Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other viruses have a complex structure in which many different proteins are arranged in a highly ordered way around a large piece of DNA or RNA . |
| 2 | Since Holyfield took over and made grandad-bashing respectable on the heavyweight scene , those young lions who ought to have been clawing each other for the right to depose and expose him have been harmlessly shadow boxing around each other . |
| 3 | Our salesmen are still selling hotelware around the world . |
| 4 | This usually takes place around the end of the fortieth week — 280 days — although in this as in so many aspects of sex and reproduction there is considerable variability . |
| 5 | The restoration also involved removal around the damage of old repaint which obscured some of the thumb prints which , uniquely in Poussin 's work , texture the whole picture surface . |
| 6 | The firm had been accused of illegally moving money around banks to earn interest from several accounts at once . |
| 7 | This artificial ash cliff is perhaps one of their last strongholds have also found refuge around our fire stations , protected from tramping feet and sheltered from chemical sprays these rare plants thrive in the damp salty margins alongside the ash lagoons all this within the boundaries with just a few of the country 's coal fired power stations but the need for sea walls of other coastal stations merely intake pipes to the coaling system , another world teams this is not a plant , fan worms have flowerlike mouth parts used to filter food from the sea water other worms use just two sticky tentacles to catch food shrimps forage over closely packed sea the delicate bodies of these printed vertebrates work as tiny water pumps , pulling water in one hole and pumping it through the other here two barnacles feed in the gentle flow of water over the cooling pipes from the station Marine life quickly packs the underwater structures and is about to become too thick and sometimes affect the performance of the machinery barnacles belong to the same family as crabs and lobsters , but being in their adult life standing on their head which is fixed to the concrete they use their feet to filter the water and kick food into their mouths but if they ca n't move , how do they get there so quickly in the first place ? |
| 8 | The meeting with Picasso , which probably took place around the time this picture was being painted or soon after , must have encouraged him in turning his back completely on Fauvism . |
| 9 | Checking out Litla Skerry and the Vongs ( fangs ) — two isolated groups of rocks west of Out Skerries , where small groups of eider had been known to shelter — without finding any eider , we then went north around the main island , getting occasional glimpses of houses through the narrow entrances to the harbour . |