Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been beaten around the head . |
| 2 | He 'd been beaten around the head . |
| 3 | He 'd been beaten around the head and his throat had been cut . |
| 4 | ‘ Actually , I 'd been hanging around the street for quite some time . |
| 5 | He appealed to the pseudo-science of ‘ phrenology ’ , which had been built around the assumption that the shape of the brain determined a person 's character . |
| 6 | This was by no means an accident , since throughout the 1970s a powerful body of media , political , and academic opinion had been constructed around the theme of how Britain was drifting into a ‘ violent society ’ , and how the basis of consent was being shifted by the pressures of immigration and the growth of multi-racial inner city areas . |
| 7 | Lizzy 's attempted suicide had been whispered around the station by now , she was sure . |
| 8 | Many more youngsters had been dispatched around the world in Operation Raleigh , and he felt there must be a way for every young person to experience these kind of benefits . |
| 9 | A gallery had been suspended around the wall at the height of two standing men — the only concession to spectators . |
| 10 | The last of the mines had been closed around the time of Tace 's birth and the entrances to the shafts had been closed or blocked by rockfalls . |
| 11 | Pictures of the dead men had been circulated around the jury . |
| 12 | We went back upstairs to find that all the contents of our lockers had been thrown out over the floors , mixed up , trampled on , and that the lockers themselves had been hurled around the room , across the beds , which had been stripped , and out of the doors . |