Example sentences of "and [verb] the [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paisley about faced and led the parade around the block so that it now came upon Fisherwick Place from the west . |
| 2 | She gestured Melanie over to her and draped the material around her shoulders . |
| 3 | The two aims of this key part of the child protection process are to minimise children 's trauma and help recovery , and to tighten the net around abusers . |
| 4 | For good measure , the playwright Robert Young has added some erotic Seventies disco dancing ( very now ) , Skin Two-type costumes by Kim West , and built the plot around the ‘ twin aphrodisiacs of money and erotic dance ’ . |
| 5 | They soon left the estate , crossed the highway , and entered the park around Maran Hill . |
| 6 | The woman sniffed back her tears , and drew the shawl around her body , which was heavy and useful like a sack of potatoes . |
| 7 | Hurriedly she wriggled out of her bra and drew the bodice around her full breasts just in time . |
| 8 | Alight at any of our picturesque stations and explore the countryside around them . |
| 9 | My son found it almost impossible to leave the edgewoods and explore the farmland around Ryhope … ’ |
| 10 | However , cold tea , and emptying the teapot around the plants has a tremendous effect ; my camellia has glossy new leaves and two new flowers , and a tiny pieris is also pushing its red bracts through . |
| 11 | Smooth and fit the icing around the corners before smoothing down the sides . |
| 12 | Colour the remaining royal icing green ( keeping a little back for the flowers if liked ) and cover the drum around the postbox , peaking with a palette knife for a grass effect . |
| 13 | LIKE the boy on the burning deck , Chancellor Norman Lamont stood on the Treasury steps yesterday and ignored the carnage around him . |
| 14 | Roll out all the remaining blue fondant to a 25cm ( 10inch ) circle and use to cover the cake , easing to fit and smoothing the icing around the sides of the cake with hands dusted with icing sugar or cornflour . |
| 15 | Teachers of history will be helped in this process by children 's natural curiosity and their need to explore and understand the world around them . |
| 16 | Some , ‘ … wiser than the rest , lay their heads together and resolved in council to be before-hand ’ and went with picks and shovels and opened the land around the monument to a depth of six feet . |
| 17 | It is unique in being able to incorporate MacPaint images and run the text around them , regardless of their shape . |
| 18 | He settled down again to work ( ‘ lessons and literature ’ ) , with some hours spent at Wimbledon with Arthur Hardy ‘ in the warmth and strange visible light of the late afternoon ’ , and enjoyed the kindness around Which I never felt so much as of late , when it looked as if I was soon to cast it away with such apparent rudeness ’ . |
| 19 | For the more I yelled , the lower I made myself and the greater the sense of mastery and control the malais around me could enjoy . |
| 20 | Click the right mouse button on the boxed printer icon and draw the box around the whole design screen using the right mouse button . |
| 21 | Cover the entire drum with paper or cloth , and wrap the ribbon around the drum , securing with glue or royal icing . |
| 22 | 2 Bring your fingers in and wrap the thumb around the outside of the locked fingers , covering the index and second fingers . |
| 23 | We should help people to live as normal a life as possible and organise the day around what they want to do . |
| 24 | They wo n't be dug up if you allow them to become established before you add the fish and scatter the gravel around them with pebbles or small stones . |
| 25 | With about 10 minutes of the match to go Forrester collected the ball on the right edge of the penalty area after agood run from Kelly , turned and curled the ball around the goalie and into the opposite top corner of the net — a truely brilliant goal . |
| 26 | She turned on her side and pulled the blanket around her neck . |
| 27 | You expect her to crouch and try to put the robe on before she 's fully out of the water , or to turn her back to you , but instead there 's something like a sneer on her face as she stands up facing you and wraps the robe around herself with a kind of disdain . |
| 28 | H. For centuries , groups of farmers have lived together in villages and worked the land around each village to a distance of about 1.5–2.0 km . |
| 29 | Several seconds passed before I recognised the features of the PLO officer who was defending the Palestinian camp and shelling the area around Ben Ami . |
| 30 | She lay in a huge , curtained bed and felt the ice around her heart begin to melt , her mind begin to function again . |