The phrase "comb about" is not correct in written English.
To use the verb "comb" in the correct form, it should be "comb through", as in "I combed through the drawer for any forgotten items."
To do that, keep backcombing farther up the hair shaft so that by the time you reach the middle of your head, you are placing your comb about three fingers up from your roots.
Place your brush or a fine-tooth comb about halfway between your hair's roots and your hand, and apply firm brush strokes downward toward the scalp.
Take a section of hair and place a dread comb or another fine tooth comb about an inch above your scalp.
Tells about a man demonstrating combs; about the Vibratone exhibit where people stood in line to have their vertebrae shaken up; about the poultry & homing pigeons; a chat with a man called Joe Green, owner of Be-Be, a bull terrier, The Dog With the Human Mind".
The Republican rise, coupled with Democratic factionalism, prompted many prominent state Democrats to approach Combs about seeking another term as governor.
She assigned two assistant district attorneys and an investigator to do nothing but comb through about 185 cases involving requests for DNA tests as well as about 75 other innocence claims.
Comb Blossom Brandy (about $26 a pint) has a touch of sweetness on the nose and is very smooth on the palate.
"Over time Warren Buffett focuses as much on risk as return, and this track record gives an indication that Mr. Combs thinks about investing the same way," Mr. Gelb said.
Indeed, this week local news organizations have combed through about 50,000 e-mails sent to Gov. Scott Walker to evaluate the truthfulness of his assertions that, despite the tens of thousands of protesters outside his office, a majority of people who wrote to him were supportive.
Working more in earnest over the last few years, the Idea partners combed literature about memorials.
Library staff noted the book's split spine while combing through about 200 rare NYPL religious texts dating back 1,500 years.
