Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] around their " in BNC.
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| 1 | While these approaches may have a grain of truth in them , they founder in the evidence of women 's actual political activity around their own demands . |
| 2 | HE WAS NOT ALLOWED to go to school again until Thursday morning , by which time the missing button had been replaced on the collar of his shirt and he was wearing a pair of smart new shoes of polished black leather and knee-length grey socks with a dark red band around their tops . |
| 3 | Some sponges produce a soft flexible substance around their cells which supports the whole organism . |
| 4 | Mrs Aboud — she and her husband were both Israeli citizens — seemed resigned to this gradual destruction of the little mixed society around their home . |
| 5 | I imagined they were old and slow reptiles , too far gone to chase a sprightly private detective around their pit , content just to chew placidly on a hunk of dead cow . |