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Example sentences for "about business"

  • So to supper at home and to bed, after many people being with me about business, among others the two Bellamys about their old debt due to them from the King for their victualling business, out of which I hope to get some money.

  • Rider about insuring, and spoke with several other persons about business, and shall become pretty well known quickly.

  • Batten's, whither Mr. Gauden and many others came to us about business.

  • At noon Mr. Creed came to me about business, and he and I walked as far as Lincoln's Inn Fields together.

  • Carteret's about business, and so home too, and Sarah having her fit we went to bed.

  • This noon Mrs. Burroughs come to me about business, whom I did baiser.

  • Hither comes Carcasse to me about business, and there did confess to me of his own accord his having heretofore discovered as a complaint against Sir W.

  • Up, and many people with me about business, and then out to several places, and so at noon to my Lord Crew's, and there dined and very much made of there by him.

  • Several others came to me about business, and then being to dine at my uncle Wight's I went to the Coffee-house, sending my wife by Will, and there staid talking an hour with Coll.

  • Several people came to me about business, among others the great Tom Fuller, who came to desire a kindness for a friend of his, who hath a mind to go to Jamaica with these two ships that are going, which I promised to do.

  • So to dinner, and busy with my father about his accounts all the afternoon, and people came to speak with us about business.

  • Home at noon to dinner, and what with the going away of my father today and the losse of Mercer, I after dinner went up to my chamber and there could have cried to myself, had not people come to me about business.

  • Up betimes, and many people to me about business.

  • Here was her brother come to see her, and speake with me about business.

  • Several people to me about business, among others Captain Taylor, intended Storekeeper for Harwich, whom I did give some assistance in his dispatch by lending him money.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about eight times the; about eighty; about eleven; about equal; about fifty; about four; about fourteen; about half; about half the length; about him; about his; about noon; about sixty; about the; about then; about thirty; about this; about two; about two inches long; about two miles from; active business; direct government; keep alive; little joke; much hurt; right willingly