Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] about [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say ‘ by great good luck ’ , because the Turkish authorities do not like foreigners wandering about in the neighbourhood of frontiers , particularly the Russian frontier . |
| 2 | Not only that , there was the auto-suggestion of two tiny Spanish brats splashing about in the pond in front of the green , fishing for lost balls . |
| 3 | When they complain about ‘ stress ’ they are not saying they want to spend the rest of their lives lazing about in the sun being brought rum bamboozles on a silver tray ( though the idea has its appeal ) . |
| 4 | Ruining your good trousers wriggling about on the ground . |
| 5 | They first recorded the vervets ' call and then played them through loud-speakers to free-living monkeys moving about on the ground . |
| 6 | He scanned the dark figures moving about in the blackness , saw the odd flash-bulb explode as tourists took pictures of one of the capital 's most famous landmarks . |
| 7 | He already had two of the things clinking about on the back seat . |
| 8 | But we suspect it was found necessary to place the Monkeys ' Dance where the score has it in order to allow time for setting this exotic scene — and six dancers cavorting about on the forestage could make a useful amount of noise to mask what was happening on the darkened scenic stage behind the proscenium arch . |
| 9 | Do not leave peels lying about in the laboratory before mounting or filing them : they attract dust and lint and are easily scratched . |
| 10 | It 's a fine sunny day in August — but where are all the loafers lyin' about on the grass ? ’ |
| 11 | There is a slight drizzle falling through the trees and most of the mosquitoes have gone , except one or two persistent little bastards buzzing about inside the trench . |
| 12 | I can picture the convoy now : the little navigating jeep in front , the solid three-tonners rolling along steadily , and the jeeps scampering about at the back . |
| 13 | I 've often seen toddlers jumping about in the back of cars ahead of me . |
| 14 | The cucullati were strange twilight creatures flitting about in the under-growth and the skirtings of a house , but seen as a potent element of the life-force with their phallic hoods and the garments usually worn by small children . |
| 15 | The referee looks for open hands fluttering about in the opponent 's face , because they all too often ‘ accidentally ’ catch the opponent 's eyes . |
| 16 | Alison Hutchinson spotted the two starlings flailing about in the netting on the roof of Darlington 's Singer Sewing Centre in Bondgate . |
| 17 | There were several families under the trees now , with little children running around and babies crawling about in the grass . |
| 18 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |
| 19 | She had made it a habit never to leave medicines lying about since the time she found Emma sucking a Panadol , thinking it was a mint , but thankfully then having the sense to spit it out when she found it was n't . |
| 20 | When Johnson Matthey Bankers collapsed suddenly and unexpectedly in 1984 , there were a lot of thinly veiled accusations flying about between the Bank of England and the company 's auditors . |
| 21 | Up to half of all the meadows in the east and south of the Netherlands have been seriously damaged by flocks of crows probing about among the grass roots for grubs of a dung-dwelling beetle which have appeared in much greater concentrations than normal . |