Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one , not even lovers , are truly psychic , and everyone flounders around each other , misunderstanding , misinterpreting , sending out confusing signals . |
| 2 | I did n't much care ; it was only the clumsiness of my fingers around the dip-in pen which was at fault , and nothing more intimate . |
| 3 | Quickly I fastened my veil around my face . |
| 4 | That evening I decided to begin my search around the shower area . |
| 5 | I tried to get my mind around something intangible . |
| 6 | I have a suspicion that my clothes-sense around the side roads of Frenchay and Stapleton shocks a few of my friends . |
| 7 | I remember the war and my travels around the world . |
| 8 | ‘ I think my standing around this town is pretty average , Gil . |
| 9 | Hence my hanging around what one assistant haughtily dismissed as the ‘ antique section ’ of hi-fi stores . |
| 10 | Every day , I always used to stick my head around the office door and say , ‘ Anything for me today ? ’ — and one day they said , ‘ Well , we 're looking for dancers for the BBC 's production of Pistol Shot ( which was a play by Chekhov ) — maybe you 'd like to do it and choreograph it and use some of your students ? ’ |
| 11 | I made my way through the crowds to Farr 's in Brown Street , managed to get right up to the entrance and poke my head around the door to see what was going on . |
| 12 | I could n't quite get my head around the fact that this vast underground world existed , going on and on underground with chambers , tunnels , streams and pools , all underneath hills , roads and houses . |
| 13 | But I remember Puzznic very fondly as a game that I could actually get my head around ( it 's very flexible you know ) ; even a thicko like me can understand the concept of joining corresponding icons together . |
| 14 | ‘ I just ca n't get my head around this idea of defining oneself by one 's genitals . |
| 15 | In my blunderings around Enniskillen , I may have inadvertently done some harm , as foreigners do in Communist lands by innocently befriending natives who are then shadowed by the secret police and later imprisoned or shot . |
| 16 | At least one day a week I like ( who said ‘ Liar ’ ) to devote to my chores around the house and garden . |
| 17 | He 's so good that I 've ended up basing all my choreography around him . ’ |
| 18 | I could n't get my tongue around the consonants ; I lisped . |
| 19 | ‘ For the past few years I have built my life around rugby and I am happy to go on doing that until I ca n't go any further in the game ’ , he said . |
| 20 | ‘ If I 'm going to have to organise my life around flying visits from you , I 'll need to have some idea . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I sometimes put my arms around you because I need to feel your closeness . |
| 22 | His full trunk , before any branch is reached is now massive , and such is his configuration that when I put my arms around him — which I do regularly — only one particular bough is hugged with ease . |
| 23 | I now put my arms around that bough and pressed the wood to my chest . |
| 24 | When I 'd finished and it was just the two of us left I put my arms around him and kissed his face . |
| 25 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 26 | ‘ I just put my arms around her and squeezed her so tight I thought I 'd break her ribs , ’ said Rosemary Lodge , whose 18-year-old daughter Suzanne died when a car driven by Ann-Marie Coombes crashed . |
| 27 | Displaying his sense of humour , McKenzie quipped : ‘ I think I 've had my arms around Phil more often than I 've had them around my fiancee ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I wish he did have cause to be jealous of me , ’ I said , and took the opportunity to draw her towards me and fold my arms around her . |
| 29 | I wrapped my arms around her from the back . |
| 30 | I put my arms around her and hugged her , but I did n't kiss her again because I thought I might cry . |