Example sentences of "[noun sg] around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman came out of her house and apparently poured a pot of tea around the base of a bush . |
| 2 | Western press reports noted a rise in banditry around the refugee camps on the Thai border , leading to an indefinite suspension of UN aid shipments from Thailand into Cambodia from Sept. 21 . |
| 3 | Having spent much of the glorious summer last year sitting in the shade of the apple tree I decided that if such summers were to continue it would be a good idea to build a permanent seat around the tree . |
| 4 | At 27 years old , and having won 52 international caps , ‘ Jacki ’ had earned recognition around the world and , more importantly , the permission of the Polish authorities to move abroad . |
| 5 | In this circuit ( figure ) , the data input controls gate IC ID establishing positive or negative feedback around the oscillator formed by IC IA IC IB and IC IC . |
| 6 | As is so often the case , these gates have been made by someone who has obviously no experience of walking , because they are impossible to negotiate with a rucksack on , unless you climb onto the bottom bars of the fence around the gate to lift the sack above the top rail . |
| 7 | But in the end the resident was only allowed to inspect the security of the chain link fence around the dump . |
| 8 | He was caught in a massive police hunt launched after the four fled through a hole in a fence around the jail playing field . |
| 9 | Erect a small fence around the pool consisting of short canes abut 15 cm ( 6 in ) high , linked together with a single strand of fishing line . |
| 10 | An even larger protest was held the following year when 10,000 people gathered , many of them climbing a staircase of straw bales built over the ten-foot high barbed wire fence around the site . |
| 11 | ‘ Yanto Gates , ’ she squeaked , ‘ if you think I am going to hare around the country in all winds and weathers in a contraption like that , you 've got another think coming . |
| 12 | Thick , textured fabrics are unsuitable as they do not take the stiffening well and also produce too much bulk around the roller . |
| 13 | Today there are over 36 million cards in circulation around the world . |
| 14 | The venture has been conspicuously successful in giving a platform to Scottish musicians , and in building audience momentum around the country , although the break from now until the autumn could threaten the latter achievement . |
| 15 | The Labour government sought from the start to construct and hold together a support bloc around the theme of a ‘ social contract ’ , and I propose to organise my account of the development of political forces in this period around that same theme . |
| 16 | She ran her forefinger around the inside of the white pyrex bowl and said nothing . |
| 17 | I cut down young trees and put them in the ground , in a half-circle around the front of my tent . |
| 18 | Most of the talk around the world has been of " stages " , as though these units , though of no defined dimensions , are the ultimate in stratigraphical correlation on a world-wide scale . |
| 19 | It was originally powered by an iron and wood breast shot water wheel , replaced with a turbine around the turn of the century . |
| 20 | Starting in the early days of St Cuthberts with local delivery carts , there has been continuous use of this economical form of transport , through the heyday of the horse around the turn of the century , and the rapid change to motorized vehicles in the 1920s and 30s , to the hire carriages in use today . |
| 21 | The left-hand chambers have to pump much harder to force the re-oxygenated blood around the whole of the body . |
| 22 | There were some thin smears of blood around the wound . |
| 23 | Compressed air oscillates the ventricles , circulating blood around the body . |
| 24 | Accordingly , the rhythmic compression of our leg-veins when we walk , or chest-veins when we breathe , turn these veins into little peristaltic pumps , aiding the circulation of the blood around the body . |
| 25 | Blood pressure is the pressure which the heart and arteries apply in order to squeeze the blood around the body . |
| 26 | Circulation of blood around the body is comparatively slow when we are just going about our normal daily tasks . |
| 27 | The HEART pumps blood around the body . |
| 28 | The heart is a pump which pumps blood around the body . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So the capillaries are the very fine tubes that carry the blood around the body . |