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 . |