Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The band had made an album with RCA for £30,000 and sold 500,000 copies around the world and had a Top Five hit with ‘ Crash ’ . |
| 2 | Finally I twisted together lengths of red and white yarn to make a rope for the sledge and stitched some stars around the moon to add to the frosty effect . |
| 3 | As more East Germans joined the cries for help , the diplomat burst through the front door and sprinted 300 yards around the embassy perimeter until he reached the grotesque tug-of-war . |
| 4 | In 1980 , just after the revolution , the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights visited Nicaragua and inspected ten prisons around the country . |
| 5 | Stick the stencil in position using masking tape and cover any areas around the designs that may be accidentally brushed with colour |
| 6 | Somewhere to loll and lounge and enjoy long suppers around the farmhouse table by the light of a paraffin lamp on late summer evenings . |
| 7 | With King 6-4 ahead and lying two shots around the jack , Corsie produced a perfectly weighted bowl that threaded its way between King 's two counters to take shot . |
| 8 | With King 6-4 ahead and lying two shots around the jack , Corsie produced a perfectly weighted bowl that threaded its way between King 's two counters to take shot . |
| 9 | The firelight danced on the old oak walls and threw strange shadows around the room . |
| 10 | In the space of just four years — 1965 to 1968 — seventy-four nuclear plants were ordered by companies and state electrical authorities around the United States . |
| 11 | Chairman Cecil Robinson said that in its first 12 months the group collected furniture from 949 separate addresses and delivered 666 items around the town . |
| 12 | Electrical retailer Rumbelows said last week it would not now take Unit 12 , one of the larger shops in the centre , after the national chain announced it would streamline its business and close several shops around the country . |
| 13 | Scrolling through documents is noticeably faster , but the main boost is noticed when moving big chunks around the screen — grabbing a window and shifting it results in a much faster update than you would see with a bog standard VGA card — even a Tseng Labs ET4000 chip set unit ( the ET4000 chipset is probably the fastest of the non-accelerated chipsets ) . |