Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] around the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you approve of these changes happening all around the edges of our towns , or should something different be done ? |
| 2 | She was too angry to run down at once to Electricity , had to calm herself by walking briskly around the streets , postponing thoughts about her father till later . |
| 3 | I told Karen that I was visiting factories and offices in the Oxford area and sounding out the management with a view to future co-operation , but in fact my mornings were spent driving aimlessly around the highways and byways of rural Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | The lid stopped it all from falling out when you tipped it over and the air is getting in around the cracks in the lid . |
| 5 | Burbling innocuously around the moorings , buoys , isolated pilings and crazily speeding windsurfers with the occasional whiff of avgas mixed with salt spray and hot oil , we towered over all the other waterway users — except the super-tankers bound for foul Fawley . |
| 6 | There is quite a lot of skill in moving quickly around the documents you create . |
| 7 | Sooner or later she 'd end up drifting innocently around the bins . |
| 8 | I inspected the room in the faint light coming in around the shutters . |
| 9 | The two men , who were completely sober despite their time in the bar , moved away to stand against the cracked plaster walls of the buildings to either side of the main road , glancing quickly around the corners to check for traffic . |
| 10 | There were no chairs or tables in the kitchens , so we ate it standing up around the cookers and stoves . |
| 11 | Limp orange light was leaking in around the edges of a grey blind . |
| 12 | Even now , he remembered with a shudder the appalling loneliness of Sunday afternoon , spent trailing noisily around the streets with a group of equally neglected youths , returning to the empty home to eat his supper while the television set bawled commercials at him to fill the silence , until he heard the scrape of his mother 's key in the lock . |
| 13 | It was curling out around the edges of the large double doors and for a moment or two Benny stopped and stared , then with a shout of alarm he ran across the road as fast as he could and pulled on the hanging padlock flap . |