Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peasants had shown themselves fully capable of organizing resistance around their traditional village institutions , and their determination to take over the nobility 's land was their own . |
| 2 | He was soon overpowered with either sleep or cold , when his faithful defendant , who had closely attended to every step , scratched away the snow so as to throw up a sort of protecting wall around his helpless master ; then mounting upon the exposed body , rolled himself round and lay upon his master 's bosom , for which his shaggy coat proved a most seasonable covering and eventual protection during the dreadful severity of the night , the snow falling all the time . |
| 3 | In the same way that the human body , for instance , is an integrated whole whose individual parts serve particular ‘ needs ’ of the system ( for example , the heart performs the function of pumping blood around the body , the bowel functions to collect and evacuate solid-waste products , and so on ) , so society comprises a system of interdependent institutions each with a contribution to make to the overall stability and continuity of the whole . |
| 4 | Shariff Nassir , KANU 's Mombasa branch chairman , said that Kenya was a haven on the African continent , and that the USA had " formed the habit of creating trouble around the world " . |
| 5 | to say the through traffic element erm erm did n't did n't function as well in terms of distributing traffic around the network which wanted to access . |
| 6 | You still got ta move stuff around ai n't you ? |
| 7 | Lord Caithness said the case was being adequately dealt with by the Department of Transport marine accident investigation and Lord Donaldson 's inquiry into shipping safety around Britain . |
| 8 | Police , local authorities , schools and crime prevention teams are all involved in tackling crime around the workplace , and business should play a part in this effort . |
| 9 | It goes west along the river Humber before passing north around the western edge of the Yorkshire Wolds . |
| 10 | However , the proportions in which elements are produced in the big bang depend on the number of types of neutrino ( the neutrinos play a role in moving energy around the fireball ) . |
| 11 | This , I trust , has no connection with the fecal matter we are used to seeing hanging around the back end of a sheep , but instead refers to the fact they spend most of their weekends dangling from a rope . |
| 12 | But I was not prepared for the raking over of academic arguments on defining poverty around when John Moore , then Secretary of State for Social Services , said poverty no longer existed . |
| 13 | For here was a film that was quite obviously intent on initiating debate around important contemporary issues such as parliamentary democracy , the Labour Party , the role of the state , the role of the press , and so on . |
| 14 | I saw my marriage as a kind of pointless secular martyrdom , but I baulked at putting brushwood around my own pyre . |
| 15 | ‘ Having identified where the focused technology effort is needed we are definitely getting much better at transferring knowledge around the BPX world — and in from the outside , ’ says Jenkins . |
| 16 | Show an increased awareness that a first draft is malleable , eg by changing the form in which the material is cast , eg from a story to a playscript , or by moving text around ( either on paper or on a computer screen ) , or by altering sentence structure or choice of vocabulary . |