"about" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

about adverbio

verbo + about
Kolokacji: 247
worry about • complain about • wander about • mill about • scattered about • spin about • move about • read about • learn about • ...
(6) spin, whirl, swirl, twirl
Kolokacji: 4
1. look about = rozglądać się dookoła look about
3. lie about = leniuchować, obijać się lie about
4. lay about = okładaj lay about
  • There was nothing to do all day so we just lay about.
  • I ignored his question, gathering up the weapons that lay about.
  • But he needed minutes to see what lay about, for his eyes were not trained to such things.
  • Here I was working my skull to the bone while others just lay about.
  • But she appeared to find more interest than cause for alarm in what lay about.
  • There were only a few shards of glass laying about.
  • The sun would soon be fully up, and the pale light of morning lay all about.
  • They're no good cos you leave them laying about and they get lost.
  • But unfortunately there is a lot of snack food laying about.
  • Many of the stones were no longer upright but lay about on the ground.
5. put about = zakręcać, zawracać put about
6. face about = twarz około face about
(14) excite, know, fantasize, bang
Kolokacji: 4
(16) brag, boast, blow, gloat
Kolokacji: 4
(17) feel, grope, rummage, scrabble
Kolokacji: 4
(19) bandy, fight
Kolokacji: 2
(20) smile, grin
Kolokacji: 2
(21) poke, sniff, nose
Kolokacji: 3
(23) knock, rap, buffet
Kolokacji: 3
(26) whip, round
Kolokacji: 2
(27) inquire, bruit, snoop, enquire
Kolokacji: 4
(28) quibble, hedge
Kolokacji: 2

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