Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb pp] around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she remembered then the old adage tossed around the dinner table by her parents ' friends , when the drink had loosened their tongues , and things were said that stuck in the mind like grit in the eye . |
| 2 | A low whispering sound echoed around the room . |
| 3 | How about a restaurant set in the vaults of a medieval monastery , lit by candles and with a menu that owes its variety to the best raw material found around the world ? |
| 4 | As his sardonic laugh echoed around the bedroom Laura suddenly realised how some people were driven to murder their tormentors . |
| 5 | It was therefore a disaster for towns in the north , particularly those that contained a high proportion of terraced property built around the turn of the century . |
| 6 | Like Iran , Morocco was ( and still is ) governed by an educated but often corrupt elite gathered around the person of the King . |
| 7 | The holy , rather , formed the permanent context of life , always and everywhere present , animating a community larger than the little group gathered around the altar , ready at any moment to manifest blessing or power , at special moments or special places . |
| 8 | Her arms flew to pieces amid the workings of the waldoes , and below the waist , a skirt of skin , blood , flesh and splintered bone hung around the leg mechanisms . |
| 9 | Joseph could see tufts of grizzled hair protruding from beneath the sweat-soaked turban wrapped around the head of his aged coolie and he did n't have the heart to order him to gallop . |
| 10 | The Black Country Museum is an open-air complex developed around the site of a group of lime-kilns , near the northern entrance to a tunnel on the Dudley Canal . |
| 11 | As with his other borrowing , the " log " — a four- to six-pound weight hung around the child 's neck — he was trying " to copy this progressive idea of the age " . |
| 12 | Thumping good read set around the dissolution of the monasteries . |
| 13 | Chatterton raised his cardboard cup in silent acknowledgement , then stared ahead to where a great beam swept around the sky . |
| 14 | He was out of the room before she could open the box , a dark blue leather affair , lined with white velvet , against which lay a fine gold chain with a small oval locket set around the edge with seed pearls . |
| 15 | Horrified witnesses watched helplessly as the blazing man staggered around the square before collapsing . |
| 16 | Building societies said the fall in net new commitments was not unexpected despite increased activity reported around the country in the past two months . |
| 17 | In late 1992 , much political debate centred around the government 's determination to keep expenditure plans for 1993/ 94 within the specified ‘ planning total ’ of 244.5bn . |
| 18 | One scuffed heavy shoe is braced against the floor , the other dangles in space , with the turn-up riding high above it to reveal a thick grey sock crumpled around the ankle . |
| 19 | Another important gold item is a body chain of a type worn by wealthy women : the double chain passed around the neck then under the breasts and round the back , secured by decorative medallions at the centre front and back . |
| 20 | Several colleges , which are unable to mount formal evening classes because of lack of student numbers , have instead developed various systems of flexible learning based around the Institute 's CAL courses . |
| 21 | This new , familiar girl fussed around the table , patting at the rotting food as if plumping a baby 's eiderdown , waiting , waiting , waiting for the guests to arrive . |
| 22 | We were told , because of the shortage of paper , we were told only to use secondhand papers er paper that had already been used for letters or memos when writing to the Clerks ' Department and erm we erm used to get the grubbiest paper that we could and then you had to condense it and type it erm without too much space and erm that went over to the Clerks ' Department , then erm when it got over th oh sorry you had to trim off the edges erm so that there was no spare paper left around the memo so that er you know there was just this little bit of paper with the |
| 23 | While a small crowd collected around the barrel-organ , a policeman idled across to the pile of rags , thrust his boot into it and said something inaudible . |
| 24 | Well , the gravestone certainly stands by the porch and it does have a hole drilled through it , said to have been where the iron stake was hammered through the stone into the coffin , but I 'm afraid that I agree with the general consensus voiced around the bar of the Sun Inn and the George and Dragon that George Hodgson was guilty of nothing but old age , that the only thing he sucked were his gums , and that the hole in the stone was made for a railing or gatepost . |
| 25 | Le Corbusier 's ideas transformed nineteenth century ideas of snug domesticity grouped around the fire into a concept of family life surrounded by pure form , centrally heated in space , with kitchens only delineated and separated by cupboard fitments . |
| 26 | Ms Alberstein 's song is a powerful modern version of an ancient Aramaic ballad sung around the Passover ‘ Seder ’ table by Jews celebrating the Exodus from Egypt . |
| 27 | Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir took steps in mid-November to crush internal opposition based around the labour movement . |
| 28 | Any substantive disagreement centred around the issue of what role social deprivation and unemployment had in bringing young people to protest violently on the streets . |
| 29 | The " original " part of the design was a round bar welded around the top . |
| 30 | Concerns are also being expressed about the impact of measures taken to contain the accident , including the security of the concrete sarcophagus built around the core . |