Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] be [adv] around " in BNC.

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1 The smell is all around me ; it 's him ; it 's his sweat , his smell .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Let us never forget that although the environment is all around us , it is not unalterable , that to change it is to influence people , that ecology is potent , the more so because it is often unnoticed . ’
6 The sky was all around them , orange and crimson , passionate and dangerous .
7 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 .
8 The list is somewhere around
9 The hotel is just around the corner , maybe a few corners , but almost no distance .
10 He follows in the water until the sea is all around him .
11 The malais began to think a triumph was just around the corner .
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