Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] [noun pl] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of spending $7 million on back-up equipment to catch the particles that its existing scrubbing plant could not cope with , it spent $1.7 million by periodically spraying its outdoor piles of iron ore and coal , by paving or periodically wetting down the company roads , by planting trees and grass to trap wind-blown particulates , and arranging shuttle buses so that employees reduced the use of their own vehicles around the site . |
| 2 | We could shop at one of their 19 superstores around the country and save a fortune . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that , given the collapse of the Soviet Union and the distribution of its nuclear weapons around the country , it is extremely important for Britain to maintain its nuclear deterrent and to be ready for any eventuality ? |
| 4 | She gave him a basilisk gaze and he tried to dispose of his long legs around the legs of the Sheraton chair . |
| 5 | Clad in a white boiler suit , Barry takes his keyboard off the stand , bangs it gently ( ! ) on the floor , then puts it back before one of his customary jives around the stage , whistle in mouth . |
| 6 | Clad in a white boiler suit , Barry takes his keyboard off the stand , bangs it gently ( ! ) on the floor , then puts it back before one of his customary jives around the stage , whistle in mouth . |
| 7 | He writes brilliantly of the great circumnavigation of Magellan , of his own voyages around the Horn , through the Panama Canal or up the peak in Darien where Balboa ( not Keats 's stout Cortez ) first spied the Pacific . |
| 8 | Paula Kahn , chairman and chief executive of Longman Group , commented that it had been a good year for Longman ‘ despite the impact of the recession in some of our key markets around the world , particularly our ELT markets in Europe ’ . |