Example sentences of "[adv] around [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recent changes in female employment , and the increasing ‘ liberation ’ of women from a life centred entirely around the home and the family , will make such an assessment increasingly outdated . |
| 2 | The track curved sharply , taking his car halfway around the ship before it slowed and stopped . |
| 3 | The next morning they looked all around the wall and in the river , but they never found it . |
| 4 | She will be shown all around the hospice and meet patients and staff , ’ said Lady Miriam . |
| 5 | It was an enormous red folly with balconies all around the back and to the gardens at the sides , and had been divided into apartments . |
| 6 | Leave a ¼″ gap all around the top when attaching the board — an 18″ × 72″ × 18″ piece of ¼″ plywood fits into this . |
| 7 | There were reports of sterling sales from all around the world and also by major British companies . |
| 8 | Later , as the day 's heat faded into balminess and sunset streaked the sky with glorious shades of pink and gold , Ashley searched all around the house and up and down the drive , but the delivery seemed to have vanished . |
| 9 | The crowd ( as ever ) did Leeds proud , were all around the ground and Im sure helped make it another ‘ home game ’ for the players . |
| 10 | Late last night , Tass reported that bursts of automatic fire were heard all around the city as ‘ several tens of thousands of people ’ gathered on Bucharest 's University Square . |
| 11 | Was that erm would she go all around the island or would she just go round Llaneilian area ? |
| 12 | Sea fish would be caught all around the coast and estuaries , perhaps for most of the year , and traded some distance inland . |
| 13 | Not long afterwards , when the visitors had left , Chola fetched the rugs from the inner room and the family lay down around the fire and slept . |
| 14 | Like the Egyptian church , the Celtic church was organised less around the diocese than around the abbey or monastery . |
| 15 | In Corfe Castle women employed in the local out-work manufacture of knitting stockings could expect to earn only around a shilling or one shilling and sixpence ( 5-7½p ) a week . |
| 16 | If the Doors comparisons are to be believed — which they are not — success is only around the corner if the amount of hype for Oliver Stone 's movie is anything to go by . |
| 17 | Our eyes do not wander randomly around the page when we are reading , but certain sorts of words are fixated more often than others ( O'Regan , 1979 ) , and this means that we must know in advance of a fixation where it is that we are going to look next . |
| 18 | Can you tell me something about the crowd itself , erm did particular age groups tend to stand together around the ground or were the young |
| 19 | Heavy snow falls will affect sport , but river has been fishing well with good catches of dace and roach from Conham , especially around the footbridge and Boardmill . |
| 20 | Britain is likely to suffer a major loss of land along the east coast especially around the Wash and Thames estuaries and the Norfolk Broads , while coastal protection works such as the ♯500 million River Thames barrier protecting London would have to be raised . |
| 21 | The board should be checked for damage especially around the nose and rails , and it is also worth bearing in mind its weight since boards become heavier with age . |
| 22 | The dead trees had edged closer to the settlement ; they crowded in around the clearing and the blackthorn hill , with its bones and its wooden idols . |
| 23 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
| 24 | Set amidst silvery olive groves , Sirmione is a town of terracotta roofs huddled prettily around a castle and the lake . |
| 25 | The glue covers the books , the pens , everything and I spread it generously around the fastening before I close it up . |
| 26 | Computer technology is developing all the time , and there may be some great new gizmo just around the corner that you 'll want to use in your PC . |
| 27 | That one or two might make enough money to pass as legitimately successful , but that most would go on hoping for and talking about the ‘ up for none touch ’ that was just around the corner if only this and that fell into place until they became little more than saloon-bar bores . |
| 28 | This dream always seemed just around the corner as George almost made it seem possible . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , just around the corner and at the same time , Christie 's South Kensington offers ‘ Lot 78 , a 78 rpm gramophone re cord of Titanic , ‘ Stand to Your Post ’ , and ‘ Be British ’ , under £100 ’ or ‘ 1912 Titanic postcard , personally autographed by four survivors , £100/120 ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's a practice area just around the corner and the starter will call you to the tee five minutes before you are due to tee off , ’ he said . |