Example sentences of "around [pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is n't much loving in any of your kindnesses , Jane , ’ the middle-aged hero of John Osborne 's Inadmissible Evidence ( 1965 ) complains to his daughter in a long , unanswered diatribe against the younger generation — a new race of adolescents capable , for the first time , of subduing the earth around them and thinking nothing of it : ‘ not much kindness , not even cruelty , really , in any of you . ’ |
| 2 | It was alleged that he touched the boys ' genitals , put his arm around them and kissed them on the lips . |
| 3 | He pulled me to my feet , and flung his arms around me and squeezed me as if he wanted to gather me right into himself , never let me go , and we stayed like that for a long time , not speaking , rocking to and fro . |
| 4 | At first it had been merely a matter of borrowing her mother 's scarves and veils , draping these around herself or twisting them into turbans and sashes . |
| 5 | Even as he hacked his way free more tentacles looped around him and dragged him into the filth . |
| 6 | Christina flung her arms around him and kissed him on the cheek . |
| 7 | And Kate 's mother had put her arm around him and pulled him towards her . |
| 8 | With a tenderness that surprised her the Frenchman put his arms around her and lifted her onto the cot beside him . |
| 9 | He put his arm around her and led her into the room , and Maggie got up to go . |
| 10 | He also noticed a reduction in Miss T. 's awareness of what was going on around her and mentioned it to the nursing staff who told him that it was the effect of the drugs . |
| 11 | He put his arm around her and drew her towards him . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the film deploys sounds and images with intense effect as it explores the inner experience of a little girl closed off from the world , for whom her family is a cage tightened around her and preventing her from communicating with the world . |
| 13 | Donna did n't manage to get her finger around the trigger but she did pull the weapon clear , closing her hand around it and using it as a club . |
| 14 | Overthrow made from ticking , 130cm wide , £13.50/m , wire basket with candleholders , £21 ; all from The Conran Shop ; we painted the basket red , twined ivy around it and lined it with moss , before filling with fruit . |
| 15 | For clearly one of the principal characteristics of sculpture in the round is that the spectator is able , and is indeed often encouraged or compelled , to walk around it and study it from all angles . |
| 16 | He then wrapped a piece of red flannel around it and placed it under his arm . |