Example sentences of "[pers pn] stand around " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man beckoned to me as I stood around vaguely , and asked me to fetch cognac for him , vodka with ice for his wife and … what for Nell ? |
| 2 | So I stood around like a fool for twenty minutes . |
| 3 | It 's the sort of thing it is easy to observe if you stand around in the garage during practice or generally stick around a team , watching who gets the first briefing , who is paying more attention to whom . |
| 4 | A sedentary existence or a job that keeps you standing around for hours is liable to encourage a poor circulation as well as allowing the buttock and thigh muscles to become weak and flabby , making cellulite much worse . |
| 5 | It was not so much that he had anything against people in general , more that he saw no purpose in deliberately setting up occasions on which you stood around trying to think of something to say . |
| 6 | Having built their cult reputation four years back on a rib-tickling broadside against bar-room self-aggrandisement called ‘ Preposterous Tales In The Life Of Ken McKenzie ’ and the hilariously deadpan ‘ Three English Football Grounds ’ , this South London duo now augment their tinny beatbox-plus-guitar formula with throbbing keyboard moodscapes as in current single ‘ We Stand Around ’ , the most unnerving paean to soccer obsessives ever recorded . |
| 7 | ‘ We Stand Around ’ is good . |
| 8 | Well , we were n't having that , so we stood around , we said ‘ Well , we thought we 'd just wait around a little bit , you know , just in case they might want to say goodbye to us . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And they stand around in pentacles trying to raise the Devil ? ’ |
| 10 | They stand around with rulers and clipboards . |
| 11 | They stood around hopefully , occasionally glancing up into the sky or peering down the road as though expecting something to happen . |
| 12 | They stood around on the branches staring in wonder at the sight of this small human preparing to take off on Swan . |
| 13 | Now they stood around eating fragments of sandwich and watching its eyes . |
| 14 | All of them standing around or squatting , picking at themselves and the dogs sniffing them . |
| 15 | Tonight it 's the story of his uncle and as he stands around in the hall , he talks about his Uncle Rocco who was stationed in Ipswich . |
| 16 | He stood around , stiff , resplendent and uncomfortable in the brilliant plumage of a field marshals uniform . |
| 17 | He was just quietly walking into the wall , while the rest of us stood around in an awkward half-circle . |