Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] around [art] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He idly pushed around the salt and pepper to avoid meeting anyone 's eyes , and then he took out a sachet from the sugar bowl and looked at it with curiosity . |
| 2 | Each programme is individually designed around the interests and needs of the student . |
| 3 | But when you 've got a full field to harvest at least you 're getting something but when you 're just going around the edges and picking the bits that are left behind that is a hard job you 're spending as long but you 're not getting as much . |
| 4 | In fact , they just walked around the corner and got into Agnes 's rented car . |
| 5 | It was a middle-aged face , deeply wrinkled around the mouth and on the forehead , and artificially tanned . |
| 6 | Extensively renovated in 1986 , it remains a Leith landmark and the last remaining example of a windmill tower in this area , other than a number of ‘ doocots ’ still dotted around the Lothians and barely recognisable as windmill towers of the past . |
| 7 | She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid . |
| 8 | It is also built around a client and contact database , so it has a marketing benefit . |
| 9 | Faith and I also flew around the pattern and it felt great despite small problems with the tape out on the aircraft to protect the patches stitched on in Bangkok . |
| 10 | Blue-bellied , porphyry-crowned musk and little lorikeets also flocked around the town and provided Gould with easy targets . |
| 11 | The rural community is now organized around the farm and farming and defined in opposition to the urban newcomers . |
| 12 | The controversy about worthwhile reading often revolves around the books and stories of Enid Blyton , so these will be given some attention . |
| 13 | Low raised beaches are well represented around the south and west coasts of Great Britain , less well on the east coast , and particularly well on the west coast of Scotland . |
| 14 | Cover the cake with the appropriate pieces of fondant — for the front side with the holes , gently press on before neatly cutting around the holes and removing the pieces of surplus fondant . |
| 15 | Their examination of Luton again found that the contemporary working class politics is essentially organised around the support and benefit of self and family . |
| 16 | Sociobiology also envisages long-term evolution and adaptations of animals ( including human beings ) as essentially organised around the reproduction and expansion of animal and human life . |
| 17 | These bunkers , beautifully trimmed around the edges and beautifully raked , looked innocent and defenceless — an illusion , as I knew , brought on by the fresh and shining morning . |