Example sentences of "[vb past] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack paced around the church . |
| 2 | Doyle was taken aback , and looked slightly morose as they paced around the yard . |
| 3 | His fur leggings became saturated as he paced around the edge . |
| 4 | She paced around the room thinking desperately , she needed free reign to look over her father 's books and records and to speak to the men in his employ . |
| 5 | Emily paced around the room , her skirts swishing against the carpet . |
| 6 | He paced around the room . |
| 7 | My mum and Mrs Quigley were now ritting on the arm of the sofa , their eyes glued to the screen , as Quigley paced around the room . |
| 8 | A NEW row erupted around the Government last night after it signalled it would go slow on new laws to outlaw ticket touts . |
| 9 | Ken put it on top of the locker , where it staggered around the perimeter mewing and testing space with its paw . |
| 10 | The doorway gaped around the guard . |
| 11 | Sand-coloured bastion walls rose around the pool , hiding us from the desert world outside . |
| 12 | She wandered around the lodge , looking patently bored , refusing to take part in activities , and complaining about the service , the primitive facilities , and the lack of time Matthew had for her . |
| 13 | He wandered around the streets in the heart of the city , past darkened buildings with odd floors of offices lit , ready , and empty . |
| 14 | For an hour or so Fabia wandered around the area which the dramatist Goethe had once called ‘ a paradise on earth ’ , and began to wish that she had more holiday than she had in which to explore more fully . |
| 15 | This was not a particularly difficult task since they were all pathetically trained and equipped and stood out conspicuously as they wandered around the countryside asking stupid and suspicious questions in foreign accents . |
| 16 | As Jane wandered around the room , poking in the cupboards , examining the small but luxurious bathroom , Patrick stood by the window staring absently into the Green . |
| 17 | He pushed his chair back and wandered around the room . |
| 18 | ‘ When the guard — he was a KGB man ’ — Myeloski had raised his eyebrows at that point — ‘ had gone , I wandered around the library . |
| 19 | They all trooped in , eating their fish and chips , and clustered around the bed . |
| 20 | Fran switched off the tape-recorder then glanced across the crowded foyer , immediately pin-pointing Luke in a group clustered around the door to the Council Chamber . |
| 21 | They had both apparently been part of the group clustered around the door ; had that been mere coincidence , or had it been Harry Martin that Luke had been so engrossed in talking to ? |
| 22 | They did not express community , clustered around the green and church , in the adventitious manner of the true village ; they were drawn up in parallel lines to each side of the road . |
| 23 | Clustered around the courtyard were the four boutiques , hospitality desk and concierge . |
| 24 | Although other burials clustered around the enclosure , the internal area was respected , until the whole monument was dismantled at some time in the fourth century . |
| 25 | The need to make subjective judgement of , say , age before approaching a potential respondent tends to produce ages unevenly clustered around the middle of the age ranges which must , in any case , be broad to make the technique feasible . |
| 26 | In spring the garden is a feast of blossom and bulbs : snowflake or Loddon lilies clustered around the base of the trees , violet scillas scrambling down the banks and big , old-fashioned daffodils crowded around the mulberry tree . |
| 27 | The wolves clustered around the base of the tree looked up with interest at their next meal talking to himself . |
| 28 | Parents clustered around the gates at the beginning and end of the school day . |
| 29 | In Roman times , of course , Naples and its sprawling suburbs did not exist , but clustered around the shores of the bay of Naples there were many small , thriving towns and ports . |
| 30 | The stuff relinquished its grip upon him readily enough , drifting away to join the main mass of the stuff as it clustered around the end of the Bridge , where some kind of subtle activity seemed to be taking place . |