Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] [noun] around [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I know little of Madrid , I do know that the ring road around it is best driven with the accelerator pedal through the floor , like all those maniacal Spanish drivers in front and behind you , the steering wheel gripped tightly , eyes shut and prayers in profusion to the Almighty for safe exit from the maelstrom . |
| 2 | The shoes were put in as a simple outline drawing in pencil and the background spaces around them were painted with a mixture of cerulean blue and titanium white . |
| 3 | They were passing thin poplars in a quiet so intense that you could hear the yellow poplar leaves dropping to the ground , on past an old stumpy church and a graveyard , with earthen walls and a beech hedge around it . |
| 4 | There is one line with a Kevlar core and a Dacron braid around it , known as Skybond . |
| 5 | The young man stood as stiff and straight as the church columns around him . |
| 6 | Silvia was screaming defiance , her lovely face as pale as the parchment walls around her . |