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Old 17-Dec-2005, 18:46
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Default Re: Phrasal Verbs Decoded

You can shop about:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search
From the BNC:
erm and they're a bit warmer, but if you shop about usually you can get them erm the same price
congregations shopped about and when a preacher died the congregation
(source http://view.byu.edu)
22&btnG=Search[/url]
It may be less common, but it does exist, which was why I asked.
Shopped round is also a rare occurence:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...shopped+round%

However, I can also see that frequency might enter into this- do you have a standard for exclusion?
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