Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |
| 2 | ‘ He was the chap who owned the place around the turn of the century . |
| 3 | Paisley about faced and led the parade around the block so that it now came upon Fisherwick Place from the west . |
| 4 | He led the way around the edge of a marsh and then through drier land , with limestone boulders on it . |
| 5 | The island , a small green tree-covered expanse in the middle of a smooth , glassy lake , came into closer view , and edgily she cast a glance around the boat for some kind of weapon . |
| 6 | In the case of the bookmarks shown in the photograph on the opposite page , I drew a border around the section that encloses the flowers , not only to give them additional definition but also because the parallel lines at the base help to decorate the bookmark . |
| 7 | I found a boxful around the back . |
| 8 | The count built a wall around the town and reckoned he was secure . |
| 9 | They filled the aisle around the coffin and spilled on to the altar itself . |
| 10 | Nathaniel Sherman looked at his sons and beamed proudly as they joined the group around the governor . |
| 11 | When the interview ended , and Jean-Claude Meursault had risen , shaken her hand gravely , and then quickly joined the group around the camera at the end of the track to Miranda 's right , she began sketching in her small pad and taking the occasional photograph when the noise levels permitted . |
| 12 | He shone the torch around the room before entering . |
| 13 | Some , ‘ … wiser than the rest , lay their heads together and resolved in council to be before-hand ’ and went with picks and shovels and opened the land around the monument to a depth of six feet . |
| 14 | In an attempt to collect contaminated water , Greenaways dug a ditch around the dump enabling water to be removed by road tanker . |
| 15 | Twenty bobbies threw a cordon around the car to save him — and came under a hail of bricks , bottles , concrete blocks , kicks and punches . |
| 16 | An infra-red photograph of the King Stone taken in April 1979 at sunrise showed a glow around the stone and a ‘ ray ’ sloping off from it which photographic experts have not been able to explain . |
| 17 | Manager Ian Branfoot said : ‘ David got a fan around the head and perhaps he was a little over-enthusiastic . |
| 18 | Given the chance , I would have stayed watching or followed the kestrel around the park all day , but if I was on a shopping sortie with my mother , she was always in an incredible hurry , so that was n't possible . |
| 19 | Harvey was lounging full length across the sheepskin seats that followed the wall around the corner . |
| 20 | In Barnsley in the early 1950s men were even seen reading the ‘ green'un ’ over their partner 's shoulder as they mechanically steered the wife around the ballroom on a Saturday night . |
| 21 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 22 | Sikes quickly tied the rope around the chimney , then began to tie the other end around himself , ready to lower himself to the ground behind the house . |
| 23 | With about 10 minutes of the match to go Forrester collected the ball on the right edge of the penalty area after agood run from Kelly , turned and curled the ball around the goalie and into the opposite top corner of the net — a truely brilliant goal . |
| 24 | He established a township around the mills for his workers and called it Mossgiel , after the farm at Mauchline . |
| 25 | Their busy programme included a look around the sights of Norfolk . |
| 26 | Grimacing , she turned the key in the ignition once more , and brought the car around the way she had come . |
| 27 | An appeal by Landsbergis for Lithuanians to come to the defence of parliament was answered by several thousand people who formed a cordon around the building . |
| 28 | Having met with this problem on my first day , the following morning I wised-up and took a taxi around the harbour , half an hour before sunrise , to approach Farm Cove by way of the delightfully names Woolloomooloo Bay . |
| 29 | James Callaghan , when prime minister , would have the subjects he planned to raise on a piece of card , but often did n't bother to raise them , as they gossiped about politics or took a stroll around the gardens on summer evenings . |
| 30 | During the day hundreds of people took a trip around the harbour in Saltash steamers ’ . |