Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elaine had placed her arm around his neck . |
| 2 | She waited while her maids adjusted her cloak around her shoulders , and then took her cap from the page who held it and put it on . |
| 3 | ‘ For the past few years I have built my life around rugby and I am happy to go on doing that until I ca n't go any further in the game ’ , he said . |
| 4 | Lowe 's mother , who has built her life around her son as a zombie , is thrown into shock and confusion when her son awakens … |
| 5 | Advocaat has shaped his team around a five-man attack aimed at overwhelming San Marino 's part-timers . |
| 6 | I had seen his arm around the weeping mother he was leaving . |
| 7 | He picked up her hand and put it on his cock ; then placed his own hand over hers and made her squeeze ; it was hot , even under the rough material of his trousers , and rolled about clumsily over the squidgier sack of his balls ; but he was panting , making stirring motions with his knees against her legs , working with his free hand at his waistband , until he freed himself from his flies and had wrapped her hand around his naked cock ; he spat on his hand and worked the spittle onto the skin , and when he made her hold him again , she felt the wetness on her fingers , and drying fast as he pumped himself up and down over her hand , pinning her hand under his . |
| 8 | Tom 's got his arm around me , hugging me , and the commentator says , ‘ Look at the smile on that caddie 's face . |
| 9 | He 'd gathered his life around him like a cloak in which there was only room enough for one . |
| 10 | I sneaked a look at face , although I could scarcely see through the veiled curtain which had so mysteriously woven its way around my eyes . |
| 11 | The market place was the growing point of most towns , and they have taken their shape around it . |
| 12 | And Kate 's mother had put her arm around him and pulled him towards her . |
| 13 | Hunt , who had occasionally had to sleep in the same bed as his father , found nothing alarming in this until Minton , who had put his arm around the younger man , began moving it slowly down his chest . |
| 14 | She had smiled uncertainly at Isabel and had started to say something , but then Simon had put his arm around her waist and had led her away , his head bent over her fair one , his expression tender . |
| 15 | Feeling the movement , Michele would have put his arm around her , but she drew away , deliberately distancing herself . |
| 16 | For another — she was remembering the familiar way in which Lubor had put his arm around her yesterday . |
| 17 | Well , if you are typical of your birth sign , you will have already made up your mind and taken your leave around August 6th , when it became apparent that certain associates had sided against you or even gone so far as to hatch some kind of plot . |