Example sentences of "[adv] around [art] [noun] and " 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’ of women from a life centred entirely around the home and the family , will make such an assessment increasingly outdated .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 next morning they looked all around the wall and in the river , but they never found it .
3 There are RYA recognised sailing centres all around the UK and abroad .
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 There were reports of sterling sales from all around the world and also by major British companies .
7 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 .
8 The crowd ( as ever ) did Leeds proud , were all around the ground and Im sure helped make it another ‘ home game ’ for the players .
9 Where the inner band had stuck to the hair all around the sides and back , she had to chop the hair off right to the skin so that he finished up with a bald white ring round his head , like some sort of a monk .
10 Sea fish would be caught all around the coast and estuaries , perhaps for most of the year , and traded some distance inland .
11 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 .
12 Heart filled with pathos , I slipped through one of the windows , and stepped gingerly around the saplings and splintered tiles , afraid I might crash into the cellar .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Set amidst silvery olive groves , Sirmione is a town of terracotta roofs huddled prettily around a castle and the lake .
19 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 ’ .
20 ‘ 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 .
21 The situation today is very muddled , software is available for both the Apple Macintosh and the IBM PC and its compatibles but even more is just around the corner and it wo n't be until towards the end of the first quarter of next year that the market will have stabilised .
22 She might think we 're just around the corner and that we 're not coming to see her .
23 It would be easy to be a prophet of doom and gloom in these difficult times but in business and in the Association , I sense a new spirit of optimism that better times are just around the corner and that we are at last seeing the tangible signs of recovery .
24 I gazed quickly around the room and sighed bitterly .
25 If the Brigade was still around the village and things got a bit quieter I would keep that date , and treat them to British steak and kidney , etc .
26 That 's the first time and then we and then we were still around the back and we darted up over these banks
27 That summer I could only think he was mad as he set off around the town and I dozed in the dark heat and stillness of the garden .
28 For large-enough r-values ( r } 312 ) there is a stable symmetric periodic orbit which winds just once around the Z-axis and which then persists for all larger r-values ( Fig. 6.9c ) .
29 Rotate the cutter once around the pipe and tighten the wheel a little more .
30 With your dog once again lying on his back , gently trim the inside of each leg , then carefully around the tummy and penis areas .
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