Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] around the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The restoration also involved removal around the damage of old repaint which obscured some of the thumb prints which , uniquely in Poussin 's work , texture the whole picture surface .
2 Here , while he waited to embark the Susannah Anne bound for Hobart , he met with the offices from HMS Beagle , then on its third surveying voyage around the world under Commander John C. Wickham .
3 Gina paused to pass her approving gaze around the rest of the room .
4 Between 10 and 16 live whales were seen milling around the mouth of the Nene at 8.30 that morning ; low water was at midday , and at about 5 that afternoon the pod was seen swimming off to the north on the rising tide .
5 Continue on tracks heading east around the bottom of the tarn and after around ⅓ of a mile turn right and head south .
6 Firstly the hole , if wet , was dried out with a swabbing stick and wadding and the charge was then poured in , care being taken to avoid spillage around the mouth of the hole .
7 At least you know that 's true , that it is just a job , not the glamorous lifestyle that it appears to be , entailing flying around the world in private jets .
8 I met King around the time of Running In The Family , the follow-up to the all-conquering World Machine .
9 This usually takes place around the end of the fortieth week — 280 days — although in this as in so many aspects of sex and reproduction there is considerable variability .
10 The worst ozone destruction should take place around the turn of the century , as the chemicals rise into the stratosphere , followed by a gradual recovery in the ozone layer over the next 50-100 years .
11 In spite of the heat she climbed the supposed three hundred and sixty-five steps to the Calvary , losing count around the end of April so did n't know if it was true or not .
12 What took place around the time of the lunar eclipse in Aquarius on August 6th and again on the 18th , when both Venus and Jupiter were eclipsed by the Moon in your opposite sign of Leo , seems to have upset the applecart .
13 However , if you are a typical Piscean , then unexpected events or developments which took place around the time of the lunar eclipse in Aquarius on August 6th should have made you realise that you are now going through a phase when you must take certain drastic actions to safeguard your long-term comfort and security .
14 What took place around the time of the lunar eclipse on August 6th must have made you wonder what possessed you to enter into one particular agreement .
15 The incident had taken place around the back of the Berkeley cinema , with a very busty but willing land army girl .
16 As far as any of them knew , the last elephant fights had taken place around the turn of the century in the princely states of Rajputana ; and as for partridge fights , said my friends , those sorts of Mughal traditions had all died out at Partition .
17 He sees a movement away from a situation where there were extensive kin ties but a lack of really close relationships in the conjugal family , through the emergence of a family based on the patriarchal authority of the father , to a dominant form of family life which began to take shape around the middle of the seventeenth century , and was characterized by close emotional bonds between parents and children and a strong sense of privacy in the nuclear family household .
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