"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(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
5. put about = zakręcać, zawracać put about
  • I've been thinking over the story I shall put about.
  • "Do you know what story that woman put about?"
  • We heard all this last time, put about by Philistos.
  • Nothing was to be done but to put about, and return in disappointment towards the north.
  • It would not be fair to my men to put about now, for they have all an interest in the trade.
  • Nobody else would be so put about by a little thing like shutters.
  • They still have time and room enough to put about.
  • And yet that has been put about, making people who object to this seem unreasonable.
  • Because he obviously didn't know of the fiction being put about.
  • Food has nothing to do with it, that's only a scare put about by physicians.
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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