Example sentences of "[verb] to [art] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commercially viable deposits of lignite were confined to the area around Lough Neagh in the early 1980s . |
| 2 | Forces opposed to the President had been in control of much of the country for several months [ see pp. 37702-03 ; 37767-68 ; 37844-45 ] , with the central government 's authority largely confined to the area around the capital . |
| 3 | Heavy clay is made up chiefly of tiny soil particles which bind together tightly and cling to the water around them , making the clay sticky and difficult to work . |
| 4 | Hay 's , which came to the market around Grey Monday , managed to sell just 8 per cent of the shares on issue . |
| 5 | He tries to confine his searching to the area around the nest , presumably so that he can keep an eye on his partner . |
| 6 | Calls were made to every ally around the world . |
| 7 | They have also worked wonders in the hall areas and we have now been able to bring these areas into use for the Learning Together groups on Sundays and the Beacon Centre on Thursday evenings , allowing us to make early use of the premises and demonstrate to the Community around us the church is in business again . |
| 8 | People had been trampled to the floor around the wheel . |
| 9 | He was sure there was a hollowness within the two-foot square , compared to the area around it . |
| 10 | A wider but related set of matters was brought to the fore around this same period by the ‘ history-of-religions school ’ ( Religionsgeschichtliche Schule ) , which may be reckoned to have begun with Otto Pfleiderer 's Primitive Christianity ( 1887 ; E.T . |
| 11 | I was introduced to the area around Cookham and Bourne End , near Maidenhead , by a rare entry into the world of sponsored walking . |
| 12 | However , while you have been reading the book , you will have converted at least a thousand calories of ordered energy , in the form of food , into disordered energy , in the form of heat that you lose to the air around you by convection and sweat . |
| 13 | In September 1944 , as the Red Army advanced into Belorussia , Domanov 's Cossacks had been moved across Europe and assigned to an area around Tolmezzo in northern Italy , then under the control of Italian partisans . |
| 14 | The term ‘ palace ’ originally referred to the gathering around the king , rather than an actual building . |
| 15 | His forays were therefore limited to the area around Yarrundi . |
| 16 | Star of the show is the Vulcan and viewers are treated to a tour around the cockpit with S/L Paul Millikin . |
| 17 | The tower was converted to a house around the turn of the century and has been lived in ever since apart from a couple of years when architects used it as offices . |
| 18 | She listened to the silence around her , and then tiptoed up to her bedroom , ignoring the hungry rumblings of her stomach . |
| 19 | We also talked about the new settlement being self-contained and integrated , but came I think to a consensus around the table that the level of employment provision in the new settlement should be related to the level of employment supply in the new settlement as opposed to a level of employment which would satisfy employment needs |
| 20 | Sloth faeces , estimated to contain half the leaf material , are returned to the ground around the trees : the three-toed sloth actually buries them ! |