Example sentences of "[verb] around [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll have to excuse it being a bit cold cos we 're walking around with all windows |
| 2 | Because you 're always walking around with that bloody notebook writing everything down , and you 're not getting anywhere near the truth … |
| 3 | Why would that be , why would you be arrested for walking around with this ? |
| 4 | Within minutes of being given the treatment his walking was much improved , and the following day he was walking around without any sticks and was also able to climb up and down stairs unaided — a thing he had been unable to do for at least two years . |
| 5 | There were n't that many rehearsal places around at that time which we could afford . |
| 6 | Successively a Rhodes scholar , Foreign Office mandarin , Oxford don , politician , TV current affairs reporter and politician again , he is unencumbered by the traditionalist baggage inevitably carried around by those who grew up where the writ of the Labour establishment still runs largely unchallenged . |
| 7 | A bus to Exeter and then E , oh I 'm not hassling around with that ! |
| 8 | What pressures his wife brought to bear on him to come around to this decision I am not sure . |
| 9 | When it is finished , I want you to come around behind that curtain and up onto the stage . |
| 10 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 11 | He was still naked and seemed so relaxed in that state that she wondered if he often wandered around like that . |
| 12 | He 's still driving around in that one now . |
| 13 | Therefore I would say a poem such as " I wandered lonely as a cloud " is not a good subject for one picture — because the poet can jump around over such a vast expanse and bring image after image to mind : |
| 14 | Looking around at all the there are a whole lot of people who have left the same even border all the way round instead of having an even border top and sides and leaving a bigger border at the bottom . |
| 15 | he wheedled , looking around for any likely victims . |
| 16 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
| 17 | Throughout the entire 50 minutes of grilling on low heat , Judd Lander sits nervously , looking around for more people to ask questions . |
| 18 | He is refreshingly determined not to be pushed around by these men any more than he is by the whites . |
| 19 | Just walk around with that for an hour or so . |
| 20 | walk around with that bag all the time do you ? |
| 21 | walk around like that ooh . |
| 22 | And even if you lose two and a half stone , you 're still not gon na look like , you know , some skinny model because you 're still gon na be about six foot wide with your hips and your shoulders , but I mean , you 're just gon na have gangly longer legs and walk around like this . |
| 23 | I played around with these harsh gasps for a while , seeing Miller as a big pink fish stranded on a cobble-stoned beach , letting broken scraps of dialogue decorate the page . |
| 24 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 25 | The sun , having messed around with all the colours that Keats and Shelly were so big on , decided at last to give the rosy-fingered routine a bit of a miss and go for the full Colditz searchlight . |
| 26 | to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah |
| 27 | ‘ As long as he 's not fixing for another of his boys to play around with this alternative route through the mountains , ’ I said . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been racing around for most of the day . |
| 29 | ‘ I see enough of you and Gesner racing around in that appalling car of his without watching you prancing together on a stage . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah , give me those scissors , you 're not rushing around with those . |