Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [was/were] [adv] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Brigade was still around the village and things got a bit quieter I would keep that date , and treat them to British steak and kidney , etc . |
| 2 | He believed that the government had lost credibility , first by denying that any recession ever existed , then by claiming it was only minor , then by claiming that though perhaps it was severe the recovery was just around the corner . |
| 3 | Our research was designed to ensure that the field-worker was also around a great deal and was stubborn in exploiting the naturally occurring situations of privacy , where natural conversation is inevitable because it is interactionally difficult to abstain from it , such as in the back of vehicles , in the sanger while on guard duty , relaxing in many of the recreational rooms , or off duty . |
| 4 | The sky was all around them , orange and crimson , passionate and dangerous . |
| 5 | In November he gave an address at the Mary Institute ; the ghosts of the past were all around him as he spoke of the door into the schoolyard , the corridors , the whisperings of his enclosed childhood world . |
| 6 | The malais began to think a triumph was just around the corner . |