Example sentences of "about [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all , Sly Spy is just about worth the four brass beer tokens asked for by your friendly computer shop . |
| 2 | Dr Johnson considered them to be just about worth the guinea a week ( £l.05 ) they generally earned . |
| 3 | Just about in the ground now in n it really ? |
| 4 | We want that just about on the black line . |
| 5 | After a photographic session near the Palace Gates I was just about at the end of my tether and was thankful to catch a taxi back to Liverpool Street Station and home . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm just about at the limit of my transmitting range and anyway I do n't know exactly where we are , although I think it 's on the A7 road to Carlisle . |
| 7 | By this time next month we 're just about at the solstice we 're find that it 's not getting light until about seven o'clock in the morning and it 's getting dark again by about half past three . |
| 8 | He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days . |
| 9 | Worrying his head off , scratching about for the rent , weathering one disappointment after another — it seems to have been like that all the way . |
| 10 | I mean really useful , not just waiting about for the next piffling stage part . ’ |
| 11 | Their room was in darkness and he had to fumble about for the switch to the bedside lamps . |
| 12 | There 's more to worry about for the team leaders and their directeurs sportifs . |
| 13 | However , the results — far from presenting a more ‘ acceptable ’ picture of English housing — bore out everything that housing experts had been warning the government about for the past few years of increasing housing cuts . |
| 14 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |
| 15 | Vincent decided not to hang about for the landlord , but head back on foot the way they had come . |
| 16 | Joan had taken a great liking to Alianor Woodville who , during the past restless weeks , had regaled her with colourful tales of the court in earlier days when Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth had played turn-and- turn about for the English crown . |
| 17 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |
| 18 | ‘ She should n't be out and about for the rest of the year in my view . ’ |
| 19 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 20 | The insects are out and about for the same reason as us , moving at night to beat the midday heat at the very centre of the Grand Canyon . |
| 21 | Is the family aware of the stresses and strains that will be brought about for the child and family if the child should experience rejection on the basis of colour ; can it deal with this type of problem ? |
| 22 | The report is fair in stating its case in favour of such regulations , without concealing the disadvantages which these new rules would undoubtedly bring about for the Swiss art market . |
| 23 | There is no general evidence as yet to link second home ownership with house price increases ( de Vane 1975 ) , but in local instances this has undoubtedly happened on a property-for-property basis , and it is easy to be convinced that dire housing consequences can come about for the ‘ traditional ’ rural population . |
| 24 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 25 | So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance . |
| 26 | Have I go that , have I to hang about for the re the recor the |
| 27 | He thought suddenly of how she must look , seen from inside the kitchen she was leaning out of ; an ugly sexual idea occurred to him , and he looked about for the big black BMW bike , but it was n't there . |
| 28 | Where do you look for a girl who 's nothing to do but drift about for the daylight hours ? |
| 29 | De Craon is snuffling about for the juicier morsels , then it 's back to Paris and heigh ho for Rome and our Holy Father . ’ |
| 30 | They cut off their hands so that they go about for the rest of their lives with bleeding stumps . ’ |