Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rumour has since flown around the circuit that poor Jimbob 's bruises are not particularly pretty . |
| 2 | The three volcanoes concerned are about as widely scattered around the world as possible — Vesuvius in the Mediterranean , Krakatoa in Indonesia , and Mt Pelee in the Caribbean . |
| 3 | a rectangular piece of crêpe paper large enough to go around the tube once and have about 10cm to spare at each end |
| 4 | They set something like 50,000 km of net a night , enough to go around the equator one and a quarter times . |
| 5 | All the lots are unoccupied , or so she thinks until a pair of green plastic curtains suddenly swishes around the car , enfolding them in a cave of green plastic gloom and she becomes aware of other cars and bodies breathing behind green silences . |
| 6 | Except when you are hobbling around dispatching shot after shot into the beautifully manicured lakes thoughtfully scattered around the landscape , leaving a trail of Band-Aids in your wake . |
| 7 | However , a certain number of these works are obviously scattered around the world ’ . |
| 8 | As consumer demands become less varied around the world , the truly successful company is one which adopts global marketing strategies that can be tailored and implemented with a local focus . |
| 9 | He leans over and begins gently tonguing around the edges of Zeke 's nipple . |
| 10 | She only lives around the corner . ’ |
| 11 | Iwerks Entertainment Inc , a Burbank , California company that includes Sun Microsystems Inc among its backers , says it plans to open movie park entertainment centres that will combine large-screen formats , simulation and virtual reality technologies to create a futuristic cinematic city : it plans to open the first Cinetropolis in August at the Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard , Connecticut , and has also signed an agreement with the Japanese trading firm Itochu Corp to launch a network of Cinetropolises throughout the Far East and Asia ; Cinetropolis will be a virtual city of cinemas featuring five separate sites : an Iwerks Video 360 circular theatre an Iwerks 870 giant screen theatre , an Iwerks Virtual Reality simulation theatre , and a live performance theatre , all built around a street scene featuring bars , restaurants , retail stores and promotional marketing space . |
| 12 | So we get bits of all these : all superficial , all framed around the most drearily predictable judgments . |
| 13 | The approach is exciting and when the fall is suddenly revealed around a bend in the path , the effect is electrifying , a shock to the senses . |
| 14 | The road continues on a switchback course , reaching more open ground with wider views and , after a few more miles that seem to be leading nowhere , arrives at the top of a hill where the cottages of Arnisdale are suddenly revealed around a bay ahead . |
| 15 | They went for long rambles around the hills which overlook Balmoral and as they lay in the heather he read out passages from books by the Swiss psychiatrist , Carl Jung , or Laurens van der Post . |
| 16 | We have only to look around the Chamber to know that this Parliament is finished ; it is dead . |
| 17 | When your attention is so wrapped around the problems or situations in hand it is easy to lose sight of your own body 's requirements . |
| 18 | He longed to take her in his arms , but she swiftly dodged around the table to the window so that the Spanish table was a barrier between them . |
| 19 | Colour another piece of fondant black , roll out and cut three strips about 2cm ( ¾inch ) wide and long enough to wrap around the rocket . |
| 20 | While they watched the rain a horse suddenly walked around the corner of the track ahead . |
| 21 | Even the major labels constantly release naff rock records by groups like Roadhouse and Kingofthehill , and so kicking around the provinces must be hundreds of audio-nightmares waiting to come out of daddy 's garage . |
| 22 | And it was Charles who went on , ‘ Do n't you think you 've done enough traipsing around the world ? |
| 23 | It is flexible enough to bend around the channel in the woodwork , and hard enough to push back the steel Yale bolt . |
| 24 | Therefore the Supreme Court 's analysis of the case really only revolved around the second question presented to it , namely , conviction under the mail and wire fraud statutes . |
| 25 | Sarajevo journalist Mensur Camo is one of the handful of journalists literally running around the city , dodging crossfire , to gather information . |
| 26 | Some women took to the loom , further diluting the labour supply in that branch , and others were able to enter the factories , but for many , especially in the de-industrialising South , the loss of home spinning was a real and much commented-on aggravator of female unemployment and depresser of living standards , especially marked around the turn of the century . |
| 27 | In 1986 , Coleman had struck up a friendship at the Larnaca marina with Fohad Beaini , a lively boat-builder better known around the docks as Abou Talar . |
| 28 | Deviations from a state of overall full employment must be randomly distributed around a mean of zero . |
| 29 | Applying these results to the unemployment rate implies that should be randomly distributed around a mean of zero and that should not exhibit any systematic relationship with . |
| 30 | The horizon actually curves , and you can literally walk around the world in five steps . ’ |