Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] about [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assaulted by a tumbler of wine and the smell of much mixed nervous human activity , I was soon crawling about on several elbows , being splashed from high above by excess wine while my eyes , ears and mouth were up there and at the same level of height of depth as everyone else , adding to the massed attempt to obliterate the loud dancing music which obliterated the loud dancing which packed the conversations into pouring constipations . |
| 2 | The funeral was over , and Selene grew , soon staggering about on fat legs . |
| 3 | Oh I 'm not messing about with that |
| 4 | I 'm not messing about like that all day . |
| 5 | We ca n't go on waiting about like this . ’ |
| 6 | But he thinks Cathy and that lot are going to he thinks Cathy 's a slag and everything , yet he 's still hanging about with all you lot . |
| 7 | Modern plastics and silicones have made pipe connections so easy : no more messing about with tarred hemp and mortar , which inevitably cracked and leaked a few years later . |
| 8 | But he admitted finding Minton 's facility suspect and thought ‘ the restlessness with which he is still casting about for fresh novelties of manner suggests a certain instability . ’ |
| 9 | Now Shirley , you 're still messing about with this little job here . |
| 10 | I ai n't faffing about with one of them ! |
| 11 | On match days , there is an obvious problem — Eric is happily chasing about for all to see , so the desired mistaken identity is a non-starter . |