"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
1. scattered about = rozrzucony około scattered about
2. strewn about = rozrzucony około strewn about
3. muck about = pajacować, wariować muck about
  • The other wickets came from two 12-year-olds we'd found mucking about in the field next door.
  • I'm not going to be mucked about by the likes of you, mate.
  • He is also credited as having "mucked about" with these adaptations.
  • He'd learned a lot in one day and, in a word, he was tired of mucking about.
  • After several hours of mucking about, the boggies fell exhausted to the ground.
  • What were you mucking about in the dark for?
  • What the management has to learn is that we can't be mucked about.
  • Tommy, who had been mucking about on the wall with Rodney, suddenly jumped down and went still.
  • To be frank, all this mucking about is not great preparation for my next interview.
  • We take the kids to the beach all the time and they're free; always running around, having swimming lessons, mucking about.
4. dot about = kropka około dot about
5. root about = korzeń około root about
(6) spin, whirl, swirl, twirl
Kolokacji: 4
(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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