Sentence examples for buggered about from inspiring English sources

The moment of brotherhood did not last, however, as Norrell proceeded to make the whole lot disappear, including those copies at John Murray's publishing house, much to the consternation of Murray himself (an underused John Sessions) and poor, voiceless Mr Tantony, who'd once more travelled down from Nottinghamshire with Mr Gatcombe only to be royally buggered about again by magicians.

I'm almost 32, and I can't be buggering about, not if I want to have any hair whatsoever in the wedding pictures.

I half hear my great-grandparents asking what kind of bloody trade it is that allows you to go buggering about on the moors of a Thursday afternoon.

Stop buggering about and take it.

"I don't know why you'd bugger about with grapes when you can make a perfectly good wine out of potato peelings," the father says.

But if I need a quick chip-fix, then I'm not going to bugger about with triple cooked.

For a start, it's not Germany's fault Holland started to bugger about in an attempt to "humiliate" the Germans for the crimes of world war two.

The friendship between the two did not survive Ballard's increasing interest in experimentalism, which my father always characterised as "buggering about with the reader".

There was little music in either's family background, though Martin had a teacher who educated him with gramophone records and warned him not to go "buggering about" with Wagner.

From then on, and as a young man, he is bracingly coarse given the temper of the times and who he's writing to: "Rhino shit or bullshit or elephant shit, Hippo shit – what?"; "buggering about in Hong Kong & fucking about all over the world"; "If it wasn't for Angora I should look an awful cunt, said the Fuhrer".

I wandered down to the local shop, and mumbled something about cigarettes, and was served: it wasn't until a day or two later that I realised my speech had become a bit buggered-about-with as well.