Example sentences of "[noun sg] around a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the parts were more difficult to make than others — the curves of the bonnet , for instance , were achieved by shaping aluminium around a length of pipe — but a few , like the wind-screen , had to be bought at auto jumbles . |
| 2 | Okay well it will be interesting to see what er what other people have , have said about it because I was sort of fishing around a bit in the dark and looking at the stats manual |
| 3 | " We were asked to design a machine around a chassis from a Taiwanese supplier , " he says . |
| 4 | For a high-tea or supper meal spread smoked haddock paste on fingers of hot toast and arrange them in a circle around a dish of scrambled eggs . |
| 5 | In front of the building is a row of white-painted stones and some cactus-like sisal plants forming a circle around a patch of grass . |
| 6 | On a square or round table they can be arranged in a circle around a group of tall candles or a bowl of fruit . |
| 7 | Two youths chased each other around a pile of rucksacks and their girls were shrill in encouragement . |
| 8 | The USSR Space Committee has agreed to pay 1.5 million roubles compensation to the district of Kazakhstan for extensive dumping and pollution around a cosmodrome at Baykonur . |
| 9 | Beside the ruin , the grass had been scythed to rough ankle-length around a handful of old gravestones and an incon-gruously clean slab of veined grey marble that lay glinting in the sun . |
| 10 | Movement around a page of text is made easier still by the use of the Page Up , Page Down , Home and End keys . |
| 11 | Although much of the area around a pool at this time may be exposed rock , the gobies never land on it . |
| 12 | And if you rub a lemon slice around a bowl before whisking egg whites , you 'll get a better result . |
| 13 | The system will allow the vessel , designed for up to 20 years of service , to weathervane around a turret near the bow while shuttle tankers collect cargoes to transport ashore . |
| 14 | She was crooking her finger around a cup of Earl Grey . |
| 15 | Another study suggested that a subject would need to breathe aerosolised air around a shower for 227 minutes to inhale one bacterial cell . |
| 16 | But Mason insists on his ‘ entirely objective intentions ’ : the music is ‘ a guided tour around a chorus of the main English and Welsh lighthouses ( and Fog Signal characters and Equipment ) , from the Solway Firth to the Farne Islands , some of which were notated ‘ in the field ’ … each lighthouse is portrayed solo , in turn , with accompanying pre-echoes and after-images of the others ’ . |
| 17 | Instead , build your army around a core of reliable troops such as Black Orcs , Big'uns , or Boar Boyz . |
| 18 | Until the election was called he has had to fit his campaigning around a job as senior business development officer for North Tyneside council . |
| 19 | OK , educate the child , educate the dog , but I could never let a child of mine walk around a ring with a big , powerful dog like that , because it is a big , powerful vicious beast . |
| 20 | I have , as it happens , a 1,000 rouble note , worth around a quid at yesterday 's prices . |
| 21 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 22 | Richmann had found a couple of his men in one of the city 's bars , and dragged them out to take up position around a junction in the northern poor quarter . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's nice to see a young lady what knows her way around a kitchen for a change . |
| 24 | This use of diagrams enables students both to find their way around a text without losing themselves in the irrelevant detail of intensive reading , and also to identify parts without having to name them . |
| 25 | Two rocky bodies , masses m 1 and m 2 , densities d 1 and d 2 , are in orbit around a planet of mass M. Both bodies are several hundred kilometres diameter . |
| 26 | Pupils from the age of 14 will study a balanced curriculum around a core of maths , English , science and a foreign language , adding specialisms in academic , vocational or technical courses , some delivered by employers in the workplace . |
| 27 | As it came away from the cold flesh , so she cut it into strips , and she wrapped each strip of skin around a piece of bone . |
| 28 | Estate agent Stephanie , 25 , was kidnapped in January as she showed a prospective buyer around a house in Great Barr , Birmingham . |
| 29 | There were probably machines that could have lowered and pulled up the basket easily , but he 'd preferred to loop the wire around a pillar inside the Ship and , with Pion helping inside , to pull themselves up and down by sheer nomish effort . |
| 30 | Since estate agent Suzy Lamplugh ( right ) disappeared while showing an unnamed client around a house in west London , the Suzy Lamplugh Trust has been involved in a scheme to prevent this from happening again . |