Example sentences of "[noun sg] around the base [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A woman came out of her house and apparently poured a pot of tea around the base of a bush .
2 An unpruned bush may suffer from wind rock over winter , opening up a funnel around the base of the stem which could fill with water and freeze .
3 He raised his arm to see its motion in the flesh of his thumb , and clamped his other hand around the base of the digit in the hope of stopping its further advance , gasping as though doused with ice-water. the pain was out of all proportion to the mite 's size , but he held both thumb and sobs hard , determined not to lose all dignity in front of his executioners .
4 Secure the blue ribbon around the base of the carousel .
5 3 Wrap florists ' wire around the base of the pine-cones to create individual stems .
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