Example sentences of "on [conj] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to the top of the steps and looked around , he could n't see anyone or anything untoward ; he looked out of the window and he thought he saw a figure on or around the track . |
| 2 | A stronger possibility was that Lorton had left something which incriminated Dougal on or around the body , and was relying on the next passer-by to report the corpse to the police . |
| 3 | Most of Gould 's collecting in Van Diemen 's Land , however , was done within 80 miles of Hobart , on or around the Derwent River and the fertile Macquairie Plains , where kingfishers , water crakes and crow-shrikes , golden plovers and white-fronted herons , bitterns and black-backed porphyrios were to be found in glorious profusion . |
| 4 | THIS MORNING at 7am , 1,250 pairs of arms will churn the warm blue water of the Pacific into foam as the competitors set off on the first , swimming stage of the 11th Ironman Triathlon on and around the little resort of Kailua-Kona here . |
| 5 | Some twenty years ago I wrote a guidebook to the walks on and around the three peaks of Ingleborough , Penyghent and Whernside in Upper Ribblesdale , supplementing the text with over two hundred pen-and-ink drawings . |
| 6 | MANY PLACES OF INTEREST on and around the Three Peaks can only be reached on foot after many miles of walking over rough ground , but visitors to Leck Fell are favoured by a quiet moorland road that takes them to their objective precisely and , if they travel by car , without effort . |
| 7 | He found a very strong field on and around the stone , much greater than background levels . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , I do , ’ said Jack firmly , ‘ with a little touch of luck on and around the greens . |
| 9 | The following information on facilities on and around the campus may be of interest to delegates . |
| 10 | In the study of football fans we have access to the manifestations of action on and around the ground and even a permanent record of some of this action in the form of video and audio recordings . |
| 11 | PRE-FORMED SHAPE Use a long spirit level on and around the pool to mark an outline of the outer edge on the ground , cutting through any turf with a knife |
| 12 | Dismembered androids , some still twitching , lay in oily puddles on and around the speeder . |
| 13 | The male , as it reaches maturity develops stag-like antlers on and around the front of the head . |
| 14 | The winning American margin — 11½–4½ — was chiefly the result of finesse on and around the greens . |
| 15 | A ban on locos was immediately effected but Sunday 13 October saw a 31 working car engineer 's train on and around the bridge . |
| 16 | Police belive he 's the so-called Fishermead rapist , who 's carried out a series of attacks on and around the Fishermead Estate . |
| 17 | Now the man who once had to supplement a lean living as an artist with part-time work is being paid to draw life on and around the River Tees . |