Example sentences of "around the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — centres around the old oak woodland which is equally important to a wealth of other birds . |
| 2 | Poor old devil , thought Amiss , as he fussed around the old man , removing dish-covers , undoing the napkin , helping him settle himself upright . |
| 3 | A walk around the old Pubs and Inns of Northampton . |
| 4 | A Tour Around the Old Pubs and Hotels of Darlington : ‘ I came to Bank Top Station on the finest Locomotive the Caledonian had in stock . |
| 5 | The talk , says Mimms , is that when they develop a new ground it 'll be built around the old boardroom . |
| 6 | By car you can explore an unspoilt region of stunning mountain scenery , fresh orchards and attractive little villages where everyday life has hardly changed in years and still revolves around the old church square . |
| 7 | Bring on the Pimm 's and let's have a sing-song around the old Hammond because Paul Weller is back . |
| 8 | The capital that has grown up around the old village of Muscat is a place of broad roads , shops , trees and flowers , imposing offices and graceful buildings in great variety . |
| 9 | Microsoft has gone on to use the success of Windows itself to attack rivals who have made their names selling applications built around the old MS-DOS regime . |
| 10 | The carts can come with a variety of extras including a refrigerator , a TV , stereo and dashboard fans , but the distinctive white cart will be seen around the Old Course for promotional purposes . |
| 11 | Nearing the narrows of the loch where the ferry operated , the road climbs a long incline through a forest , emerging in open country and here a branch , formerly the main road , goes down to the hotel and other buildings grouped forlornly around the old ferry pier : it is always sad to see an enterprise that has served its purpose well and has now had its day . |
| 12 | Its fifteen-foot walls , with occasional gun-embrasures and rusting cannons , extended a full five miles around the old palaces of Bouton , the great mosque and a vast and excited crowd . |
| 13 | In reality it was not part of the city at all ; the builders of Kinsai had carved away the plateau and slotted the massive stones of the defences into place around the old structure so that the marvellous symmetry of the circular layout would not be interrupted . |
| 14 | It also stands accused of murdering the much-loved area around the old Bull Ring market that had grown up in piecemeal fashion over the 800 years since Birmingham was granted a market charter in 1150 . |
| 15 | Only where industries used coal directly , like the forges of Sheffield , were towns yet blackened and the air poisoned ; and only where they produced ‘ waste ’ in great quantities , such as in coal-mining , glassworks and chemicals , was the landscape beginning to acquire that sterile covering of ‘ tips ’ , that were destined to go on piling up until they produced a mountain landscape in miniature ; until the vast range of coal-tips around the old town of Wigan , for example , could be sardonically nicknamed the Wigan Alps and be illustrated in later years under that name on picture postcards . |
| 16 | Originally structured around the old Microdata Pick-compatible systems business , the Hemel Hempstead company is now primarily a systems integrator , software and services company , buying up to 70% of its hardware from OEMs such as Encore Computer Corp . |
| 17 | The crowd around the old fellow 's barrow seemed larger than usual for a Saturday morning and I could n't work out why there was such a hush the moment I showed up . |
| 18 | ‘ The Last Meal in the Old Home ’ , like a Pre-Raphaelite painting , the three orphans and the grieving servant seated in melancholy around the old table , using the old knives and forks they would never use again . |
| 19 | ‘ It is a tremendous relief for me to be kicking a ball around the old place again . |
| 20 | Around the Old Executive Office Building , where the NSC staff had their offices , North was remembered as a man who seemed always caught up in some dark drama : leaving for the airport , constantly being paged in meetings , ‘ looking like a ghost ’ in the corridor . |
| 21 | Even before the eighteenth century there existed various forms of development around the old Chiswick Parish Church of St. Nicholas , such as the first Elizabethan ‘ Burlington Arms ’ ; Vine House ; Pages Yard-Ferry House-Brampton House and the cottages in Fishermen 's Place , also fronting the river , Bedford House ( which included Eynham House ) , Said House and Cottages ; Thames View ; Lingard House ; Red Lion House ; Prospect Cottages also Walpole House , where Barbara Villiers , Lady Castlemain , created Duchess of Cleveland in 1670 , lived in her later years . |
| 22 | But there 'll be some jollification around the old homestead tonight and nobody likes tripping the light fantastic better than wor Martin . ’ |
| 23 | The Horsebere has been culverted around the old site , although the former path can still be made out today . |
| 24 | It is one of those lovely places that lends itself to exploration on foot — especially in and around the old city . |
| 25 | So , in 1875 , he founded Bedford Park — now a conservation area — around the old mansion house known as Bedford House , the residence of John Bedford , with two houses erected by John Bedford , one on either side of his mansion house , for his two daughters ; he named one house Melbourne House and the other Sydney House , a recognition of the ascent of the development of Australia . |