1. He poked about in his bag for his ticket.

2. Why are you poking about among my papers?

3. She didn't feel well, and poked about the house.

4. I was poking about in the drawer, looking for the key, when I found this!

5. Mother went into the attic where she poked about among old boxes and trunks.

6. The man is always poking about in the office, and that is a bad habit.

7. James began poking about in the cupboard, looking for the sugar.

8. My husband likes to poke about in the woods.

9. Somebody was in there, poking about.

10. Tam had complained earlier about how he was for ever sneaking up on them and poking about while they were building the fence.

11. Now, they dragged one of the local lochs and they poked about in the river but they found nothing.

12. She had gained the opposite bank and was poking about in a great drifting mass of torn grass and brushwood.

13. She poked about in the brambles and wagged her tail.

14. Lee was poking about, knocking dusty packets of seeds off the shelf and moving flower pots.

15. Charlie told me it wasn't nothing for them to get through twenty nicker poking about in the shops.

16. A marabou stork was poking about nearby in a pile of rubbish, and I gave it a wide berth.

17. Even a policeman wouldn't dare poke about without a search warrant - and you're not a policeman.

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18. Why did he poke about for hours in the old furniture shop? He might have spent the time more usefully.

19. No longer content to poke about in that little town, Morton went up to New York.

20. He wouldn't take kindly to an outsider coming to interfere and poke about.

21. It may be carried on the boots and gear of poke about in caves.

22. I love being a photographer because it's a key that allows you to open doors into other worlds and have a bit of a poke about.