Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] and [verb] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gathering my skirt and veils around me , I feel my way up five steps and stand ready , back to the audience , on the 2ft-square platform . |
| 2 | Having performed my duty and wandered around the coronation hall of the fourteenth century Rathaus with its dreadful nineteenth-century frescoes on the life of Charlemagne , and gazed at Charlemagne 's marble throne in the Cathedral , it was time to sit in the sun for a while and eat an ice-cream . |
| 3 | She sat back in her seat and glanced around her . |
| 4 | Dorothea wiped her eyes and blew her nose and looked around her , at the overcoated figures , huddled and sneezing about the table-tennis table under the Vestry lights . |
| 5 | She tapped the ash off her cigarette and looked around the restaurant . |
| 6 | Some were later exploited by Copernicus in his attempt to establish that the earth both turns on its axis and revolves around the sun . |
| 7 | It was also the same day and night and throughout the year , even though the earth was rotating on its axis and orbiting around the sun . |
| 8 | Eve sat on her bed and looked around the room . |
| 9 | Except that on this day , while it hunted for flies , one frog lost its way and crawled around the side of one of the outermost petals , or possibly leaves , and saw something it had never seen before . |
| 10 | He sat back in his pew and looked around the church which the indefatigable ladies of the WI had transformed with flowers and holly sprays . |
| 11 | Death held the receiver against his chest and leaned around the kitchen door . |
| 12 | He turned his head and looked around the café . |
| 13 | The young man scratched his head and looked around the cabin . |
| 14 | Joe got out of his chair and walked around the desk . |
| 15 | David got up from his chair and prowled around the room . |
| 16 | He shook himself free from his reverie and looked around the chamber . |