Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun sg] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked around the 2500 miles of Irish coast in record time before returning to England in March to begin his clockwise trek around the coast . |
| 2 | From what I could see of him — mostly his spectacles and his left arm around the door jamb — he appeared to be wearing a red silk kimono . |
| 3 | When leaving on his epic journey around the world , Phileas Fogg encountered a begging woman with her child at Charing Cross Station and gave her the proceeds of his recent success at whist . |
| 4 | The young pilot had the grey filly nicely placed to make his winning move around the two furlong mark and when the question was asked the English-trained miler was the one with all the answers . |
| 5 | He ran his calloused finger around the rim of his glass . |
| 6 | Whereas his state visits to Washington , London or Bonn had given Ceauşescu enormous status even within Romania , his tireless travelling around the Third World helped to undermine respect for him at home . |
| 7 | Unlike his father , a pugnacious Laudian , Swan had Puritan leanings , and these may explain his temporary displacement around the Restoration . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |