Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] around a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks out across wide lawns to mild uneventful Northamptonshire countryside , and the private road which runs in front of it winds down into Hulcote , a beauti — ful horseshoe-shaped model village built around a generous green . |
| 2 | She dreamt of a life in a Tuscan farmhouse , with an ancient barn built around a central courtyard , bathed in the apricot hues of an Italian sun . |
| 3 | Out on the fringes of the Vartaq Veil , looking for traces of her lost father , she had been part of a team excavating a Dyson sphere constructed around a white dwarf star . |
| 4 | The oldest of the three by far was Carlism , a popular cause built around a dynastic dispute within the Spanish royal house of Borbón . |
| 5 | The sun , the clear sky , the bright colours , the prosperous look of this lively , airy university town and wine-growing capital ; the stalls massed with flowers ; fresh fish shining pink and gold and silver in shallow baskets ; cherries and apricots and peaches on the fruit barrows ; one stall piled with about a ton of little bunches of soup or pot-au-feu vegetables — a couple of slim leeks , a carrot or two , a long thin turnip , celery leaves , and parsley , all cleaned and neatly bound with a rush , ready for the pot ; another charcuterie stall , in the covered part of the market , displaying yards of fresh sausage festooned around a pyramid-shaped wire stand ; a fishwife crying pussy 's parcels of fish wrapped tidily in newspaper ; an old woman at the market entrance selling winkles from a little cart shaped like a pram ; a fastidiously dressed old gentleman choosing tomatoes and leaf artichokes , one by one , as if he were picking a bouquet of flowers , and taking them to the scales to be weighed ( how extraordinary that we in England put up so docilely with not being permitted by greengrocers or even barrow boys to touch or smell the produce we are buying ) ; a lorry with an old upright piano in the back threading round and round the market place trying to get out . |