Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] about [prep] the [noun] " 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 | Then she burst into a paroxysm of croaking laughter , spluttering wildly , her emaciated limbs rolling about under the covers . |
| 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 | Ruining your good trousers wriggling about on the ground . |
| 7 | This barrier seems to be impermeable : it is unlikely that we shall ever be able directly to detect tachyons ( although there are some interesting ideas floating about concerning the consequences were we able to ) . |
| 8 | They first recorded the vervets ' call and then played them through loud-speakers to free-living monkeys moving about on the ground . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Peter Berger argues that society has often been viewed as a puppet theatre with its members portrayed as ‘ little puppets jumping about on the ends of their invisible strings , cheerfully acting out the parts that have been assigned to them ’ . |
| 11 | He already had two of the things clinking about on the back seat . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Do not leave peels lying about in the laboratory before mounting or filing them : they attract dust and lint and are easily scratched . |
| 14 | It 's a fine sunny day in August — but where are all the loafers lyin' about on the grass ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 've often seen toddlers jumping about in the back of cars ahead of me . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Alone , with most of the lights out and the cleaning ladies dotting about in the corridors , she tidied the papers on her desk for the fiftieth time . |
| 20 | The referee looks for open hands fluttering about in the opponent 's face , because they all too often ‘ accidentally ’ catch the opponent 's eyes . |
| 21 | Alison Hutchinson spotted the two starlings flailing about in the netting on the roof of Darlington 's Singer Sewing Centre in Bondgate . |
| 22 | There were several families under the trees now , with little children running around and babies crawling about in the grass . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | " The women going about in the streets showing their nakedness to everyone who passes . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |