Example sentences of "[vb pp] from around the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It lay asleep on a piece of sacking the gardener had discarded from around the rose-bush he was planting . |
| 2 | As he reclined in his sofa , surrounded by a treasure trove of knick-knacks collected from around the world , Mark said he had always had a taste for travel . |
| 3 | AN exhibition of hilarious examples of bad English collected from around the world by EC translators went on show yesterday in Brussels . |
| 4 | Attlee did not expect to win the general election held on 5 July 1945 ( though the result was not declared until 26 July , to allow the votes of the Armed Forces to be garnered from around the globe ) . |
| 5 | There were plenty of crumbs to be gathered from around the cheese and scraps of meat and tasty skin to be picked from the carcass of a cooked chicken . |
| 6 | Enquiries about the pyrolysis system have been received from around the world . |
| 7 | With amniocentesis , the cells are found in a small amount of the amniotic fluid withdrawn from around the baby , while chorionic villus sampling involves removing a tiny amount of tissue from the developing placenta earlier on in pregnancy . |