Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun pl] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the hon. Member for Hammersmith ( Mr. Soley ) and his Labour colleagues around the country , who control far more houses than the Government , showed even a tiny percentage of the indignation that he is now attempting to express about empty houses in Swindon in relation to the 5,000 empty houses in Labour-controlled Liverpool , the 2,800 in Labour-controlled Salford , the 2,000 in Labour-controlled Newham , the 5,500 in Labour-controlled Manchester , the 2,000 in Labour-controlled Newcastle , the 1,000 in Labour-controlled Knowsley , and so on — |
| 2 | Clad in a white boiler suit , Barry takes his keyboard off the stand , bangs it gently ( ! ) on the floor , then puts it back before one of his customary jives around the stage , whistle in mouth . |
| 3 | Clad in a white boiler suit , Barry takes his keyboard off the stand , bangs it gently ( ! ) on the floor , then puts it back before one of his customary jives around the stage , whistle in mouth . |
| 4 | Not that his nephew Denis was in any better a mood as he chased his little women around the room . |
| 5 | She gave him a basilisk gaze and he tried to dispose of his long legs around the legs of the Sheraton chair . |
| 6 | Ben , in his lonely walks around the island , had found the skeleton and found the treasure . |
| 7 | The Titfords were a little different — Charles Frederick had decided to use his share of father 's estate to set up a modest retail business , one which his mother and sister could contribute towards when he was in London himself , and one which they could perhaps handle efficiently without him when he departed on his sporadic travels around the world . |
| 8 | A man of both charisma and personal piety , John Wesley is a legendary figure for his tireless travels around the country on horseback , preaching at every opportunity ( often in the open air , largely because he was banned from using pulpits ) . |
| 9 | He writes brilliantly of the great circumnavigation of Magellan , of his own voyages around the Horn , through the Panama Canal or up the peak in Darien where Balboa ( not Keats 's stout Cortez ) first spied the Pacific . |
| 10 | He only regained his place when Tony Harrison broke an arm in the second qualifying round , but his two saves around the half-hour , first scrambling Hughes 's shot around the post , then pawing away Joyce 's looping header , left Preston 's brightest period unrewarded . |