Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 2 | I have a suspicion that my clothes-sense around the side roads of Frenchay and Stapleton shocks a few of my friends . |
| 3 | His eyes played over her blouse and she noticed that his hand around the whisky glass trembled a little . |
| 4 | So many and so extraordinary were the stories she told me that our trip around his tiny château lasted for more than an hour and a half , with not a boring moment . |
| 5 | No one , not even lovers , are truly psychic , and everyone flounders around each other , misunderstanding , misinterpreting , sending out confusing signals . |
| 6 | I remember the war and my travels around the world . |
| 7 | It 's almost 17 years since I was last hauled up a mountainside with a metal bar across my bum , two poles in one hand and my arm around the anorak of an unknown Austrian whose only English was ‘ Bend ze knees ’ and ‘ Open ze legs ’ . |
| 8 | The primary job of the TAG was communications , a vital factor in the conduct of the operation of the Fleet and its aircraft around the oceans of the world . |
| 9 | Dr Neil was not in any way surprised at McAllister 's reaction to his lovemaking ; he expected such modesty from a well brought up young girl , and her arms around his neck , her timid responses , fluttering though they were , told him that she felt for him what he felt for her , and further inflamed his own passion , while warning him to go gently . |
| 10 | Things had improved — Jessica had been seen to laugh twice , and her hands around her knife and fork were less whiteknuckled — but there was no guarantee they would go on improving . |
| 11 | CRMF 's major national fund raising event , The World 's Biggest Coffee Morning on 1st October , was enthusiastically supported by Johnson Matthey staff and their families around the country . |
| 12 | Holden ( 1983 ) followed mothers and their toddlers around supermarkets to see how mothers use different strategies to avoid behaviour problems . |
| 13 | How much more bad publicity do the Government have to get on the failure of their housing programme from the Duke of Edinburgh , Conservative councillors and their supporters around the country before they do what we are all asking them to do and undertake a planned release of the capital receipts ? |
| 14 | Surely , I thought , she would need to have her brothers and their wives around her more , not less , frequently now ? |
| 15 | The new body will strengthen close links that already exist between RSPB staff and volunteers in East Anglia and their counterparts around the world . |
| 16 | The realistic base to the novel consists of a sea-journey by Fenwick Turner , a former CIA agent , and his wife around the Chesapeake Bay . |
| 17 | He was using an elderly Austin A35 van to ferry himself and his sons around London . |
| 18 | He had not easily shaken Claudine off — not that he had tried — and his arm around the girl 's waist had irritated Jenna unbelievably . |
| 19 | " What you believe is only a matter of where you were born , and what people around you believe . " |
| 20 | It is the pressures of the people of South Africa and our supporters around the world who will compel the regime to negotiate real and fundamental change . |
| 21 | She felt her hands slide to his shoulders as his grip around her tightened , and the hardness of those shoulders , the power she could feel in them , sent a shiver of long-forgotten yearning tearing through her . |