Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] [vb past] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was clear of the goat herds and the sheep that grazed around the village , he moved down to the river that was a tributary of the distant Tigris . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've never seen the church so crowded for a funeral , ’ said William 's nan proudly , though there was a hint of suspicion in the eyes that gazed around the congregation . |
| 3 | International players were made to look foolish as the ball swirled capriciously in the wind that howled around the ground from start to finish . |
| 4 | But most of the time she ignored the dogs that hovered around her as she slept in the sun or beavered around the village in pursuit of this or that scent . |
| 5 | He picked up the lamp and looked around the room . |
| 6 | She quickly disappeared out the back and came around the front to greet me . |
| 7 | We crossed the traffic that divided around the Clock Tower and entered the Lanes . |
| 8 | So I sat down on a chair that stood by the counter and looked around the shop while waiting for Mary to emerge from behind the colourful painted screen where she was trying things on . |
| 9 | He also received an honorary degree at Harvard University — it is a measure of his popularity , perhaps , that when he was at a reception there with E. M. Forster the students and teachers ignored the novelist and crowded around the poet . |
| 10 | As Taff started to cook the first half-dozen eggs I went along the road that ran around the village and passed near to the orchard . |
| 11 | He paused at the word and looked around the table . |
| 12 | Richard 's brother Charles told stories about the creatures that lived around the black loch which lay hidden at the mountain 's crest . |
| 13 | Later , Schellenberg called for his Mercedes and they drove to the Tiergarten and walked around the lake , feet crunching in the light powdering of snow . |
| 14 | The old order changeth , and how — back at the end of the 1970s , Ted Dexter and Honeywell Information Systems Ltd got together to propose to the British Broadcasting Corporation that television coverage of cricket could be enhanced with a little judicious computer intervention and the age of computer-aided sports broadcasting was born : for a decade and more a Level 6 minicomputer or successor followed the cameras and trundled around the cricket grounds of England and Wales in the back of a truck as Honeywell and successor company Bull HN Information Systems Ltd maintained the tradition — but with the first one-day match of the current series against Australia at Old Trafford yesterday , what was the legend at the bottom of the caption but ‘ Intel processing ’ . |
| 15 | Striped deck chairs had gone from the long , grey stretch of shingle below the Promenade , and the fairy-lights that spiralled around the white lampposts were never turned on after the beginning of October for reasons of economy . |
| 16 | I said I had to piss , but I ran out of the house and walked around the streets wondering what the fuck to do and trying to imagine what Dad was saying to Mum and how she was taking it . |
| 17 | Our close friend Bobby Radiasa , whom we trained as a soundman and took around the islands on our last expedition , was amongst the first intrepid handful of Bali 's surfers . |
| 18 | , section manager produce at Feltham , lived up to his reputation as being ‘ fruity ’ when he dressed as a tomato and collected around the store . |
| 19 | The slap landed against the side of his head with a crack that echoed around the room . |
| 20 | Michael sat himself down in an armchair and looked around the room slowly . |
| 21 | Nava was a truly radical concept : a soft skiboot ( an enhanced moonboot , in fact ) with its own binding system that incorporated an arm that wrapped around the lower leg to transmit edging movements to the ski . |