Example sentences of "[verb] about in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 2 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 3 | I strongly predict that the changes that have come about in the Soviet Union are likely to come to China in a different form but to the same degree in the years that lie ahead . |
| 4 | Now , I admit that it ca n't be , it ca n't have come about in the way that Freud says . |
| 5 | The next few years saw her and Ross out with this band of fun boaters and future rodeo aficionados though Lesley remembers having spent much of these early years bobbing about in the boils on the edge of the rough stuff , a result of lack of confidence in her own ability and perhaps not being pushed to perform by the guys in the group as much as they would each other . |
| 6 | Once aboard two LSIs , the raiders carried out successful rehearsals at Scapa Flow ( north Scotland ) , despite the navy 's understandable challenge to the carrier ships ' small craft bobbing about in the night . |
| 7 | These fumble about in the sand or mud , particles adhere to them and the sea cucumber slowly curls them back into its mouth to suck them clean with its fleshy lips . |
| 8 | His front paws rested on the heather as his back legs thrashed about in the dog-sized hole . |
| 9 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 10 | Richard moved about in the bathroom ; the light hurt my eyes so I turned on my stomach and hid my face in the pillow . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The feathers moved about in the current of air that blew in under the door . |
| 13 | As Carol Jackson moved about in the kitchen she could hear the steady burble of conversation , punctuated every so often by a laugh . |
| 14 | A second area of concern about the effects of new technology has been centred around the question of what changes are likely to come about in the nature of those jobs that are left . |
| 15 | Clarissa said she was glad she had n't known he was walking about in the open . |
| 16 | He had no time to stand about in the theatre if it did not deliver . |
| 17 | There was a moment of drama though when this big pike started thrashing about in the net . |
| 18 | The agency is thrashing about in the grip of an angry Congress that is bent on uncovering mismanagement and conflicts-of-interest at the agency . |
| 19 | He does this by moving away from the shoal of fry and then thrashing about in the water as if injured . |
| 20 | Says Harrison : ‘ I was thrashing about in the water with all my clothes on and ended up being dragged down . |
| 21 | The most lethal amphibian venom of all is secreted by tiny arrow-poison frogs that clamber about in the leaves littering the floor of the South American rain forests . |
| 22 | A good tight-fitting cap or hat is useful since there is nothing worse than groping about in the dark to recover a wind-blown hat . |
| 23 | He resolved that the occurrence could be sorted out in daylight and that there was no point in groping about in the dark . |
| 24 | What the hell was that kiss about in the middle of all this ? |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't hang about in the bathroom ; it 's cold up there . ’ |
| 26 | But you must n't hang about in the morning then , neither ! |
| 27 | say , say , saying that we do n't hang about in the , he 's gone say that . |
| 28 | Once in front Dunlop never really looked like being beaten , although he gave his supporters plenty to worry about in the middle of the 30-lap race . |
| 29 | Once in front Dunlop never really looked like being beaten , although he gave his supporters plenty to worry about in the middle of the 30-lap race . |
| 30 | Donna twisted about in the bath , sending water sloshing over the edge and on to the cork-tiled floor . |