Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to deny , of course , that individuals are causal subjects ; they fill various social roles , engage in the work of production , and thereby bring about changes in the social world . |
| 2 | However , the dead were also afraid of the living , who might desecrate their tombs , destroy their bodies and thereby bring about the eternal annihilation of their identities . |
| 3 | ‘ Putting all this new plant and equipment into operation will provide much more flexible manufacturing systems and thereby bring about significantly reduced stock-holding , ’ explained Phil . |
| 4 | These two teams had a remarkable Tournament , cool under pressure and eventually breaking about even right for the winners . |
| 5 | It was holiday snaps of Wyatt with a naked Bea which angered Andrew and eventually brought about the Yorks ' tragicomic separation . |
| 6 | One argument given earlier was that the processor might treat a proper name as signalling the status of main character , and so bring about a relatively high proportion of singular continuations made to this character . |
| 7 | ‘ We never watch television together and only say about fifty words a night , if that . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ My mother was a very careful owner and only did about a thousand miles a year between the end of the war and 1962 . |
| 9 | He carried it home and patiently set about restoring it to full health , hand feeding it for days . |
| 10 | But a decade or so later , the Darlington Wagon and Engineering Company was finding there was less and less to boast about . |
| 11 | His body , untended , would slowly and painlessly and naturally bring about what was inevitable . |
| 12 | Mhm , and generally buggered about with . |
| 13 | Now , to this day , I 'm a dunce at the geography of England , I know where the principle towns are , I know you go north to Manchester and south to London and generally get about . |
| 14 | Occasionally Group Captain Bennett would poke his nose in to make sure everyone was getting on with the job and not larking about . |
| 15 | If someone were ill with starvation , it would be cruel and thoughtless to advise them to look after their spiritual life and not worry about where their next meal was coming from . |
| 16 | When I 'm drinking a glass of water , I 'm drinking a glass of water and not thinking about five other things at the same time . |
| 17 | But the purpose of making such an accusation is , if it is made defensively , to cement oneself into a position of self-righteous stasis , and not to bring about change . |
| 18 | Unless you 're about forty-five and come from Bradford or Stepney and already have about nine children who 've brought you to recognise your oppression , there 's a big down on pregnancy . ’ |
| 19 | Traditionally , the centre-half , under the offside law as it then was , played chiefly as an attacker , but even before the offside law was changed in 1925 to increase goal-scoring chances , and thus bring about a need for stronger defence , he was becoming more a third defender . |
| 20 | In order to succeed in their desire to pass on their property to their children , men first introduced the rule of monogamy and thus brought about the first great change . |
| 21 | Unless you are thinking of doing La Demande , put away your chocks and Friends and just take about a dozen quick-draws . |
| 22 | They took little interest in the film and just larked about . |
| 23 | Sometimes you have wisdom teeth that have hung on in there for so long they wo n't come out and just lounge about on the X-rays , flicking V-signs . |
| 24 | As Beatrice and Orage became lovers , she worked for the paper , assuming increasing importance editorially and soon writing about a third of the contents herself as reviewer , poet , satirist and literary adviser . |
| 25 | So it is not implausible for critics to say that the solid-state detectors are unreliable and somehow bring about a sharp distortion in the spectra . |
| 26 | Two years later he bought the property ‘ out of love ’ from Verger for £280,000 , and promptly set about a £3m renovation that included a new restaurant , spacious kitchens employing 19 staff and 10 luxury bedroom suites affiliated to Relais et Châteaux . |
| 27 | When William Bradford stepped off the Mayflower he described the North American landscape as a ‘ hideous and desolate wilderness , ’ and promptly set about bringing it to heel just his ancestors had done so successfully throughout Europe . |
| 28 | He was in command of the local corps of yeomanry and quickly gathered about ten of them for the defence of Carewscourt . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most potent weapons used in Bosnia are mortars ; they can be fired from the grounds of hospitals or schools and quickly moved about . |
| 30 | Baglin emerged for the second set looking more determined , and quickly set about re-establishing himself in the match . |