Example sentences of "was [v-ing] around [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their three elder girls were standing beside her and the baby , and Fantina was darting around them . |
| 2 | Tallis was charred wood , hardening , still aware through this gate into the first forest of what was occurring around her . |
| 3 | So encouraging Dawn to feed when we were out of doors was not as easy as it sounds , because her attention was completely absorbed in what was happening around her . |
| 4 | I tried to think of nice things ; then , when I could n't think of any , I determined to concentrate on what was happening around me . |
| 5 | The noise was intense , constant chatter , voices raised in argument , an air of expectancy , even tension , as everyone pretended to be involved in what was happening around them but secretly watched the great ones at the high table . |
| 6 | When Jesus met his disciples after the resurrection " he opened their minds to understand the scriptures " , by relating what they read in their Bibles to what was happening around them . |
| 7 | A year ago , when your trousers did n't condemn you as a person , Bobby Gillespie started going to house clubs ; he wore ripped jeans and a sad top , but was truly touched by what was happening around him . |
| 8 | There was still a slight wheeze in her respirations but she was looking around her , quite free from distress . |
| 9 | He was looking around him as he spoke . |
| 10 | ‘ The whole vision was crumbling around me . |
| 11 | The smoke was swirling around him , affecting his unprotected eyes and making him choke . |
| 12 | A mosquito probably registers about ten or twenty decibels , and this could be very annoying if you were trying to sleep and one was buzzing around you , but in our trade we 're normally talking about a level of perhaps sixty or seventy decibels which is tolerable and the sort of noise perhaps we 're making at the moment . |
| 13 | The desert was shaking around them . |
| 14 | Corbett knew he had to leave but the room was spinning around him and he fell gratefully into the gathering blackness . |
| 15 | The world was caving around him , and he did not know yet from which quarter the disaster would fall , only that its arrival was certain . |