Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun pl] around [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He becomes old , and would be glad for the chance to see the hills around Merkadale again before he dies . ’ |
| 2 | Cold pinches the hills around Florence . |
| 3 | Would my right , would my right honourable friend agree that the use of American and French and British planes to bomb the hills around Sarajevo may not necessarily produce lasting peace in Bosnia and would he further agree that if the idea is to achieve a demilitarised zone , policed effectively around Sarajevo then the best chances of so doing are by ensuring that Russian soldier in United Nations uniforms , in integrated units with British and French forces so help in the policing of that zone . |
| 4 | Morton had conscientiously paced the streets around Holborn , waiting to be approached . |
| 5 | Simultaneously , Colonel William Wolseley , landed by Kirke to organise the loyalists around Enniskillen , totally defeated , on 30 July 1689 , a much larger force at Newton Butler , 15 miles [ 24 km ] south-east of Enniskillen , capturing its commander . |
| 6 | A police convoy used the streets around Rushton today in a bid to jog someone 's memory to catch his killer . |
| 7 | One infant school I know has opted for selecting three core subject specialists and moving the children around part of the day to work with their specialist teacher . |
| 8 | He placed the posters around London 's underground , giving the little shop as a stockist . |
| 9 | David Mairowitz 's Censorship column covered the controversies around obscenity cases like Last exit to Brooklyn but also struck attitudes which others saw , even in those days , more suspiciously . |
| 10 | The City was close to surrender when , after five weeks , government troops vanquished the rebels around Aylesbeare . |
| 11 | The two leaders enjoy an uneasy alliance , with Skarsnik controlling the mountains around Karak Eight Peaks and the eastern end of Death Pass , while Gorfang controls the western end of Death Pass and the adjoining area . |
| 12 | The route took the runners around Marrakesh 's elegant city wall |
| 13 | He never forgot Dentdale and credits much of his earlier love of learning and his interest in rocks and their formation to the days he spent as a boy rambling the fells around Dent . |
| 14 | When it was opened , British Rail argued that it was important because it would not be necessary to improve the lines around London . |
| 15 | On 21 February , 1933 , 20,000 people jammed the streets around Brompton Oratory when Charles married London 's most famous and beautiful debutante , Margaret Whigham , heiress to a £32 million textile fortune . |
| 16 | It 's not going to be as big as her first marriage , when 47,000 well-wishers crowded the streets around Westminster Abbey to catch a glimpse of her in the magnificent Glass Coach . |
| 17 | Police use cameras to catch the car maniacs menacing the roads around Merseyside |
| 18 | Check the gaps around window and door frames ( C ) and that drip grooves on sills ( A ) are not blocked with paint . |
| 19 | There 's no way draymen in London deliver after lunch-time , so I felt fairly safe there even though I had to rearrange the kegs around Armstrong . |
| 20 | Rescuers combed the hillsides around Pontypool , Gwent , for five hours after Mr Jones went missing from an old people 's home . |