Example sentences of "was around the [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Another person who was around the scene at the time was Chrissie Hynde who , after Malcolm 's shop and writing for the NME , had really been scuffling around .
2 Yet I gather that Mr Muggeridge was around the school in the grounds tonight . ’
3 The generator itself was around the back of the reception block , protected from interference or vandalism by a welded metal walk-in cage inside a lean-to shed .
4 The man hurried on , throwing the leaflet in a waste-paper bin as soon as he was around the corner by the newspaper stand .
5 There was no motive , and Greg had no notion whether he was around the house at the time or not .
6 Armies chose these banks as suitable places for crossing the Rhine , and a particularly eventful time was around the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the next .
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