Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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1 | The question has been designed to allow discussion around the stock valuation method , and the choice of absorption or marginal cost basis . |
2 | A 1¼KW medium wave transmitter was installed to improve reception around the capital . |
3 | It is intended to start work around April 1993 . |
4 | Although just over half of a sample of teenage mothers in 1979 — 80 had had some kind of family planning lesson at school , only a quarter had attempted to use contraception around the time they conceived . |
5 | Beside the ruin , the grass had been scythed to rough ankle-length around a handful of old gravestones and an incon-gruously clean slab of veined grey marble that lay glinting in the sun . |
6 | Firstly the hole , if wet , was dried out with a swabbing stick and wadding and the charge was then poured in , care being taken to avoid spillage around the mouth of the hole . |