Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a suspicion that my clothes-sense around the side roads of Frenchay and Stapleton shocks a few of my friends . |
| 2 | His eyes played over her blouse and she noticed that his hand around the whisky glass trembled a little . |
| 3 | So many and so extraordinary were the stories she told me that our trip around his tiny château lasted for more than an hour and a half , with not a boring moment . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | The realistic base to the novel consists of a sea-journey by Fenwick Turner , a former CIA agent , and his wife around the Chesapeake Bay . |
| 6 | He had not easily shaken Claudine off — not that he had tried — and his arm around the girl 's waist had irritated Jenna unbelievably . |
| 7 | She felt her hands slide to his shoulders as his grip around her tightened , and the hardness of those shoulders , the power she could feel in them , sent a shiver of long-forgotten yearning tearing through her . |