Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun sg] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enveloping box is also retained , followed by a primary set of silhouettes constructed in each orthogonal direction by automatically driving a chain around the border . |
| 2 | And driving a car around the centre is an exercise in frustration at the best of times . |
| 3 | A large open wound remained which was dressed by dry lint and the arteries were tied off by passing a ligature around the entire mass of vessels . |
| 4 | The latter move prompted the government to retaliate by establishing a blockade around the island and withdrawing all services from the inhabitants . |
| 5 | Parallel transporting a vector around the loop ABCDA induces changes which are calculated using eqn ( 6.10 ) . |
| 6 | Simply building a wall around the top of the well breaks the cycle . |
| 7 | It is a commonplace now to acknowledge the difficulties involved in drawing a boundary around the inner city . |
| 8 | Johnny Marr set about moulding a band around the songwriting . |
| 9 | Plotting points is done by moving a cursor around the screen with the mouse . |
| 10 | Freehand designing or editing of an existing design is done by moving a cursor around the grid with either the arrow keys or a mouse . |
| 11 | ‘ It is a tremendous relief for me to be kicking a ball around the old place again . |
| 12 | Anyone expecting a baby around the end of April and going to the Sorrento who would like to share the hire of a specialised birthing tank to use in labour ? |
| 13 | I did n't see anything except a man tying a rope around the large upper branch of a tree . |
| 14 | We 'd enjoy having a boy around the house again , eh , Wix ? ’ |
| 15 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 16 | In a while we 'll be taking a look around the show , and finding out about a traditional breed of sheep and a very small breed of cattle . |
| 17 | We 'll be taking a look around the scene here in a few moments , but first let's see how the people and town of Cheltenham prepares for the biggest invasion of the year . |
| 18 | However , it is one thing to scan a computer screen in the catering office : it 's quite another to do stocktaking — typically this involves carrying a notebook around the various larders and coldrooms . |
| 19 | The initial pouring had partly cooled before another crucible was added , leaving a crack around the base . |
| 20 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 21 | The Independent of Dec. 2 described the agreement as effectively " throwing a ring-fence around the Community " which would " condemn " eastern Europe to bear the greater burden for taking in victims of the war in former Yugoslavia . |
| 22 | As we saw earlier , ITN coverage showed an incident in which one miner took a flying kick at a policeman who was beating a fellow-picket around the head . |
| 23 | It is like the mind spinning a cocoon around the I and Thou . |