Example sentences of "were [v-ing] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was seven P.M. ; already military police were sniffing around the clubs and bars of what Texans call ‘ occupied Mexico ’ . |
| 2 | Three men in black overcoats and dark glasses were fussing around the long cars and a small crowd had gathered to weep and wonder . |
| 3 | More than half of the comprehensive schools in existence by 1968 were of the orthodox 11–18 variety , and most arrangements were crystallizing around the approved versions of 10/65 . |
| 4 | They were driving around the Green and the smell of damp earth and undergrowth was rich , overlaying even the sharp car fumes . |
| 5 | Barely a year ago investors were swarming around the airline business like bees around a honeypot ; airlines were forging grand global alliances . |
| 6 | By now the ship was firmly embedded in the shoal and the breakers were forming around the ship . |
| 7 | I said to a companion while we were wandering around the city . |
| 8 | Here we were greeted by the farmer and his wife , whose sheep and pigs were wandering around the road and the village . |
| 9 | Under the astute leadership of its general secretary , Bruce Kent , it made room for the various local and single-issue groups that were mushrooming around the country . |
| 10 | They 'd had plenty of bait four nights ago , then another two helpings of bait on another two nights and , although they were moving around the swim as was evidenced by line bites and rolling , they were just not inclined to feed — whatever the conditions . |
| 11 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |
| 12 | Men in shirtsleeves and women in summer dresses were strolling around the airport and ice-cream vendors were doing a brisk trade . |
| 13 | Forty to fifty lean tough dockers who were milling around the hut chatting and laughing , came to an expectant hush at his command . |
| 14 | Humans were milling around the base of the Ship . |
| 15 | The incident , which happened while several people including children were milling around the van , is being treated by police as attempted murder . |
| 16 | The incident , which happened while several people including children were milling around the van , is being treated by police as attempted murder . |
| 17 | The incident , which took place while several people , including children , were milling around the van , is being treated by police as attempted murder . |
| 18 | When you and I were in our slit trenches sheltering from the shit that 's flying about , these two here were running around the orchard picking up the dead and wounded . ’ |
| 19 | In the closing years of the nineteenth century , just as the eastern Germans were leaving the land and deserting the east , at the very time that the Polish population of the border districts was on the rise , the theoretical and practical policies of both the Polenpolitik and the Kulturkampf were hardening around the drive towards industrial and imperial expansion — if not overseas , which was almost impossible — then in the eastern borderlands . |
| 20 | Harvey 's two kids were chasing around the trees in their pyjamas . |
| 21 | We were eventually released and returned to find some of the crew busily repairing the mainsail on the dock , while the rest , with Tandri and the officers , were being bullied by lesser officials who were nosing around the hold and demanding to see their personal possessions . |
| 22 | She got into the coach , the steps were folded up , and in a moment the horses were trotting around the house towards the main drive . |
| 23 | We had finished dinner and were sitting around the campfire . |
| 24 | The boys were screaming around the yard outside with companions attracted by the commotion . |
| 25 | The men and boys who were working around the stables looked across curiously to see the strangers . |
| 26 | The marching men were disappearing around the curve of the wall . |