Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] all around " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A short distance south of Trondheim we turned off down a side road to find a quiet spot for lunch , and in a grove of trees we saw redwing , fieldfare and chaffinch feeding young while siskin , blackcap , chiffchaff and willow warbler were singing all around us . |
| 3 | Fragments of wicker were scattered all around the room ; a small pile of them marked the drain . |
| 4 | It was here that Grandfather Denknetzeyan had spent many hours in deep contemplation while the seeds of revolution were scattered all around him , here that he spent his last moments in Moscow before setting out on that final and fateful journey to Petrograd . |
| 5 | Jesus was aware of her touch even though the crowd were pressing all around him . |
| 6 | Men were rushing all around us with buckets of sand . |
| 7 | High above them , the base of the Bridge passed through a cone of semi-transparent cables , which were anchored all around the edge of the depression , before continuing downwards to merge smoothly with the bubble itself . |
| 8 | Both had their moments and , for the first time , both were shown all around the world on television . |
| 9 | As Taff and I crouched in our trenches eating our afternoon meal and trying very hard to ignore the clouds of mosquitoes that were buzzing all around us , I looked at Taff . |
| 10 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 11 | ‘ The letters also show that , at the end , Elvis knew what was happening all around him — that he was being used by a lot of people . |
| 12 | She turned her attention to what was happening all around them , the laughter , the gossip , the spontaneous singing of a Rossini aria . |
| 13 | The conversation was dying all around her as she looked in the direction that had been indicated . |
| 14 | It seemed the aroma of him was growing all around her , damp and masculine , the smell of rain in a forest . |
| 15 | One minute I was in Holland working as a clerk in a police station and the next I was zooming all around the world . |
| 16 | The smoky-breath was billowing all around him now . |