Example sentences of "circle around " in BNC.
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| 1 | While we watched , Annabel wormed her way into the circle around Kezia with a plate of smoked salmon sandwiches . |
| 2 | Friendship networks so old and intimate that the differences and difficulties could collapse into wild mirth at any instant , or could flare into fights which , however vicious at the time , would not actually change anything nor prevent her and all her friends coming together again soon after , at identical but different pine kitchen tables , scattered in a loose lop-sided circle around central London . |
| 3 | On a square or round table they can be arranged in a circle around a group of tall candles or a bowl of fruit . |
| 4 | THE Tory MP Mr David Tredinnick ( Bosworth ) provoked fury from the Liberal Democrats during the Queen 's speech debate when he accused them of ‘ doughnutting ’ — sitting in a tight circle around their spokesman in order to give the impression on television that the Commons was full . |
| 5 | Kvallposten , an evening newspaper in Malmo , reported that a diary belonging to Mr Talb which was seized during police searches shows December 21 1988 — the day on which PanAm 103 blew up — with a circle around it . |
| 6 | I decided to take the bus to Strandhill , on Sligo Bay , and follow the road in a circle around Queen Maeve 's hill of Knocknarea . |
| 7 | She came full circle around the house , and opened a door to find herself looking up again at the dangling corpse statue . |
| 8 | The threshing floors lay bare , pale , trodden and packed down in a circle around the post where the oxen had circled . |
| 9 | In this situation you have to forget the textbook method of standing still and pivoting on one foot while the horse trots a beautiful circle around you : Skipper walked and later trotted a big circle and I walked a smaller one . |
| 10 | Stories , and the whole collection , circle around the same events , reapproaching and repeating them until we see them whole and she is healed of them : the ‘ trying times ’ of Pakistan 's civil war , the deaths of her mother and best-loved sister . |
| 11 | A bowler who strays wide of the off or leg stumps gives the batsman ‘ width ’ and enables him to glance , cut , and deflect , opening up scoring opportunities in a 360 degree circle around the bat . |
| 12 | Kalchu , Chola and the children were eating , sitting in a circle around the empty hearth — a pit in the earth surrounded by stones . |
| 13 | The net can be positioned either as a box or in an approximate circle around the warren site . |
| 14 | Cut away a neat edged circle around the base of trees and where the shrubs overhang the lawn . |
| 15 | I swung in a wide circle around the machine climbing slightly to loose speed and came in at him again from dead ahead and slightly above . |
| 16 | She danced a tight circle around me . |
| 17 | With 250 on the clock I heave the how-heavy stick to the right and when we have twenty degrees of bank I brace , pull and reverse the roll to watch our nose carve a lazy anti-clockwise circle around the sapphire sky . |
| 18 | A shaped metal guard flips down to form a complete protective circle around the cord , useful around trees |
| 19 | Making a circle around myself by punching anyone near me |
| 20 | Start by measuring in a rough circle around the dog 's throat and up over the ears , and then add a further 5 cm ( 2 in ) to this figure . |
| 21 | His chamber is decorated almost wholly in black and midnight blue , and an 8-yard diameter circle around the Oracle 's throne is covered in thick , slimy strands which look like a gooey spider 's web . |
| 22 | The two men had become increasingly resentful of the circle around the king , and their rebellion was specifically directed against the ‘ covetous rule and guiding ’ of this group , identified in the rebels ' manifesto as the family of queen Elizabeth Woodville , the earls of Devon and Pembroke , John lord Audley and Sir John Fogge . |
| 23 | He also seems to have developed connections with the circle around the prince . |
| 24 | There are other indications that Mancini 's account , for all its overt criticism of the duke , may be based on a version of events originating in the circle around Gloucester . |
| 25 | Before reaching London , Gloucester apparently wrote to the council and to the city 's mayor , explaining that he had taken possession of the prince because the circle around the boy had been inimical to the safety of king and kingdom . |
| 26 | But it is possible to draw so tight a circle around an enlightened few that the picture becomes distorted in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | For a high-tea or supper meal spread smoked haddock paste on fingers of hot toast and arrange them in a circle around a dish of scrambled eggs . |
| 28 | In front of the building is a row of white-painted stones and some cactus-like sisal plants forming a circle around a patch of grass . |
| 29 | He denied the Aristotelian claim that all motion requires a cause and in its place proposed a circular law of inertia , according to which a moving object subject to no forces will move indefinitely in a circle around the earth at uniform speed . |
| 30 | It was within this crisis of the broader social formation that the particular cultural formation of the circle around Godwin became significant . |