Example sentences of "[adv] around [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The part , only around in prototype quantities now , will sample in April and should be available in volume by the summer .
2 That 's right yes and erm it was all er , now it is more , more mechanized , but still , they 're still , I do n't know whether they still do it cos I have n't been around Squires I do n't know whether they 'd do casting now , I have n't been down around for years and years , when I erm when I left and then I went into the leather trade and er started to learn leather cutting
3 She looked desperately around for Gabriel .
4 No fucking around with stocks , shares , commodities , futures .
5 With the average pressure hovering around 1030 mb plus for weeks on end last summer , it can be seen quite clearly from the table below that the water level in the Solent area was generally around minus 0.4m lower than predicted values .
6 But they always around about Christmas time .
7 If you 're still around on April 28 , and you 're suffering from high-culture overload , lay your hands on a ticket for the Ceiliuradh Slogadh rock/folk concert at the Olympia Theatre .
8 can hassle anybody who still around for phone directories and so on .
9 Ono was still around in issue two ; growing fast was an interest in censorship and pornography , to join dope , flying saucers , ley-lines , and rock as obsessions of the nascent underground .
10 The forelock-touching peasant is still around in print , and always good for a condescending laugh .
11 Their guide turned left across Butt Bridge , heading towards Great Brunswick Street which would bring them up around by Trinity College …
12 Lucie began to look nervously around for fear it was part of an ambush by footpads .
13 I looked woozily around for Mr and Mrs Gould but there was no sign of them .
14 Well I was n't around at christmas was I ?
15 Leeds sup– porters may have terrorised most of England but they were n't around in Copenhagen on the night the volcano erupted .
16 If I were a member of a species , highly evolved and perfectly adapted to a life among craggy rocks , pecking out the odd lamb 's eye , devouring a few mice , picking through a nice gamey carcass occasionally , but mostly just hovering gracefully around on thermals below cliffs , I would take great exception to being described as ‘ just ’ a crow .
17 It was after myxomatosis ; there had not been a rabbit in that field or anywhere around for years .
18 And dotted in mines and quarries from New Zealand clockwise around to Easter Island , the ocean is littered with cobalt , zirconium , titanium , antimony and almost everything else under the sun .
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