Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] around [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eventually tracking down some bottles of alcohol in the kitchen , she popped her head back around the door to ask Ross what he wanted . |
| 32 | ‘ We do n't have our name anywhere around the pitch , ’ says Mr Marshall . |
| 33 | This can be a particular problem if you run the cable sharply around a corner — you should always use gentle radius bends . |
| 34 | The shocked people of Warrington paid their respects , and stood , some weeping , in silent tribute as the cortege dove slowly around the town , a tiny coffin in front . |
| 35 | Manufacturers ran up their mills , factories and works on the edge of existing towns , and their workers were housed in streets of terrace-houses built rapidly on the vacant ground all around the factory . |
| 36 | ‘ There 's a practice area just around the corner and the starter will call you to the tee five minutes before you are due to tee off , ’ he said . |
| 37 | ( She compromises then by further guard duties on the area directly around the nesting site — keeping far enough away to avoid the male ) . |
| 38 | She got her tongue triumphantly around the syllables . |
| 39 | However I notice that Wyre Borough Council workmen are now fencing off the area immediately around the swings etc . |
| 40 | I understand the fenced area immediately around the building is very untidy and full of nettles . |
| 41 | Tut-tutting all around the house . |
| 42 | Royalty all around the county . |
| 43 | ‘ I have it in mind to visit a small lake just around the bend . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ Tell me Barney , ’ she said quietly , ‘ are those boys I used to play with as a kid still around the locality ? |
| 45 | Rotate the cutter once around the pipe and tighten the wheel a little more . |
| 46 | Paramount closed down its London office in 1968 , declaring that ‘ we now feel that by coordinating and controlling our production activities in Hollywood we can effectively control a programme that will continue to draw from a talent pool all around the world . ’ |
| 47 | It was a great advertisement for Test cricket , with the instant variety of the World Cup just around the corner . |
| 48 | When wider bandwidth networking became available , the ability to move graphical information quickly around a network brought the cental multi user processor concept into the wimps era , and this has required clearly defined standards for the Graphical User Interface ( GUI ) . |
| 49 | Fran jumped to her feet and swept a hand angrily around the office . |
| 50 | Whenever I put food out around a sett prior to an evening watch , I can usually hear a badger munching a peanut or two for some time before the first animal comes into view . |
| 51 | Alex Bannen swung the beam of his torch wildly around the Operations Room . |
| 52 | ‘ It makes me a lot faster around the court , ’ says the 20-year-old who was unseeded when he reached the semi-final of The Championships two years ago . |
| 53 | It could be in orbit either around the sun or around the center of the galaxy . |
| 54 | I think that is both a substantial amount of peer pressure and also the clearest possible indication that there is an expectation right around the world that people will put the communal benefit of a GATT agreement , before purely domestic interests . |
| 55 | They heard water cascading from broken gutters outside and the insistent drip , drip , drip where it had found its way in around a window . |
| 56 | Can you remember how we talked about the Romans having a very strong army and how they captured land around Rome around it 's lake and before long they 'd captured land all around the Mediterranean Sea and they formed that into what we call the Roman Empire . |
| 57 | There was a buzz of excitement all around the room , but at the same time everyone had the same nervous look about their face . |
| 58 | This unit is separated from the fields of ridge and furrow all around the village by a break of slope or change of level of I metre ( 39 in ) or more in height . |
| 59 | ‘ Thank you , I enjoyed being a part of that , ’ she said gravely , as the procession wended its way off around the village before finally returning to the church . |
| 60 | First , however , she decided to edge her way tactfully around the issue , and so began , ‘ You would n't happen to know if Miss Milada Pankracova has returned fr — ’ |