Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a British study published in 1984 , at least three-quarters of all dog owners look to their pets to provide some security around the home , but proper training is required to ensure that your dog does not become a dominant tyrant at home . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , he went out , put the ladder against the wall briefly to leave traces , threw a bit of mud through the window , and the key , and scattered more mud around the rose bed . |
| 3 | The movie that provoked most debate around rape and its representation before The Accused , was Lamont Johnson 's 1976 film Lipstick , which at least did make some attempt to make connections between the rape and the wider social implications of how society constructs images of women . |
| 4 | to sort of see some way around it , but I mean it 's a , it 's a problem of the scheduling both by the theatres |
| 5 | Question : What do you get if you travel half way around the world and spend seven 19-hour days debating Amnesty 's future ? |
| 6 | Pipe another circle around the edges to make nests . |
| 7 | But if you erect this wall around yourself we shall be forced to throw stones . |
| 8 | But when we exercise we need more oxygen and we can only get that by pumping more blood around our body . |
| 9 | Pipe more icing around the edges of the ‘ balloons ’ cut-out and secure with a blob of royal icing to the card behind the birthday cake . |
| 10 | Policies should aim to create and improve accessible landscapes , and not just to preserve all land around cities , irrespective of quality . |
| 11 | Stretch rashers with the back of a knife until almost half as long again , then halve crossways and wrap each half around a prune . |
| 12 | You must anticipate some damage around the home at this stage , especially if you leave your pet on its own for any length of time . |
| 13 | Do n't worry folks , I knew what to do — smear some butter around the head and neck . |
| 14 | This probably resulted from the fall in sea level during the glacial period , which would have exposed more land around the continent , allowing the mantle to spread over a wider continent , to cover what is now shallow sea-bed , and to thicken inland along the line of the present coast . |
| 15 | Place the bulbs on a layer of fibre , then work in and gently firm more fibre around them . |
| 16 | Having sorted out his long game he just needs to acquire more consistency around the green . |
| 17 | They began to race each other around the edge of the table , making loud zooming noises . |
| 18 | Could n't anyone have any privacy around this dump ? |
| 19 | At the same time , Croatian and Serb forces continue to shell each other around Zadar . |
| 20 | Keep some space around your life when you can be alone , some time when you are not with people . |
| 21 | Leaving her bench , Fabia next took another stroll around the town which so enchanted her . |
| 22 | Walter Ash Clara knew quite well who Walter Ash was , and therefore did not flash this letter around the classroom , as she knew he was not a great prestige catch ; on the contrary , he had a reputation for being rather a bore . |
| 23 | Cos I 'm doing some mobile , well I 'm hoping to get some mobile around Ruddington before it opens and so people can see me a bit before . |
| 24 | We 'll wrap this blanket around us . ’ |
| 25 | Pronto is erm an area of the store where we sell our occasional furniture and erm small priced coffee tables , hi-fi units the occasional furniture that may go erm whereas up until a couple of years ago we use to display this product around the showroom floor part of the new concept stores was that we actually set the same section in the showroom which is very much like a a shelving system whereby the stock actually sits on the shelves , the customer walks in and it 's an easy easy purchase straight off the trolley erm very much like the supermarket operation so it 's the lower priced good value occasional type furniture the cash and carry the kind of things that you do n't need sales assistants for the kind of bookcase that you would put in your children 's bedroom that kind of thing . |
| 26 | It certainly relieves any tension around the shoulders ! |
| 27 | In other words , distribute that traffic around the network . |
| 28 | Two youths chased each other around a pile of rucksacks and their girls were shrill in encouragement . |
| 29 | ln the parks the eucalypti were alive with lorikeets , and flocks of parakeets chased each other around the streets ; while spotted diamond birds clung to the leaves of trees in every enclosure , and yellow-throated honey-eaters crept along branches in the ravines around the town . |