Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] around [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After they 'd decided to restore a 200-year-old country cottage on the outskirts of Stroud , Gloucester , housewife Amanda Rawson and her husband scouted around auction rooms looking for furniture to suit it . |
| 2 | The study focused mainly upon a group of twelve ‘ lads ’ in a school in Birmingham whom Willis followed around school and outside . |
| 3 | A chorus of shouting began around Holly . |
| 4 | At first Colchester stumbled around court looking anything but promotion contenders , Nomads outserving and outhitting the Essex side early on . |
| 5 | Consequently there was little they could do early that night when a mammoth sea caught them dangerously broached-to , but the buoyancy of Mae West life jackets wedged in the bow and stern kept the waterlogged canoe afloat till the storm eased around midnight — some 24 hours after it blew up . |
| 6 | Many early religious cults revolved around sexuality . |
| 7 | For me , the issues gelled around place , accident and the body . |
| 8 | Clinton 's chief henchman , Venner , was an amiable enough fellow but his conversation revolved around bear and cock fighting and the virtues of one breed of horse over another . |
| 9 | The reply given by Mrs. Bottomley centred around trade barriers not being acceptable and the answer appeared to me to contradict the action taken by America where President Bush has stated that Japanese imports are to be restricted . |