Example sentences of "[vb past] around the area " in BNC.

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1 For an hour or so Fabia wandered around the area which the dramatist Goethe had once called ‘ a paradise on earth ’ , and began to wish that she had more holiday than she had in which to explore more fully .
2 He danced around the area , shaking an Ascon , a gourd filled with snake vertebrae .
3 She trained as a pilot at Haddenham near Aylesbury and regularly flew around the area .
4 She trained as a pilot at Haddenham near Aylesbury and regularly flew around the area .
5 A stone 's throw from the Iraqi border post to the west of Khorramshahr , a senior officer of Iran 's Revolutionary Guard vigorously denied that his men , who swarmed around the area , were involved in what he called Iraq 's ‘ Islamic revolution ’ — which , he said , would one day ( ‘ God willing ’ ) succeed .
6 He was gone , and Morse looked around the area somewhat fecklessly .
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