Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [noun pl] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 2 | I remember the war and my travels around the world . |
| 3 | Dr Neil was not in any way surprised at McAllister 's reaction to his lovemaking ; he expected such modesty from a well brought up young girl , and her arms around his neck , her timid responses , fluttering though they were , told him that she felt for him what he felt for her , and further inflamed his own passion , while warning him to go gently . |
| 4 | Things had improved — Jessica had been seen to laugh twice , and her hands around her knife and fork were less whiteknuckled — but there was no guarantee they would go on improving . |
| 5 | CRMF 's major national fund raising event , The World 's Biggest Coffee Morning on 1st October , was enthusiastically supported by Johnson Matthey staff and their families around the country . |
| 6 | Holden ( 1983 ) followed mothers and their toddlers around supermarkets to see how mothers use different strategies to avoid behaviour problems . |
| 7 | How much more bad publicity do the Government have to get on the failure of their housing programme from the Duke of Edinburgh , Conservative councillors and their supporters around the country before they do what we are all asking them to do and undertake a planned release of the capital receipts ? |
| 8 | Surely , I thought , she would need to have her brothers and their wives around her more , not less , frequently now ? |
| 9 | The new body will strengthen close links that already exist between RSPB staff and volunteers in East Anglia and their counterparts around the world . |
| 10 | He was using an elderly Austin A35 van to ferry himself and his sons around London . |
| 11 | It is the pressures of the people of South Africa and our supporters around the world who will compel the regime to negotiate real and fundamental change . |