Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] around [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yeah , ’ he drawls , rolling chewing gum around his mouth and pausing for dramatic effect . |
| 2 | They placed a lavatory chain around his neck and hoisted him off his feet . |
| 3 | It was from something on a thin silver chain around her neck , and after snapping it free he stood up to inspect his find in the available light . |
| 4 | With a tea cloth around her hand she opened up the oven and took out the mince pies and sausage rolls , placing them on the top of the stove to cool as she put the turkey in to cook . |
| 5 | Beside the duke was the young king , a silver chaplet around his head . |
| 6 | Frowning , she twisted the topaz ring around her finger . |
| 7 | She hesitated , winding the coils of the telephone wire around her finger , adding with a frosty note of sarcasm , ‘ At least , no , that 's not true . |
| 8 | Kitty sat nude before the bathroom mirror , knotting a towel turban-style around her head . |
| 9 | You took a taxi and I was discovered with a length of picture cord around my neck … ’ |
| 10 | Dressed as he rarely was these days , in evening togs and carrying an opera hat , a white silk scarf around his neck , he was , at ten o'clock at night , completely sober , although the group he was with , headed by his brother Stair , and Havelock , usually known as Havvie , Marquess of Blaine , heir of the Duke of Innescourt , whose stag party night this was , were all three-parts drunk . |
| 11 | They put a safety rope around my waist just in case . |
| 12 | ‘ However , ’ Corbett continued , clasping his sword belt around his waist , ‘ one thing I do remember is that the preacher was really a gentle man ; he told my mother that Holy Mother Church merely wished to frighten its children except — ’ Corbett narrowed his eyes and looked through the doorway ‘ — for murderers , those who slay , especially the sons of Cain who plot with ice-cold malice the destruction of someone they hate . ’ |
| 13 | He shook his head a fraction and his gaze slid to the door and back — but even searching the hyacinth radiance around his head she could not guess what he really meant to do . |
| 14 | He twisted a bathrobe belt around her neck and forced her on to a bed before raping her twice in July 1991 . |
| 15 | A Masai who acquitted himself well in hand-to-hand fighting in Burma during the Second World War was allowed to keep the samurai sword he captured : ‘ Please do not take this sword away from this soldier ’ , the man 's commanding officer wrote on the wound tag around his neck , ‘ He is a Masai . ’ |
| 16 | There are pieces on gospel choirs in the Deep South , Gaultier penknife combs , and the new Manchester club fashion for wearing a plastic robot around your neck . |
| 17 | And now for a cup of tea , she thought , stepping out to wind a large bath towel around her nakedness . |
| 18 | ‘ Move ! ’ she whispered , and to her intense surprise , almost at once , the cigar with its little red and gold paper band around its middle rolled away across the top of the dressing-table and fell on to the carpet . |
| 19 | David Papps walks his dog Champ around his home at Matson in Gloucester on a lead , after being ordered to pay what dog wardens believe is the stiffest fine so far for breaking new laws on dog control . |
| 20 | The animal , alarmed by such rapid movement , now sprang to his full height , his great unsheathed paws beating the air as he strained at the massive steel collar around his neck . |
| 21 | An LTTE leader in Vavuniya , carrying a cyanide capsule around his neck . |
| 22 | A DISTRAUGHT oil worker wrapped a cartridge belt around his waist and placed the barrels of a loaded shotgun in his mouth during a three-day police siege at a remote country cottage . |
| 23 | Tallis ran to Swimmer of Lakes and flung herself across its back , twisting into a sitting position and quickly flinging a simple rope harness around its neck . |
| 24 | It contracts about seventy times a minute pumping blood around our body . |
| 25 | But like , it was alright then because like means that you can changed up in this one corner of the changing room all the time and so I 'd got my shirt on while I was putting my T-shirt on like for the reason that my bra strap was bust , not actually because I 'd got a gigantic love bite around my neck ! |
| 26 | Barbara takes off her shirt and wraps a blue chiffon nightie around her waist ; while Elena is in the loo , she opens her purse and shows me a picture of her six-year-old daughter . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm building my working life around my family , ’ I could imagine them explaining to puzzled spouses . |
| 28 | a Human skull on one table has a circle of copper banding around its forehead . |
| 29 | I came and started tidying up bits and pieces of cut-off material around my mum on the floor . |
| 30 | She commenced wrapping a blood pressure cuff around his arm . |