Example sentences of "[verb] around in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He swam around in the cold plunge for five minutes to close his pores , then towelled himself vigorously before jumping on the scales in the rest room . |
| 2 | ’ For five minutes the two engineers moved around in the steam and smoke , and looked at the big engines . |
| 3 | Culley moved around in the small space close to the window . |
| 4 | Wear loose fitting clothing to protect your shoulders , arms and legs when you 're walking around in the sun . |
| 5 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 6 | They had rolled around in the narrow berth on the unanchored sheet , slipping on the shiny much-worn cheap leatherette surface of the bunk , lurching in and out of one another in a determined kind of way , the only passengers on the boat not to be paralysed with seasickness . |
| 7 | We just used to banter , have the odd drink together , fool around in the snow . |
| 8 | Tonight it 's the story of his uncle and as he stands around in the hall , he talks about his Uncle Rocco who was stationed in Ipswich . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the kite that Lord Hanson has flown is bobbing around in the political and financial winds . |
| 10 | These materials are highly complicated and important fluids which play a great part in the direction of the ways in which our bodies and minds function ; they are known as hormones , and are carried around in the bloodstream exercising effect on each other and on a variety of bodily processes . |
| 11 | Tom put the blacks up in the front room , crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps . |
| 12 | We now understand the day before another young boy af about nine saw a amn dressed exactly the same some distance away in the Sparcells estate so we can only assume that this man is lurking around in the area . |
| 13 | Rolling bream are not frightened bream , nor do they hang around in the swim if they 've been spooked by an escaping fish . |
| 14 | I mean , either you 've got ta hang around in the morning , or he 's got ta hang around at night . |
| 15 | He opened the little back gate and peered around in the dark for the shelter . |
| 16 | They simply wandered around in the dark , placing their bombs on the parked aircraft until they ran out of them . |
| 17 | So I was laid out in the back of the van on the bed and he 's driving down this field to put the tent , because it had little er bits you know where it 's marked out for you to camp , and I 'm driving around in the back saying , yes you 've , you 've just missed the fence there and you know . |
| 18 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |
| 19 | Here it 's even more difficult as Black lurches around in the kind of jacket and jeans ensemble sported TV by dapper TV supa-Scot Rab C Nesbit . |
| 20 | Here it 's even more difficult as Black lurches around in the kind of jacket and jeans ensemble sported TV by dapper TV supa-Scot Rab C Nesbit . |
| 21 | ‘ And now it is gone , all gone … the communists have thrown in the sponge and left us bouncing around in the ring looking for an opponent . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , that 's a good start ! ’ she thought , looking around in the hope that someone had witnessed so successful a landing , but of course they had n't . |
| 23 | He stood , arms akimbo , looking around in the musty gloom . |
| 24 | The young men mill around in the wasteground , their fury and their hormones surging . |
| 25 | they , they do n't know just walk around in the warehouse , they are |
| 26 | Others were already wriggling around in the Alice 's undercarriage , zeroing in on the inlets . |
| 27 | Things begin to crack ; sometimes the cracks become gaps and then we can open them up to make spaces full of creative possibility , but sometimes the cracks become fissures and everything collapses and we have to scratch around in the rubble looking for bits of junk that we can cobble together into something ripe with meaning . |
| 28 | He played with a rubber washer that came drifting by , trying to make it spin around in the air in front of his nose . |
| 29 | How the Scottish paragliders imagined this sport would adapt to the arctic , savage , gale-torn mountains of home is anybody 's guess , but they appear to be quite happy flapping around in the rain before plummeting out of the sky like Icarus and skidding to an inelegant halt face first in small lochans . |
| 30 | Well yes , but I mean it 's she seems to do the opposite thing to Charlotte , cos she used to sleep in the morning and fidget around in the afternoons and this one fidgets all morning and then sleeps in the afternoon . |