Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path . |
| 2 | After travelling halfway around the globe to one of the remotest spots on Earth , encasing oneself in goosedown against the cold , mounting a snowmobile and riding through the vastness , the glimpse of a dark object starts the heart pounding . |
| 3 | Cylindrical ducts shield the propellers and increase thrust at low forward speeds , by preventing air from spilling sideways around the blade tips . |
| 4 | Robyn glanced down dejectedly at her scruffy jeans and paint-splattered top and then waited five seconds after the short , insistent ring , before peering suspiciously around the door . |
| 5 | There is quite a lot of skill in moving quickly around the documents you create . |
| 6 | She was too angry to run down at once to Electricity , had to calm herself by walking briskly around the streets , postponing thoughts about her father till later . |
| 7 | ‘ Schooling is not achieved by walking languorously around the property , listening to sweet words from the Englishman . ’ |
| 8 | This is done by moving clockwise around the board and answering questions of political trivia . |
| 9 | Charles Frederick was the odd one out in this respect — his feet were far too itchy to allow him to settle down into any sort of domesticity , and he would prove the fact in a dramatic enough way by sailing off around the world as soon as the opportunity presented itself . |
| 10 | Make a larger hole at the other end by working outward around the pin hole . |