Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] around [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every morning she arrived at our door and spent five minutes flustering around with her hand-broom . |
| 2 | There are a few non-Leeds supporters lurking around on the list I think . |
| 3 | Dragons flying around in the sky , breathing flames … ’ |
| 4 | a mate of mine actually worked out in Russia and he said you know , piece of discussions about when , where the Russian 's sort of appear first and this sort of he said he said erm , this , he said that , that kids running around on the streets of Moscow is actually given a working permit and so he could actual work there and sort of like er |
| 5 | Maggie came up , slinging her black bag over her shoulder , her shimmering grey eyes glancing around with interest . |
| 6 | You could n't afford to have drivers sitting around for ten minutes not doing anything , so you married these routes up together and were able to , by manipulation , get them to a more economical run . |
| 7 | He watched Simon 's trainers padding around to the back door only inches from his face and he wanted to scream , to rid himself of the unbearable tension . |
| 8 | ‘ And we did n't want to see a team of scriptwriters messing around with our characters . |
| 9 | He looked , little doubt of it , considerably relieved , but clearly there was something on his mind , for he stood hesitantly beside the table , his eyes scouting around for some object upon which to focus . |
| 10 | But one child I know caught his parents prowling around with stockings at the dead of night and is now impressing upon his little pals that the whole thing is a con . |
| 11 | Mice are not clockwork mice running around on a course which is the predictable inevitable consequence of some internal machinery . |
| 12 | there are incidentally I think bits of , even there is a duty of care is n't there which , there 's duties floating around in your defence somewhere |
| 13 | Above all , why were these chaps messing around with helium-filled contraptions , in an age of routine rocketry ? |
| 14 | Outside the window are a few sticks lying around on the grass . |
| 15 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 16 | You will see the park 's tigers on hot days splashing around in their pool . |
| 17 | Apparently there are some interesting , exciting , progressive , damn fool ideas going around about renationalising the water industry . |
| 18 | The galaxy — catalogue number 3C 324 — is full of extremely bright glowing gases moving around at very high speeds . |
| 19 | Henceforth the old spectacle of brokers milling around on the Stock Exchange floor was replaced by silent , almost invisible , computerized networks for dealers , reflecting the new internationalism of the stock market . |
| 20 | All the greatest journalistic intelligences in the business , who had spent the past few weeks travelling around with their ears to the ground , confirmed it . |
| 21 | There 's at least two other poor sods trudging around in the wet when they could be clocking off and going home . |
| 22 | There was now a great congestion of horsemen milling around in the area between town and castle . |
| 23 | Sooner or later you will find one or more adult insects crawling around inside the cage . |
| 24 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought I 'd just spend my days messing around with nothing to do , ’ says that 17-year-old . |
| 26 | Patting a horse , instead of stroking or scratching it , only has a few valid uses : as a muscular relaxant and distraction ; and as a part of ‘ breaking-in ’ so that the horse gets used to things thumping around on its back before it is actually ridden . |
| 27 | She looked at him as though in understanding , but she could n't answer him for a moment for there were so many things whirling around in her mind : that doctor and her Emma … |
| 28 | There were lots of interesting things lying around for them to eat and together they munched their way through a large book . |
| 29 | If you see the caterpillars crawling around on the bottom of the cage , you will know it is time to put some soil there . |
| 30 | Distant notes of caution crept into her thoughts , instantly swamped by the horde of frightening , exciting feelings teeming around inside her . |