Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] around [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was walking around with a camera and binoculars right on top of their nuclear silos . |
| 2 | By the time I was eight-years-old I was going around with a prostitute . |
| 3 | She was hanging around with a bunch of amateurs in Hell . |
| 4 | It was kicked around like a football from family to family , none of whom seemed to have loved it or to have been able to hold on to it for long . |
| 5 | Up for re-election in 1952 , he was looking around for a cause that would be electorally popular , and found it in anti-communism . |
| 6 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 7 | ‘ He was shoved around by a few other prisoners , ’ said a guard at the Bois d'Arcy prison , outside Paris . |
| 8 | Now if he did n't shave his hair off and he was walking around with a rim round the side of his head |
| 9 | No , he was n't , because his head came up and he threw himself back on the ground behind him and he was rolling around in a heap of laughter . |
| 10 | They wore the motley coat of jesters and one of them was hopping around on a hobby horse . |