Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 2 | and er you see and , and anyway I finished up my holiday and the sergeant said , he kept his promise and er sent me a report over the newspaper , you see , and er and of course and I liked the Isle of Man , you know , I went for trips around the island and various places and er , and I did see a Manx cat |
| 3 | She had a nanny , Kent-born Judith Pamell who took the infant Diana for walks around the grounds in a well-used , highly-sprung perambulator . |
| 4 | So we find him circling for months around the insoluble problem of Kee , exulting and then despairing , then exulting again . |
| 5 | They allow leading firms continuously to adjust to the collapse of the timescales for the diffusion of products around the world ; people all over the world are increasingly aware of what others are buying . |
| 6 | On the other hand , if there were more than three spatial dimensions , the orbits of planets around the sun or electrons around a nucleus would be unstable and they would tend to spiral inward . |
| 7 | The leeches look as if they have the faces of the bodies they have burst from , and they are capable of rearing up and attacking with a cluster of teeth around a central sucker . |
| 8 | The colourful pictures were much the same , the number of PWRs around the world had increased , but there was one major difference . |
| 9 | The beautiful island of Gigha spread out before us with a cluster of houses around the little bay of Ardminish . |
| 10 | Consider the following sequence of activities around a reading passage in Roy Kingsbury 's ( 1983 ) Longman First Certificate Coursebook Unit 21 , entitled ‘ Daydreaming : This time tomorrow … ’ . |
| 11 | Here is a sequence of activities around a reading passage from Simon Greenall 's and Michael Swan 's ( 1986 ) Effective Reading Unit 20 , entitled ‘ Save the jungle — save the world ’ . |
| 12 | Greatbatch and Thomson — again to the arm ball — were swept aside in the space of four deliveries , Patel chose once more to live by the sword and this time died by it , and Cairns fell meekly , to the ever-increasing cluster of fielders around the bat . |
| 13 | Top quality mattresses are also hand side-stitched — this will look like rows of dimples around the borders to hold the springs firmly in place at the edges and to strengthen the border . |
| 14 | There are , in fact , infinitely many other families of homoclinic orbits winding any number of times around the z-axis . |
| 15 | What we have is an excess of definitions around the feminine whereas men are the undefined norm . |
| 16 | It has been able to anticipate requirements of operators around the world . |
| 17 | While senior members of the party and government hold a series of meetings around the city , the Stefan the Great Movement for National Revival is holding what it calls a ‘ great gathering ’ in the main stadium . |
| 18 | Thiercelin began to nudge through the crowd of idlers around the stage door , leaving his friend gazing stoically after him in the late evening rain . |
| 19 | Five years ago DIP entered its second phase , thanks to the development of software that not only handled image storage and retrieval but actively managed the routing and movement of images around an organisation . |
| 20 | There were no juke-boxes or Coke machines , but there were many shelves of books around the room and a selection of magazines and newspapers ; there were also at least a dozen chess-boards . |
| 21 | In another family , where both father and daughter were in the trade , there were plenty of books around the house , but the children were " not good scholars " whatever that meant . |
| 22 | concertina cut-outs of animals around the room . |
| 23 | Tonight ITV , 8pm DS GREIG fronts an undercover operation where the aim is to nab a burglar who has been running riot pulling off dozens of break-ins around a local housing estate . |
| 24 | The town has some fascinating historical buildings , among which must be mentioned the old Town Hall with its Black Tower , the Latin school with its allegorical front , the salt house with its striking black and white shutters , the house where Pestalozzi , the Swiss educational reformer , died in 1827 , a parish church dating from 1480 , and a cluster of houses in a happy jumble of styles around the Heimatsmuseum . |
| 25 | Graduates were usually destined for mageship at least , but Rincewind — after an unfortunate event — had left knowing only one spell and made a living of sorts around the town by capitalising on an innate gift for languages . |
| 26 | The anemone has a flower-like cluster of tentacles around a single central opening ; the sea squirt has no tentacles and two openings connected to each other by a U-shaped tube . |
| 27 | It has a digestive tract that ends in an anus and a group of tentacles around the mouth , enclosed within the two shell valves . |
| 28 | Its front end projects above the surface and carries a little coronet of tentacles around the opening through which it sucks in water . |
| 29 | Although the general distribution of earthquakes around the world had been known for many years , it was only with the establishment of a comprehensive network of seismographic stations to monitor underground nuclear weapons testing in the early 1960s that a detailed global picture emerged ( Fig. 2.10 ) . |
| 30 | Last year your film correspondent , William Parente , suggested that the last real subject left for the British film industry to tackle was the Highland Clearances , a subject of relevance to the Gaels , their current political context , and to many thousands of Scots around the world . |