Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now available in a formula especially for use around the eyes , £27.50 for 60 capsules . |
| 2 | ‘ There ca n't be much to farm around Caldbeck , can there ? |
| 3 | With over 200 PWRs already in operation around the world this was a proven design . |
| 4 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 5 | Got some they 've got some old terminology still around the organics , still in use around organics , it should be . |
| 6 | For ‘ safety ’ reasons , the people I mention will not be spoken of by their true names , but I can explain more about this when I come home on leave around April . |
| 7 | Then Jilly cast off her chadour and sang , a plaintive rendering of ‘ The Winter of Seventy-Nine ’ , and suddenly , as happens on these occasions , the knockabout mood changed , people stopped laughing , tears stood in eyes , as Jilly 's harsh , grating flat voice lamented the year and deplored the future , as her white , beaky , angry face gazed fiercely at the audience , as the confined energy of months swelled up in self-pity around the room , orchestrated by Jilly 's incantation : |
| 8 | His temper , held so carefully in check around Sandra 's fragile emotions , exploded . |
| 9 | Among the cities most in danger around the world are : * Bangkok , which faces a sea level rise of six feet by 2010 ; * Shanghai , also threatened by a six feet rise , coupled with the danger that salt water would advance 40 miles up the Yangtze River , causing severe drinking water shortages ; * Hong Kong , where seas may engulf newly-reclaimed coastal land , and an increased frequency of typhoons , due to climate disruption , threaten the whole territory ; * Alexandria — the whole city " may disappear " unless major defence works are undertaken ; * Tokyo , which will need £40 billion of flood defences in order to protect new suburbs ; * Rio de Janeiro , whose tourist beaches and nearby coastal villages are in danger ; * London , where there is concern that the existing Thames flood barrier may prove insufficient . |
| 10 | The mother was just out of sight around the corner in the kitchen making Mr Wormwood 's breakfast which always had to be two fried eggs on fried bread with three pork sausages and three strips of bacon and some fried tomatoes . |
| 11 | A rider , still out of sight around a bend , came toward her , crashing heavily through the regrowth As soon as he came to the turn , where the path was open to the sky , she saw it was the Master , Lord Watson Wyatt himself . |
| 12 | Lucy crawled out of bed around lunchtime , found her way up to the shower while Josie could be heard moving around in the kitchen , and could n't resist leaving aside her own hard soap and supermarket shampoo in order to freeload a few squirts and squeezes of the gels , mousses and lotions that stood on the tiled windowsill . |
| 13 | Things happen to Leonard , and things get out of control around him . |
| 14 | I 've been a man in total control all my life , and I find myself out of control around you . |
| 15 | Tie securely with string around the sacking and place on the bottom of the pond . |
| 16 | Something in the back of her mind was saying : shock , , you 're in shock , Bernice snap out of it , woman , but she tuned it out and just stared at Ace until the world came back into focus around her and she heard Bishop saying calmly : |
| 17 | Mud houses , they say , are better than the devastation at home … now with winter around the corner they 're digging deeper for warmth … |
| 18 | A fine gold garland of flowers winds wildly in plasterwork around geometric patterns on the ceiling , gold and white Corinthian columns flank the grand double doors , and paintings of Greek friezes by Cipriani surmount the overdoors . |
| 19 | As the patrol , now unloaded and debriefed , relax over a mug of tea and a cigarette , the depot slowly comes back to life around them . |
| 20 | ‘ to be out at night around Godstowe ? ’ |
| 21 | The man once dubbed ‘ Uncle Frank ’ for his genial style , wandered deep in thought around his garden . |
| 22 | Should they necessarily be restricted to electoral variations , or even to activity around state institutions such as local government ? |
| 23 | They are n't on call around the clock for emergency care . |
| 24 | The young boy was extremely embarrassed but soon swallowed his pride and climbed back into his canoe while we all fell about with laughter around him and it was then that I heard the bang . |
| 25 | There are several variants of the argument , differing at least in part around the degree of class reductionism and the amount of reflexivity allowed to the working class racist subject . |
| 26 | Instead of square-bashing around their Berlin barracks , 500 graduates will do their military service teaching the young jobless how to use computers . |