Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Althea Greenan goes on a walkabout around central London galleries |
| 2 | He had to say that any effect produced by a talisman around the neck was to be ascribed to the devil , whereas effects due to Christian amulets came from God 's goodness . |
| 3 | ONE SUMMER in 1920 , while staying with the Morells at Garsington , the late Percy Feilding went for a drive around Oxfordshire , and miles up a cart track , purely by chance , he found Beckley . |
| 4 | A little way along there was a young man standing between two stalls with a tray suspended by a strap around his neck . |
| 5 | And as she stood , she saw a dozen men enter the room to stand in a semicircle around her . |
| 6 | The road dipping down into town and the bar with its brown tin roof and its dusty verandah , and a woman running out into the street , hair horizontal in the air behind her , strings of wooden beads swinging in a loop around her neck like a cow 's jaw chewing , her mouth wide open , a wedge hewn out of her face , as if someone had taken an axe to her , as if her mouth was a wound and her screaming the bleeding . |
| 7 | And it took our model 's breath away when she tried on the ring … its facets sparkling like a waterfall around the dimly-lit room . |
| 8 | If you 're flying , take a spare set of undies , a pair of shorts and a top with you in your hand luggage — they 'll come in very handy if your suitcase goes on a trip around the world without you . |
| 9 | Skill makes men dextrous , but that does n't diminish the spectacle of a man leaping like a fox around corridors of coal too low to stand up , cramped with hydraulic props and coal-cutters . |
| 10 | ‘ Marvellous , ’ says Robert Hardy , and the word rings like an echo around every friend you meet . |
| 11 | Dezi 's visit to the showground continued with a canter around the main ring … and then he joined the grand parade . |
| 12 | Passengers travelling on the Indian-Pacific can join a Goldrush Tours coach for a spin around the town while the train changes engines and crew . |
| 13 | The courtly ceremonial acted as a veil around the naked reality of Mughal politics ; it was a mask which deliberately disguised the brutality and coarseness that lay hidden beneath . |
| 14 | From behind that altar the Reclusiarch lifted an oval convex mirror , framed by the spinal column of some alien bent into a hoop around it , the knobbly vertebrae enchased with potent runes . |
| 15 | Beringed hands waved in a frenzy around Miranda 's own boldly streaked , mane-like hair , and Belinda quickly paid and left , realising she had been very lucky to get squeezed in at the salon when so many women wanted to look special for Christmas . |
| 16 | Mars moves in an ellipse around the sun . |
| 17 | He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth . |
| 18 | Hari closed her book with a snap of finality , the outstanding balance she owed for the French calf hung like a weight around her neck . |
| 19 | Then one day I was standing there on a dune top , straining against the pull of the wind in the kite , gripping and hauling and sensing and adjusting and twisting , when one of those twists became like a strangle around Esmerelda 's neck , and the idea was there . |
| 20 | Use the extra time to go for a walk around the block , or even just round the building . |