Example sentences of "[vb past] around the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fran switched off the tape-recorder then glanced across the crowded foyer , immediately pin-pointing Luke in a group clustered around the door to the Council Chamber . |
| 2 | The need to make subjective judgement of , say , age before approaching a potential respondent tends to produce ages unevenly clustered around the middle of the age ranges which must , in any case , be broad to make the technique feasible . |
| 3 | In spring the garden is a feast of blossom and bulbs : snowflake or Loddon lilies clustered around the base of the trees , violet scillas scrambling down the banks and big , old-fashioned daffodils crowded around the mulberry tree . |
| 4 | The wolves clustered around the base of the tree looked up with interest at their next meal talking to himself . |
| 5 | The stuff relinquished its grip upon him readily enough , drifting away to join the main mass of the stuff as it clustered around the end of the Bridge , where some kind of subtle activity seemed to be taking place . |
| 6 | But in Stephen Jameson 's performance he looks like Beckett 's Pozzo or a Daily Worker cartoon of a bloated capitalist : bounced around the stage at one point like a rubber doll , he becomes a figure from a comedy of humours rather than a semi-Chekhovian fantasia . |
| 7 | The sound bounced around the cave of the shed . |
| 8 | After dark he grew restless and they had to tie him up to stop him following the jackals which howled around the village at night . |
| 9 | International players were made to look foolish as the ball swirled capriciously in the wind that howled around the ground from start to finish . |
| 10 | Leonora leaned back thankfully against the piled pillows , listening to the wind , which howled around the house like a hundred banshees demanding entry . |
| 11 | Then arrange some flowers in the vase , remembering to position a few so that they overlap the top of the vase to soften as many hard lines as possible , with perhaps one or two leaves or flowers ranged around the base of the vase for a more natural effect . |
| 12 | The vegetative part of the dodder plant is an epiphyte ( that is , a plant that grows on other plants ) consisting exclusively of thread-like , often yellowish vines partly coiled around the stem of its host and partly draped over it or hanging free . |
| 13 | Frankie peered around the angle of the wall , trying to measure the length of her chain before judging it safe to enter by the back door . |
| 14 | Pressing himself against the last wagon he peered around the side for any sign of the guards . |
| 15 | One hundred and one transient UOS relaxations occurred around the time of 60 ( 54% ) of the 112 common cavity episodes . |
| 16 | But most of the time she ignored the dogs that hovered around her as she slept in the sun or beavered around the village in pursuit of this or that scent . |
| 17 | He moved around the table to her and as he moved he spoke slowly and meaningfully . |
| 18 | Alina smiled , with some confidence but also a lot of apprehension still , and she moved around the table toward the door . |
| 19 | Prince and his followers lived a dissolute and ostentatious life of great luxury , and Prince drove around the neighbourhood in a carriage and horses , accompanied by bloodhounds . |
| 20 | Both of us strolled around the camp in an exaggerated swagger , saluting with panache and wearing our berets just above our eyes . |
| 21 | Then I strolled around the city for a couple of hours , knowing that Dana would not be awake before noon . |
| 22 | She strolled around the perimeter of the room as he poured the pale amber liquid , her fingers skimming over a small marble figure of a faun , then across a tiny enamelled box , and finally she paused before an oil-painting of a man . |
| 23 | And as he poked around the undergrowth for hidden poachers , another shot would ring out from the far end of the water . |
| 24 | Most passengers had got across , and even out of the station altogether when the Barnstaple to Taunton train came around the bend under the bridge . |
| 25 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 26 | Back on the veranda , the chairs were still empty , but before they could sit down there came the sound of footsteps and Faye Hamilton came around the corner of the house . |
| 27 | But as they came around the corner to the front of the house , they heard a familiar reedy voice hail them and , turning , found themselves confronted by Miss Merchiston herself , her pale eyes going from one to the other with the air of one who had known how it would be . |
| 28 | As Marian and Allen were taking in this scene one of the attackers slipped to one side and sidled around the tree towards the Friar 's unprotected flank . |
| 29 | The decisive decade for exploration had been the 1490s : Columbus reached the West Indies ( which at first he took to be a part of Japan ) , Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean , and Pope Alexander VI recognized that Spain 's new interest in expansion would clash with Portugal 's existing claims unless they were defined quickly . |
| 30 | She sailed around the world between 1872 and 1876 , under the scientific direction of Charles Wyville Thomson , and was equipped with a chemical laboratory and many other up-to-date scientific facilities . |