Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tumbled down into the hole like so many Alices and gazed in wonder around us . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , now it has the necessary imprimatur from the Pope , the Catechism will be sent for translation into dozens of languages and prepared for dispatch around the world . |
| 3 | The girl 's pink and white candy stripe skirt ( 26 stitches × 15 rows ) was removed on to a length of yarn so that the top could be drawn up and stitched in position around the waist ; the sides and hem of the skirt were then stitched down and a pink bow was added . |
| 4 | After that a bird — the same one or another — fell through the chimney into the grate and then fluttered and banged in terror around the room . |
| 5 | These had originally also been nomadic pastoralists , but even by the time of the Russian conquest were partly settled and engaged in agriculture around the Tatar towns such as Tara and Tyumen . |
| 6 | Since opposite charges attract , the reason why the electron does not gravitate towards the nucleus but stays in orbit around it ( even though it is radiating and losing its energy in doing so ) is because it retains a certain energy called ‘ ground-state energy ’ . |