Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he bolted down his breakfast Chuck gazed around the clearing with delighted eyes . |
| 2 | The town of Swindon expanded around the works and they form an integral part of the towns history , Bill Jeffries is Ken Ryders works manager . |
| 3 | Buffeted helplessly by the crowd , Melanie peered around the platform . |
| 4 | Rex gazed around the cafe . |
| 5 | Frankie peered around the angle of the wall , trying to measure the length of her chain before judging it safe to enter by the back door . |
| 6 | But ground engineers reprogrammed IRAS to work around the fault well before the survey began . |
| 7 | Gordon Wilson , whose words of forgiveness to the terrorists who killed his daughter Marie echoed around the world , was there . |
| 8 | Kato , the masked Japanese fighter , specialises in Kung-Fu deviousness ; Jake ‘ The Snake ’ Roberts slithers around the ring and strikes like a viper . |
| 9 | Ellen looked around the oddly painted powerboat . |
| 10 | Schellenberg looked around the hall , then led the way out through high oak doors back into the entrance hall . |
| 11 | Bernice looked around the mediaeval castle . |
| 12 | When Lucy went around the dressing rooms picking up after the final number , her hands shook . |
| 13 | Grimma looked around the cab . |
| 14 | Hari stared around the silent building , there was no-one about , the silence hung heavily over the rows of seats , the stage was hidden by a thick curtain and yet Hari had the eerie sensation that she was being watched . |
| 15 | The river Talabec flows around the outside of the crater . |
| 16 | Baying echoes around the forest . |
| 17 | Dr Jaffery rustled around the room , picking up books and looking behind cushions for his mosque cap before remembering that he was already wearing it . |
| 18 | From where I stood outside it I could see the Channel and the town of Boulogne set around the port . |
| 19 | As Kylie jetted around the world from one assignment to the next , Dannii took time out from her own hectic schedule to be with her . |
| 20 | Rincewind peered around the doorframe and jerked back as a heavy throwing axe whirred past like a partridge . |
| 21 | It is with Chaplin 's personal life that Attenborough sloshes around the whitewash like a demented house-painter . |
| 22 | As Jane wandered around the room , poking in the cupboards , examining the small but luxurious bathroom , Patrick stood by the window staring absently into the Green . |
| 23 | Cornelius came around the car and took it from him . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's a bit noisy , ’ said someone from Lotus as the booming voices from Microsoft and Borland reverberated around the hall . |
| 25 | Nicholson glanced around the church , warily , afraid that the invocation of the name of this secular devil might disturb the Christian bones . |
| 26 | Moving carefully , Benny stepped around the edges of the room , and opened the window shutters . |
| 27 | The large clumps of tufted hair grass Deschampsia caespitosa or soft brome grass Bromius mollis around the edges of woods or in rough meadows are veritable insect palaces . |
| 28 | To stress the sense of transience , Helen Chadwick assembles around the moor motifs of these allegorical couples the emblems of further mortification : from the hand of the ecstatic figure whirling with the goose fall maggots from the goose 's lights ; the double-headed figure of Harvest faces one way to ripeness and bounty , the other towards decomposition ; the frivolous ribbons , lacy frills , frothy trailing trimmings and net tights , the schoolgirl socks and other ornaments echo the fripperies of Vanitas paintings . |
| 29 | Reynolds , sidelined for 2-years by a disputed doping suspension , made the most of his first appearance back on the world 's stage as he caught Nigerian Sunday Bada coming around the final curve and won going away . |
| 30 | Ivy grew around the columns left between doorways and windows , and turned them into foliated columns . |