Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless she is very fit , able to care for the garden and do decorating and other jobs of that kind around the house , she will miss his support in this way too . |
| 2 | I did the same with another strip around the right ankle and over the foot , so that it was held between the sole of the foot and the wooden backing of the old door . |
| 3 | You must anticipate some damage around the home at this stage , especially if you leave your pet on its own for any length of time . |
| 4 | But there 'll be some jollification around the old homestead tonight and nobody likes tripping the light fantastic better than wor Martin . ’ |
| 5 | It is a so it 's a complex set of interrelationships we 're looking at er on a sub-regional basis , I do believe that there is capacity , some capacity around the inner area of York , and to what extent the greenbelt enquiry er inspector will retain what I and others and certainly York City Council would believe is sufficient capacity remains to be seen , and though similar pleas were made at that enquiry I think they have to be restated here . |
| 6 | According to a British study published in 1984 , at least three-quarters of all dog owners look to their pets to provide some security around the home , but proper training is required to ensure that your dog does not become a dominant tyrant at home . |
| 7 | Pronto is erm an area of the store where we sell our occasional furniture and erm small priced coffee tables , hi-fi units the occasional furniture that may go erm whereas up until a couple of years ago we use to display this product around the showroom floor part of the new concept stores was that we actually set the same section in the showroom which is very much like a a shelving system whereby the stock actually sits on the shelves , the customer walks in and it 's an easy easy purchase straight off the trolley erm very much like the supermarket operation so it 's the lower priced good value occasional type furniture the cash and carry the kind of things that you do n't need sales assistants for the kind of bookcase that you would put in your children 's bedroom that kind of thing . |
| 8 | Pipe another circle around the edges to make nests . |
| 9 | Always include a way out of the pond for wildlife at some point around the edge . |
| 10 | I can recall many hours of enjoyable discussion on this topic around the fire of the servants ' hall at the end of a day . |
| 11 | The latch to the barn is ‘ unlifted ’ which highlights the lack of action in Mariana 's life and the ‘ clinking ’ sound is a reminder of when there was once some movement around the grange . |
| 12 | Leaving her bench , Fabia next took another stroll around the town which so enchanted her . |
| 13 | The Alsatians , their thick pelts soaked and steaming , had sniffed with some certainty around a little icon of the Virgin which stood by the roadside , sheltered from the rain by a stone arch , but after that they had rambled unhappily this way and that and returned whining to their handlers , who were knee-deep in mud , soaked to the skin and cursing roundly . |
| 14 | Walter Ash Clara knew quite well who Walter Ash was , and therefore did not flash this letter around the classroom , as she knew he was not a great prestige catch ; on the contrary , he had a reputation for being rather a bore . |
| 15 | Position smaller leaves at three and six o'clock , then continue in this way around the clockface until you have made a bed of leaves . |
| 16 | The cervix is sealed off with a mucus plug which looks like a pinkish clot and its appearance is a good sign that there is some activity around the cervix . |
| 17 | Question : What do you get if you travel half way around the world and spend seven 19-hour days debating Amnesty 's future ? |
| 18 | But their need for each other was the basis of Rich 's affection for Philip and the source of the older man 's power over the boy who would gratefully take his teacher 's name and put it up in lights half way around the world . |
| 19 | P&O CONTAINERS have shipped a yacht half way around the world so that she can take part in a round-the=world race ! |
| 20 | Answer guide : This question is looking for some discussion around the realization and prudence principles . |
| 21 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 22 | Another deterrent around a house is gravel . |
| 23 | As long ago as the first century A.D. , the Roman author Pliny , in his monumental Natural History , suggested that placing branches of this shrub around an object would keep cats away from it . |
| 24 | Since it is LSI 's own proprietary design rather than Sun 's this time around no royalties will have to be paid to Sun , another factor in its economy . |
| 25 | This time around no great pressure was exerted by the home team . |
| 26 | Observers see the acquisition as a logical match , and — following Novell Inc 's planned acquisition of Unix System Labs — evidence of further consolidation in the Unix industry , this time around the desktop . |
| 27 | A different route this time around the back of the mountain , over the stream by way of some stepping-stones . |
| 28 | Gloucester won 14 -3 and Nottingham dropped down to the second division … this time around the Kingsholm men are looking over their shoulders … but those relegation worries were eased last Saturday with that 18-6 win over London Irish … tonight it 's a club match no league points to be won or lost but Gloucester want every win they can get |
| 29 | Do n't worry folks , I knew what to do — smear some butter around the head and neck . |
| 30 | The Kaszubes are part of the ancient complex of Slav tribes who had occupied the southern Baltic shores right up to the Danish borders some time around the fifth and seventh centuries AD . |