Example sentences of "all around [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They 'd swum and picnicked , and now they were lying in the shade of a drunkenly angled coconut palm , and all around them the sun glistened relentlessly on sapphire water and brilliant green vegetation .
2 All around them the shoulders of the hills were browned by the fading of the heather , dulled by the weakening sunshine , their expanses turned dusty-blank as though a great grinding had sifted down on them , decades of labour and hardship , and left them blinded .
3 All around them the world had come to life .
4 All around them the solemnity of other faces in mourning .
5 So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian .
6 As all around me a nation explodes into an orgy of joyous celebration , I feel a little of what Mrs Thatcher must 've felt when the tabloids went into rapture about her ‘ ten glorious years ’ .
7 All around me the bedlam continued but I was looking inward .
8 All around me the pandemonium continued .
9 All around me the waves looked grey , but far away at Ireland the sea glowed an ethereal soft green , for it ringed a fairy island .
10 " But there are many other good signs all around us a maiden holding a spray of blossoms … a serpent entwined around the root of a lotus a phoenix in a prayerful attitude . "
11 All around us the signs are there … so vote Conservative on Thursday and the recovery will continue on Friday .
12 All around us the trees were heaving .
13 It has been both exhilarating and draining and we have to work tomorrow , so we put in our earplugs and pull our sleeping bags over our heads while all around us the talk goes on and on .
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