Example sentences of "[v-ing] around the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith is walking around the pool in his white 501s and his white ‘ Young Marlon ’ T-shirt . |
| 2 | What I would say is there are instances that have been happening around the country in the last year , where both doctors , G Ps , and nurses have actually said , you 're not doing that . |
| 3 | Even looking around the kitchen in order to make up the shopping lists is a task involving observation , forward thinking and memory . |
| 4 | Lissa asked , looking around the room in disbelief . |
| 5 | Malekith begins his great period of wandering around the world in search of magical artefacts of elder times . |
| 6 | He wore a thick woollen coat all the time , even on the hottest days of summer when he took to wandering around the garden in endless circles . |
| 7 | It 's a bit embarrassing to come staggering out of the mist , with a purple face , eyes lost in swollen , battered tissue , gasping for breath , to find people wandering around the path in cardigans and slacks . |
| 8 | Particularly in the USA , but also in the UK , we can see the signs of a movement developing around the belief in the value of critical thinking . |
| 9 | My lips felt engorged , there was a ringing in my ears , and I could feel the blood pumping around the veins in my head . |
| 10 | Mandy demanded as they continued along , strolling around the twist in the path and out into the open stretch of lawn . |
| 11 | It will be a real joy for me to begin getting around the diocese in the months ahead . |
| 12 | We may see rage in a bucking horse , acute anxiety in a solitary horse galloping up and down a fence , great fear in a horse that cowers and jams its tail down hard between its hind legs , or elation in a pony that has escaped from a yard and is prancing around the paddock in an exuberant high-stepping trot . |
| 13 | Thrusting and grinding around the stage in unison with her dancers , she made the message clear — ‘ I 'm no longer safe little Charlene ’ . |
| 14 | And later on , as she watched her skinny little husband skulking around the bedroom in his purple-striped pyjamas with a pork-pie hat on his head , she thought how stupid he looked . |
| 15 | I was present at Kidderminster on the day that Mark Ilott started charging around the outfield in painful discomfiture . |
| 16 | From Andy Pandy to ‘ Lord knows what he 's supposed to be , ’ staff at Putney spent the day collecting around the store in a variety of fancy dress costumes and raised £870 . |
| 17 | The five Annamese , grunting with pain continued stumbling and staggering around the circle in grotesque imitation of bounding hares while the next group of victims were thrown down in the dirt . |
| 18 | Harvey 's two kids were chasing around the trees in their pyjamas . |
| 19 | We disappear into the darkness , where nobody can see that we 're not rolling around the floor in paroxysms of ecstasy . |
| 20 | Puppies often tend to see coats as playthings at first , and try to pull them off their backs , rolling around the ground in the process . |
| 21 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 22 | The Muslim Palestinian defenders of Beaufort were ignorant of all this , sitting around the walls in silence when I told them of this historical the old tale of fear , treachery and pain . |
| 23 | The body convulsed , flopping around the roof in a series of uncoordinated half-somersaults , leaving a trail of blood like footprints . |
| 24 | Everyone thought there 'd be a roar of ribald laughter at that line if Puck happened to be hopping around the stage in plaster at the time . ’ |
| 25 | Frowning a little , he demanded , ‘ What were you doing , roaming around the back-streets in the dark ? ’ |
| 26 | In particular , the boys drift into and out of minor delinquencies while hanging around the streets in groups looking for something to do , as the following extract from his study illustrates . |