Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] around the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they were noted even when cos Jim went down there a few , few times he used to have chaps running around the ground with chains and knives and all that sort of thing , but it 's in the Dockland area of London Millwall . |
| 2 | As George Ewart Evans documents in his book Where Beards Wag All , it was also common to see groups of workers strolling around the parish on Sunday mornings examining each other 's work , with much chafing and leg-pulling about their respective capabilities en route . |
| 3 | Patrick glanced out the window and caught sight of a troop of British tommies marching around the Green towards them , on the opposite side of the road . |
| 4 | You get all those those yobbos sitting around the sort of er the you know . |
| 5 | T. D. There were always twenty or thirty or so bucks hanging around the corner on Nichols Street , and if they saw you coming , they 'd all move . |
| 6 | Detailed research on local politics helps to indicate the complexity of practices and processes operating around the politics of local government , and hence points to some of the reasons underlying the recent diversity in local political activity . |
| 7 | Meanwhile the pair say that they 've had trouble in the past with vandalism and youths prowling around the back of the council owned flats . |
| 8 | Feverishly , Folly clutched at him , her arms twining around the broadness of his back ; her fingers raking his flesh . |
| 9 | Then 30 minutes back home again and about another four hours sitting around the house before retiring to bed . |
| 10 | Despite the noise and the modern dress of the customers , it was not difficult to imagine men with clay pipes sitting around the hearth of The Black Dog on windy , wet nights . |
| 11 | The types of issues that are involved concern not only theoretical issues revolving around the construction of social reality , conceptualization of personality and how humans process social information , but also methodological problems such as questionnaire and inventory design , for example in personality assessment . |
| 12 | ‘ You only had to look at the faces sitting around the table at base camp to know that they were physically and mentally finished . ’ |
| 13 | On warm sunny days you may see Red-eared Terrapins basking around the edge of the lake . |