Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wind sites must be placed where the wind blows fairly constantly , most of them are situated around the coast . |
| 2 | Four of them are bubbling around the kitchen and the other two are in the front room keeping an eye on the visitors , roped up on the floor watching two blacks the size of quarter-backs shaking through their jackets . |
| 3 | ‘ A group of them are concentrated around the gas drums . ’ |
| 4 | They are distributed around the body at , for example , the groin , the armpit and the abdomen , Noyan 's work shows that lymph nodes excised from calves and goats exhibit regular spontaneous movements . |
| 5 | And they 're moving around the sun . |
| 6 | And they 're traipsing around the room , getting the bed out , doing this that and the other . |
| 7 | They were followed around the house as they washed and dressed , but the social workers were stopped by Mrs H from going upstairs to get the children up . |
| 8 | They were built around the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | They 'd had plenty of bait four nights ago , then another two helpings of bait on another two nights and , although they were moving around the swim as was evidenced by line bites and rolling , they were just not inclined to feed — whatever the conditions . |
| 10 | They were employed around the compound as permanent sentries . |
| 11 | They were published around the world during 1987 beginning in MANCHETE , ( Brazil ) 16 May ( " Serra Pelado — A Torre de Babel desce ao inferno " ) , followed by THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE , London , on 24 May ( " In the Hellhole " ) and then in THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE , 7 June ( " An Epic Struggle for Gold " ) . |
| 12 | But the real obstacle to any formal union of the centre and right opposition parties is that each of them is formed around the personality and ambitions of an individual politician who considers himself to be papabile or presidentiable . |
| 13 | Brent 's success in informing and advising the immigrant community about changing legislation that directly affects them was repeated around the country , and is reflected in the immigration enquiry statistics which rose by 180 per cent in 1987/8 compared with the previous year . |