Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sound of a neck snapping echoed around the room . |
| 2 | It looked as if the rock had flowed around the pistol , curling strands of stone that gripped the barrel and the trigger-guard . |
| 3 | She was moving to the great gates and before Maggie could react the white-gowned figure had gone around the corner and out of sight . |
| 4 | A 30-strong team has worked around the clock since midnight on Saturday to build the stage and seating area for the hall in readiness for the sell-out performance , which starts at 7.30pm this evening . |
| 5 | A thirty-strong team has worked around the clock since midnight last Saturday to build the stage and tiered seating for the production . |
| 6 | While human evolution has oriented around the use of hand and eye , and developed down a highly visual and linear path , the dolphin mind has been on a very different track — acoustic , non-linear and non-manipulative . |
| 7 | Here we were in a restaurant where books on croquet lay scattered around the place . |
| 8 | It was n't until the launch had vanished around the tip of Vittoriosa , and the soaring golden bulk of Fort St Angelo , that she realised he had n't told her what time he expected her at Casa Sciorto tomorrow evening . |
| 9 | The same little girl who he had loved like his own , who had waved wildly at him until the train had disappeared around the bend . |
| 10 | She had seen a woman ride from the dark woods , screaming her grief , her clay-streaked hair streaming ; the woman had ridden around the pyre . |
| 11 | The main arguments which have led to the creation of the new tribunals with their own appellate tribunal have centred around the complexity of social security law , and yet there is no increased provision of funding for assistance through legal aid , law centres or welfare rights services . |
| 12 | The clamour begun earlier by the Japanese union had echoed around the world and seafarers ' unions in many countries were pressing for material recognition for the dangerous , difficult conditions in the Gulf . |
| 13 | Up to secondary school her life had revolved around the family and the Salvation Army . |
| 14 | Jack hit a few shots and when the headmaster had disappeared around the corner he strolled down to the green and dropped three or four balls into the hole ‘ just to make sure ’ . |
| 15 | Traditionally , controversy has centred around the question of whether local authorities should adopt best commercial practice , i.e. depreciation accounting , instead of the existing system . |
| 16 | A great deal of discussion has centred around the meaning of this word Paraclete . |
| 17 | In recent months the residents of the area around the bar had been complaining almost nightly to the police about the noise that went on until the small hours and about the hypodermics left strewn around the piazza , a serious health hazard to the children who played there during the day . |
| 18 | Interactionist approaches to crime and deviance have centred around the concept of labelling , with the term labelling theory sometimes used to refer to the Interactionist perspective on rule-breaking . |