 10 | Changes in pension provision came about with the passing of the Social Security Act 1986 and the Finance ( No. 2 ) Act 1987 . |
| 11 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 12 | Peace came about in the 1680s through Teleut exhaustion . |
| 13 | It was Marian who picked up a broken cross-bow from the debris piled about on the roof and held it out to Allen . |
| 14 | A pure white butterfly tossed about in the light on the edge of the lake . |
| 15 | As Carol Jackson moved about in the kitchen she could hear the steady burble of conversation , punctuated every so often by a laugh . |
| 16 | The move came about under the stimulus of ‘ national debate on educational standards , finance and accountability ’ . |
| 17 | Today flotillas of contented shovelers , tufted duck , gad wall and golden eye bobbed about outside the hide in their secluded sanctuary . |
| 18 | The feathers moved about in the current of air that blew in under the door . |
| 19 | A distinguished backing band , including Dave Edmunds and Presley 's one-time guitarist , James Burton , knocked out a few appropriate standards while a video crew wandered about on the stage shining lights at an audience that had not paid to be treated as studio extras . |
| 20 | Liberal thinkers welcomed the view that evolution came about through the accumulation of animals ' efforts to conquer their environment , since this implied that the social progress resulting from commercial activity was a direct continuation of Nature 's development . |
| 21 | ( b ) If the producer can prove that the defect came about after the time of supply by him , this will provide a defence ( s. 4(1) ( d ) ) . |
| 22 | Some changes came about on the death of Henry VIII , when the General Surveyors were absorbed into Augmentations , but it was apparent that more drastic reforms were needed . |
| 23 | Our small cortège milled about in the courtyard near the large double-barred gate of the palace . |
| 24 | Such imagery belies the notion bandied about during the 1992 Columbiade of a prelapsarian New World civilisation infected by war-mongering Europeans . |
| 25 | Now if I were to suggest to you that in some gay bars the ‘ lads ’ pop off to the toilets that number of times to indulge themselves , then you might think I was repeating lurid propaganda put about by the puritan league . |
| 26 | Here and there a few people moved about amongst the chicken coops and the junk : a girl chasing a goose into a pen , a boy flying a kite . |
| 27 | Many years ago Gross and his colleagues found neurons at higher levels in the visual pathway in which the vigour of the response varied strongly with details of the shape of an object moved about in the visual field . |
| 28 | Ace glanced about at the peculiar angles that joined the walls to the floor and ceiling . |
| 29 | Probably the notorious case of some rail coaches being moved by road came about in the same way . |
| 30 | The 1970s LP reissues came about through the vision and advocacy of Jerrold Northrop Moore , who knew how important Elgar 's recorded performances were to an understanding of the composer and his music . |