Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [verb] around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think what 's very striking about the report which the students ' union have recently published and are circulating around the university , is the extent to which they have tended to define sexual harassment as being as much or at least as much a problem between students , a problem of behaviour between students and a problem of the sort of atmosphere in the colleges in terms of how that affects how peoples lives feel and and how they are how their behaviour what sort of behaviour is acceptable . |
| 2 | We had finished dinner and were sitting around the campfire . |
| 3 | Thus , amongst policemen and women working in ‘ hard ’ areas of high tension , policing in Easton is abused as family disputes and barking dogs , a caricature which many respondents hold and is even reproduced by constables at Easton : ‘ One minute you could be called out , someone 's budgie has escaped and is flying around the living-room . |
| 4 | In 1968–9 I wrote a novel , The Snow-White Soliloquies , which tells the story of a girl who endures a living death in a glass coffin , and is trailed around the country in a glass vehicle by a motley collection of social misfits ( dwarves ) under the supervision of a sinister authority-figure called Doc . |
| 5 | We may see rage in a bucking horse , acute anxiety in a solitary horse galloping up and down a fence , great fear in a horse that cowers and jams its tail down hard between its hind legs , or elation in a pony that has escaped from a yard and is prancing around the paddock in an exuberant high-stepping trot . |
| 6 | NetWare is already available with HyperDesk Corp 's Distributed Object Management System , HD-DOMS , which in turn is being integrated with ObjectStore , and is based around the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture . |
| 7 | At all events , the mediaeval part of the village developed at the junction of the rivers Cerniog and Carno , before the latter reached the Severn , and is grouped around the church and the site of a Roman camp . |
| 8 | Until now we have been concerned with how water gets into and is distributed around the house , sometimes being heated on the way . |
| 9 | The two trucks into which the Taste Sensation packs and is transported around the country were custom built for the job . |
| 10 | Lerissa had weighed anchor ( breaking a 56lb Danforth in the process , her owner told me next day ) and was wandering around the anchorage looking for a new parking place . |
| 11 | The Doctor had stood up and was pacing around the room . |
| 12 | This could be heard approaching from some distance off , owing to its lack of an exhaust pipe , and was known around the camp as the Green Devil because it had , once upon a time , been that colour all over , instead of just in places as now . |