Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will now be exhibited in a series of large display cases arranged around the seven circular balconies on the fourth floor . |
| 2 | But once the contents of these plans got around the rumours died down and people began to say that the family must be coming back . ’ |
| 3 | You may refuse to believe it 's happened to you : some people who 've been made redundant pretend everything 's the way it was and set off for work at the same time , then spend hours hanging around the streets , teashops or libraries until they can go home at the usual time . |
| 4 | The American researchers got around the problem by synchronising a pulsed laser and a pulsed gas jet so the pulse of laser light hit the gas just as it emerged from the jet into the vacuum chamber . |
| 5 | Thanks to the generosity of local travel company Regent Holidays UK Ltd we were able to advertise in Venue magazine and to have AA signs erected around the city to direct traffic to the Watershed Media Centre were the whole event took place . |
| 6 | The fuel for the plants came from several uranium mines located around the country . |
| 7 | To make matters worse , all the inventions are hidden in the various objects scattered around the cave system , so you 'll need all your wits about you if you 're to do it . |
| 8 | Karen reported the theft the police and the ranger , and spent hours driving around the roads looking for Tang . |
| 9 | I grab the butt , with my fingers curled around the reel seating , and strike . |
| 10 | His fingers curled around the butt of the gun , taking up a gentle purchase on the trigger . |
| 11 | The youth snaked his hand behind the door but as his fingers curled around the hilt of the sheathed poniard Graham appeared behind him and pressed the Beretta into his back . |
| 12 | Al-Makesh 's fingers curled around the Beretta . |
| 13 | There are no outstanding houses but the lines of brick houses grouped around the central green and round smaller greens in other parts of the village form a pleasing composition . |
| 14 | He took a stick and poked the leaves till they glowed , orange flames flickered around the strap and the helmet began to shrivel , slowly becoming unrecognisable , so that Barnes would n't pull it out later and bring it back to the house . |
| 15 | Rows of neatly arranged dog corpses have been discovered , about 1,200 in all , each animal placed on its side , legs flexed , tails tucked around the hindlegs . |
| 16 | VANILLA ICE was ticketed for a fire code violation in San Antonio , Texas , after inviting fans to gather around the stage . |
| 17 | There are other ways of expressing pain and feeling , but the tentative , half-hearted approach which characterised the whole production was perfectly illustrated when , after the catastrophe , the books arranged around the playing area were scattered and the tall bookcases overturned . |
| 18 | Joe 's eyes rolled around the room , noticing the expensive furniture I had bought recently . |
| 19 | There are also some decorative arts scattered around the museum , and one wishes there were more . |
| 20 | It operates by exchanging infra-red signals with a network of sensors installed around the building , which are in turn connected to an Ethernet . |
| 21 | She nodded and her alert hazel eyes flickered around the room , taking everyone in . |
| 22 | In 1977 , I had crouched in the corridors of Beaufort as Christian militia shells crashed around the castle walls . |
| 23 | The two Sea Kings narrowly escaped being hit as shells crashed around the landing zone in the Srebrenica football stadium . |
| 24 | Shells crashed around the football stadium landing zone while the injured were being carried on board . |
| 25 | The workgroup could be located in the same office , or split among a number of offices located around the world . |
| 26 | In Sarajevo , some of the heaviest shelling in recent months erupted around the besieged city as leaders of Bosnia 's warring factions prepared for a new round of peace talks in New York . |
| 27 | While Nicaragua and El Salvador were perceived during the 1980s by the US State Department to be on the frontline of the fight against communism ( and therefore newsworthy ) , the larger-scale massacres in neighbouring Guatemala received no attention : journalists wandering around the scorched highlands simply could n't get their stories printed . |
| 28 | Unisys says it also intends to offer CTOS networked workstations and servers built around the Pentium in the fourth quarter . |
| 29 | Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied the launch last week of its first two servers built around the 7100 superscalar version of the Precision Architecture RISC with the latest release of its HP-UX Unix , HP-UX 9.0 . |
| 30 | Those with this type of first language may see the result as a tendency for native English speakers to talk around the subject instead of making black and white statements and decisions . |