Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] around [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OK , educate the child , educate the dog , but I could never let a child of mine walk around a ring with a big , powerful dog like that , because it is a big , powerful vicious beast . |
| 2 | M. Dupont resumed his conversation and I continued my way around the room for some moments . |
| 3 | Seeking to remedy this sad state of affairs , I browsed my way around the bookshop from floor to floor , upstairs and down and in and out of little book-filled rooms that the owners themselves may have forgotten about . |
| 4 | It 's almost 17 years since I was last hauled up a mountainside with a metal bar across my bum , two poles in one hand and my arm around the anorak of an unknown Austrian whose only English was ‘ Bend ze knees ’ and ‘ Open ze legs ’ . |
| 5 | And it evinces a rather daring readiness to weave its fiction around the world of work , where private lives are inextricably bound up with talk of profit margins and raw materials . |
| 6 | She ran her forefinger around the inside of the white pyrex bowl and said nothing . |
| 7 | Ace poked her head around the stone with the idea of following , but covering fire from Richmann blasted chunks from the stone and forced her to duck back again . |
| 8 | She was crooking her finger around a cup of Earl Grey . |
| 9 | She smiled and ran her finger around the top of her coffee cup . |
| 10 | Donna nodded slowly , drawing her finger around the lip of the cup . |
| 11 | She would even leave the company of the other horses and follow her owner around the paddock in the hope of a cuddle . |
| 12 | Ensure that you know the location of the bridle mark and are familiar with its movement around the rim of the connecting ring at any stage of adjustment . |
| 13 | This move formed the basis for the human sciences which , through their organization around the figure of man , once more brought about a unity to History . |
| 14 | Light was fading as she wheeled her cycle around the side of their semi-detached house in Yonder , and propped it against the fence . |
| 15 | The party are pictured enjoying a five-star lunch after their trip around the maltings with distilling director , ( standing ) , Buckie 's general manager , ; from Kentford and from Carnoustie . |
| 16 | Old ships never die and doubtless she is still knocking around the East Coast , though I suppose old Payne may have made his last port by now I should be interested in an oil painting on canvas , or board ( which I suppose would come a bit cheaper ! ! ) showing her beating around the Foreland under sail in fairly heavy weather , say Force 6 … ’ |
| 17 | This use of diagrams enables students both to find their way around a text without losing themselves in the irrelevant detail of intensive reading , and also to identify parts without having to name them . |
| 18 | They had to pick their way around the rest of it , because the floors were mainly gone , although some big holes still had carpet laid across them . |
| 19 | This is of little consequence to grubs and maggots , for they hold their interminable feasts out of sight of the rest of the world , gobbling their way around the heart of an apple or gnawing tunnels in wood , shielded by what they are eating . |
| 20 | Because there was no sign that Marian and Allen had regained the highway ahead of them the verderers agreed that there were three possibilities : the first , that the children would lie hidden for some time in dense woodland until it was safe for them to return to the ride ; the second , that they would try to work their way around the Swamp to the north but that since they would be away from paths this would be difficult and slow ; and the third , that they might try to reach the outlaws ' camp by passing the Swamp to the south . |
| 21 | Consider the following extract which aims to help students find their way around the parts of a textbook . |
| 22 | So really , this is no more wonderful than a dolphin learning its way around the complexities of its natural marine environment so that it may find — and catch — the best shoals of fish . |
| 23 | He speaks of one of the ‘ largest and compleatest works in the kingdom for making iron and steel wire ’ , much of which found its way around the county in the form of ‘ cards ’ for the woollen industry . |
| 24 | Fen did n't answer , but instead of continuing straight up to the house he took a fork in the drive which then wound its way around the perimeter of the grounds , inside the high boundary walls . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's nice to see a young lady what knows her way around a kitchen for a change . |
| 26 | Public criticism led to speculation she might be asked to pay tax , but with characteristic diplomatic skill she negotiated her way around the problem with the minimum of publicity . |
| 27 | WALL 'S : The company 's great breakthrough came when they decided to buy trikes to sell their ice-cream around the streets in the 1920s . |
| 28 | Nu built his team around the nucleus of surviving Ministers . |
| 29 | James poked his head around the door of the office adjacent to Stephen 's . |
| 30 | As Zen approached his office , the inspector who had been trying to trace Ubaldo Valesio 's movements poked his head around the door of the next room . |