Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening I decided to begin my search around the shower area . |
| 2 | I have a suspicion that my clothes-sense around the side roads of Frenchay and Stapleton shocks a few of my friends . |
| 3 | Every day , I always used to stick my head around the office door and say , ‘ Anything for me today ? ’ — and one day they said , ‘ Well , we 're looking for dancers for the BBC 's production of Pistol Shot ( which was a play by Chekhov ) — maybe you 'd like to do it and choreograph it and use some of your students ? ’ |
| 4 | I made my way through the crowds to Farr 's in Brown Street , managed to get right up to the entrance and poke my head around the door to see what was going on . |
| 5 | I could n't quite get my head around the fact that this vast underground world existed , going on and on underground with chambers , tunnels , streams and pools , all underneath hills , roads and houses . |
| 6 | I could n't get my tongue around the consonants ; I lisped . |
| 7 | Seeking to remedy this sad state of affairs , I browsed my way around the bookshop from floor to floor , upstairs and down and in and out of little book-filled rooms that the owners themselves may have forgotten about . |
| 8 | M. Dupont resumed his conversation and I continued my way around the room for some moments . |
| 9 | It 's almost 17 years since I was last hauled up a mountainside with a metal bar across my bum , two poles in one hand and my arm around the anorak of an unknown Austrian whose only English was ‘ Bend ze knees ’ and ‘ Open ze legs ’ . |
| 10 | She played in the women 's basketball and used to ride her bike around the university . |
| 11 | And it evinces a rather daring readiness to weave its fiction around the world of work , where private lives are inextricably bound up with talk of profit margins and raw materials . |
| 12 | The Manport reached my ship 's airlock and clamped on , with puffs of a vapour as it formed its insta-seal around the join . |
| 13 | Just when Tod has established our relationship with Irene on a secure footing , the kind of set-up that any sane man would kill for , with her punctual visits and affectionate phone calls , the movies we enjoy together , the fine dining , the peace and safety ( the forgiveness ) that her presence confers , plus the exquisitely torpid lovemaking which takes place right on the button every couple of months or so , and reaching the stage , now , where I think we can tackle her , gently but firmly , about her untidiness around the house , because it 's best to get these things out in the open , not to let them rankle and fester , and so on-guess what . |
| 14 | Other factors can alter the Earth 's climate from millennium to millennium and decade to decade , including slight changes in its orbit around the Sun , and the effects of greenhouse are superimposed on these other factors . |
| 15 | Because of the way that the Moon moves in its orbit around the Earth , its place of rising on the horizon varies a little , each night moving a tiny amount further north until its position of rising seems to come to a halt ( a standstill ) before moving back southwards again . |
| 16 | Astronomically , this is because as the Earth moves around on its axis every 24 hours , the Moon during the day and night moves through one-thirtieth of its orbit around the Earth . |
| 17 | In particular , it was believed that the speed of light ought to change as the earth moves through the ether on its orbit around the sun . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She ran her forefinger around the inside of the white pyrex bowl and said nothing . |
| 20 | The newspapers said that this was due to the fact that the Syrian army was tightening its ring around the southern suburbs of Beirut where the French and American hostages were thought to be . |
| 21 | His eyes glazed with grim courage uncharacteristic of his kind , his broad hands tightened their grip around the cleaver . |
| 22 | From the very start , he had been in love with her , following her act around the clubs . |
| 23 | She was able to talk about herself in a more positive way , and this she attributed to having felt useful and capable when helping her sister-in-law around the house . |
| 24 | Within a few days she seemed very accepting of the situation , almost enjoying not having her husband around the house . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But more and more lucky people will be able to plan their retirement around the cash their parents leave them . |
| 27 | The owner of the Home may pop her head around the door and say , ‘ I 'm going into the town today , can I do anything for you ? . ’ |
| 28 | Ace poked her head around the stone with the idea of following , but covering fire from Richmann blasted chunks from the stone and forced her to duck back again . |
| 29 | She was nearly finished — polishing the taps — when Bryony poked her head around the half-open door . |
| 30 | The children were watching TV peacefully , but Annie saw her as she bobbed her head around the door , gave a pleased gurgle and started to scramble down . |