Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know my way around Beirut . ’ |
| 2 | My husband died 11 years ago and I built my world around Louis . |
| 3 | I soon found my way around both the broad boulevards and reeking , rat-infested alleyways . |
| 4 | Quickly I fastened my veil around my face . |
| 5 | Lissa drew her robe around herself in a protective gesture , her mind frozen over like a bleak winter landscape . |
| 6 | She could get it all in her mouth and slip her tongue around it , and it did n't prod into the back of her throat , half choking her . |
| 7 | An exciting implication , by analogy with certain tumour cells that express Lewis-X and metastasize to the lungs and liver ( the two major systemic organs through which schistosomes migrate ) , is that this sugar provides a means for the parasite to find its way around the host . |
| 8 | He speaks of one of the ‘ largest and compleatest works in the kingdom for making iron and steel wire ’ , much of which found its way around the county in the form of ‘ cards ’ for the woollen industry . |
| 9 | Using genuine folk instruments such as armadillo charangos , pan pipes and caja and playing them splendidly , the group built their programme around the Bolivian seasons and the ritual divisions of the year . |
| 10 | She lugged her case up the wrong stairway , came out facing the open lough , had to find her way around the superstructure . |
| 11 | In 1600 ocean voyages were a rarity in England , but by 1700 ordinary English ships were able to find their way around the Atlantic and Indian oceans with little difficulty , and the money that Charles spent on Greenwich was among the most useful items of government expenditure of his age . |
| 12 | The fact is that we still have a great deal to learn about the skills that animals use to find their way around their own home ranges and to travel the globe . |
| 13 | This use of diagrams enables students both to find their way around a text without losing themselves in the irrelevant detail of intensive reading , and also to identify parts without having to name them . |
| 14 | Indeed the ability of the newcomers to find their way around the local political system has often prompted the improvement of other rural amenities , albeit on a highly selective basis . |
| 15 | help them to find their way around school buildings . |
| 16 | It is expected that the results of the research will have important implications for teaching visually impaired children how to find their way around the world and will be a beneficial contribution to contemporary mobility training . |
| 17 | What is needed is an adequate route map to enable everyone to find their way around the system ( Bergen , 1975 ) . |
| 18 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 19 | El Capitan had a baton in his hand now and was winding its strap around his wrist . |
| 20 | Army personnel did not know their way around London and would need police escorts . |
| 21 | Besides , I 'd be too shy to ask the way from who had such an obvious contempt for children who still did n't know their way around the school . |
| 22 | They often found their way around the Gulf , worked out of recognition , into coffee pots , jewel boxes and jewellery . |
| 23 | Furthermore , Coutts themselves were undergoing a change in policy , consolidating their business around the wealthy personal customer and shedding some of their ‘ high-risk ’ business accounts . |
| 24 | The Old Town harbours a sundry collection of churches , mansions , synagogues , palaces and mosques , winding their way around the narrow lanes and hidden nooks , beckoning the adventurer into the shadows . |
| 25 | Because there was no sign that Marian and Allen had regained the highway ahead of them the verderers agreed that there were three possibilities : the first , that the children would lie hidden for some time in dense woodland until it was safe for them to return to the ride ; the second , that they would try to work their way around the Swamp to the north but that since they would be away from paths this would be difficult and slow ; and the third , that they might try to reach the outlaws ' camp by passing the Swamp to the south . |
| 26 | He held it up triumphantly as though it were a trophy then knelt beside the nearest keg and traced his finger around the seal of the small bung . |
| 27 | If the adventurers can trick him into believing that , for example , his Master is in danger and they are here to help , then Gerd will be very eager to assist them , and he does know his way around the dungeons rather well . |
| 28 | By the time that man gets to Riga he will know his way around the town and every detail of his life from the day his father gave him a light-brown teddy-bear , to the movie show he watched last night . |
| 29 | He fell on his knees and grasped his monarch around his legs . |
| 30 | Guy dismounted and lifted Isabel out of the saddle , keeping his arm around her . |