"about" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There was nothing in all this that could conceivably concern the tragedy in Miss Watson's face; and by a half conscious instinct, Father Brown turned again to the seeming lunatic grubbing about in the grass.
- No, sir, I couldn't say that she was, not like some of the ladies round here who pay good money to gardeners and spend the whole of their time grubbing about on their knees as well.
- The Family History is more important than grubbing about in the dirt.
- She had been with him all the afternoon, grubbing about in an old pair of gloves in the herbaceous border; she loved her flowers.
- At first I thought this must have been intended for someone else and began grubbing about in the wastepaper basket to find the envelope.
- Grubbing about in picture books and wallowing idly in the chinampa, Mixtli could have done nothing to bring himself to the notice of even a slave dealer, let alone a royal court.
- But now to extend this bonus is really unacceptable, it is simply old-fashioned grubbing about in the European cashbox and that we must not do.
- Jasper had got down on to the floor and was grubbing about under the carpet.
- Somewhere among the stones armed feral humans grubbed about, plotting revenge but the Blood of Heroes saw none, though its instruments were looking.
- Her mother so much wanted her to be doing something prestigious, Caro thought bitterly, something she could boast about to her woolshop cronies, after all that dreadful 'grubbing about in the park'.
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