Example sentences of "[verb] around [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One look from those eyes when someone had displeased him and we 'd all be walking around on eggshells . |
| 2 | There 's been everything from violent sieges to people walking around with shooters . |
| 3 | you see the officer walking , walking around in pairs continually , not and if you 're gon na be paid extra for it , do it that way . |
| 4 | This meant that a large part of the lesson time was wasted getting on buses and to and from the slopes instead of learning to ski and also a lot of walking around in boots and carrying skis . |
| 5 | Inside , the decor is Early Seventies Porn Film chic : thick carpet , round-the-wall bench sofa , huge melamine coffee table , breakfast bar — everything , in fact , except badly-recorded wah-wah guitar and bearded blokes called Sven walking around in towels . |
| 6 | He would be up with the morning chorus , while Beth was happy to mooch around for hours in her nightdress , drinking black coffee , smoking cigarettes and watching breakfast television . |
| 7 | She sticks the cigarette in her mouth and looks around for matches . |
| 8 | Having grasped the educational import of the manyattas , Windley cast around for ways in which they might be adapted for administrative purposes . |
| 9 | At independence , the new governments had looked around for ways of publicizing their activities and seized upon the means to do so . |
| 10 | This is odd as over 85 per cent of Saabs , including Carlssons , are sold to business users , who presumably do not hang around outside nightclubs in the evening . |
| 11 | He had got bored with driving around in cars anyway . |
| 12 | Will look silly if I have to spend time driving around in circles to find it . |
| 13 | Vern made for a bench in a concrete space with trees and shrubs scattered around in pots , and sat down . |
| 14 | The leaves flew and scattered around in fragments , brushing their bodies and sticking to their wet cheeks . |
| 15 | Make better use of your base cabinets by fixing slide-out towel racks to the doors , and by installing swivel storage shelves to do away with all that groping around for things at the back . |
| 16 | He lies around in jeans strumming his guitar . ’ |
| 17 | It is a tautology to say that English spelling is excellent because the reader can Jump around for clues on so many different levels ( semantic , visual , phonic , contextual , etymological , and so on ) . |
| 18 | We might have a silly name , stupid haircuts and we might jump around like idiots , but we 're not irrelevant . ’ |
| 19 | We might have a silly name , stupid haircuts and we might jump around like idiots , but we 're not irrelevant . ’ |
| 20 | He rooted around for survivors but there were none . |
| 21 | Most shoplifters give themselves away by constantly looking around at cameras and cashiers or staying in the same area for a long time . |
| 22 | Just looking around at acres of tired , naked flesh made Jezrael squirm ; she stayed in her room as much as possible . |
| 23 | If we are at an early stage of the work , still looking around for ideas and still perhaps ‘ hypothesis-seeking ’ , it is likely that we shall want to talk to people to try to get help , stimulation , new viewpoints , and so on . |
| 24 | Old baby reins and buggies were brought into use and children in the Strand were being pushed around in trolleys . |
| 25 | If Wednesday 's vote is close , the Maastricht Bill could still stumble through the Commons after being pushed around in scores of hours of Commons debate . |
| 26 | After a great deal of hunting around with flashlights , the plain-clothes policemen were forced to go away empty-handed . |
| 27 | When I go to their gigs they all walk around with cartons of orange juice . |
| 28 | The instructors walk around with weapons on their belts and constantly remind their pupils to don their ear protectors . |
| 29 | ‘ I mess around with motor-bikes actually . ’ |
| 30 | Halcyon days indeed but now the trio have broken up and McWilliams after another brief spell in England is back searching around for mounts . |