Example sentences of "around [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the commentator began to analyse the Yankees ' seasonal batting averages Graham looked around slowly at the tranquillity of his surroundings . |
| 2 | We turn the car around slowly on the car park 's broken sea shell covering . |
| 3 | Men in forage caps were milling around below in the courtyard , their voices and footsteps resounding throughout the building . |
| 4 | Spurs then started knocking the ball around nicely from the back and succeeded in creating quite a few gaps . |
| 5 | Then people rolling around all over the place . |
| 6 | Not like now with all these casualties walking around all over the place , getting into fights . ’ |
| 7 | Funny that the kids are so quiet , usually after a day cooped up in there they 're jumping around all over the place . |
| 8 | As I went upstairs I thought how much I hated being shoved around all over the place . |
| 9 | He applied for a post in the service of the archduke : but Ferdinand was advised by his mother not to burden himself with such ‘ useless creatures who travel around all over the place , like beggars ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ However , ’ Don Mini continued , still addressing Little Billy , ‘ you can not go flying around all over the place on Swan 's back in full daylight . |
| 11 | But her pulses were jumping around all over the place . |
| 12 | But it 's not invisible unless you move the cell pointer around all over the place looking in the top left hand corner . |
| 13 | While he , Owen , was tearing around all over the place like a bloody lunatic ! |
| 14 | Very bumpy , with small wheels you get thrown around all over the place |
| 15 | As long as the controls are there to make sure they 're not wandering around all over the place which one hears about Group 4 and their reputation for letting people go which has become a bit of a joke . |
| 16 | When the bell was sounded , people were running around all over the place , checking gates and doors . |
| 17 | . There 's quite a service buses plus they 've got mini buses running around all over the shop as well so . |
| 18 | The thirty pupils or more making up the group move around together in the school during the school breaks . |
| 19 | Christopher Benjamin bumbles around agreeably as the virtuoso ; Linda Marlowe puts on a powerful Vampirella act as his sex-hungry wife . |
| 20 | Her bare flesh came close enough to his face for him to inhale its pungent female odour and he peered around desperately into the gloom for some sign of his French companion . |
| 21 | He could have kicked around forever in the States , and if he had never come here he might have never gotten anywhere . |
| 22 | Robyn whipped the sauce around viciously in the pan and was frantically trying to think up some caustic reply , when Luke interjected smoothly , ‘ Robyn 's not an acquaintance , Melissa . ’ |
| 23 | Shoulds and oughts end in far too many impotent and guilty middle-class men writhing around hopelessly in the beds of friends and strangers . |
| 24 | Yes it 's erm made up of a small proportion of the countries in the General , General Assembly , about five countries and seats on it erm basically the allies from the second world war erm and the other seats are changed around periodically between the nation , other nations . |
| 25 | The continents just drift around passively on the backs of the mantle convection cells , like great rafts , with the ‘ leading ’ edges of the rafts being dragged down and thickened where they encounter descending oceanic crust . |
| 26 | The light breeze wont shift the cloud , which 'll hang around well into the evening . |
| 27 | West Ham look a good outfit , they pass the ball around well in the midfield but are crap when they get it in the box . |
| 28 | ‘ Oscar knows the countryside around here like the back of his paw . ’ |
| 29 | Push the hips around fully into the kick , delivered with a footsword . |
| 30 | They were there at last , Lucy was bundled as gently as speed would allow on to a trolley and whisked off through swing doors , and Virginia stared , hollow-eyed , at Guy as they waited around silently in the reception area . |