Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] about in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People are not normally wandering about in the bush at night . ’ |
| 2 | We were soon splashing about in the surf washing off weeks of dirt accumulated in the slit trenches . |
| 3 | It 's been dripping for weeks and Timmy 's always falling about in the mud . ’ |
| 4 | Walter de Maria has always rummaged about in the realm of the mystical and this month at Gagosian ( downtown ) until 9 May he shows his ‘ 5–7–9 ’ series , betraying a continued interest in numbers and , according to the gallery , psychic phenomenona . |
| 5 | By this time stress waves are probably racing about in the material in all directions at the speed of sound ( that is faster than the crack ) , being reflected off both old and new surfaces , and we are likely to end up with not one crack but with a great many . |
| 6 | I read reports that convoys of ‘ our boys ’ are hopelessly blundering about in the desert , completely lost within 30 miles of the Kuwaiti frontier . |
| 7 | Development planning first became widely known about in the 1950 's and since then various attempts have been made to help women , specifically , in underdeveloped countries with varying degrees of success . |
| 8 | So many of us are accustomed to eating in front of the television , or at a desk or even rushing about in the morning clutching a briefcase in one hand and a piece of toast in the other . |
| 9 | He does this by moving away from the shoal of fry and then thrashing about in the water as if injured . |
| 10 | When approached by a predatory fish , these little creatures contract their bodies and expand their papillae which they then wave about in the water . |
| 11 | Once or twice Allen loosed off an arrow at a scampering squirrel , more in play than with any idea of hitting it , and then scrabbled about in the undergrowth to recover the shaft . |
| 12 | They will happily walk about in the drizzle with a pink ice-axe , lime-green gaiters , a purple , yellow and turquoise rucksack , blue and orange kagoul , red breeches and a hat with the Union Jack on it . |