Example sentences of "[adv prt] around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The XJ speeds north over the road-bridge , no lights or siren on but we clip along and it 's the smoothest fucking motorway journey I 've ever had ; just a total hassle-free zone creaming along around the ton with no worries about unmarked police cars and hoo-wee the traffic in front of us just fucking evaporates ; man , just brakes ( and wobbles sometimes as the guy probably gets the cold sweats and the wo-where'd-my-stomach-go ? feeling ) , swings meekly left and brakes again ; you 've never seen a beefy BMW 5-series duck in so fast in your life ; might as well all be driving 2CVs . |
| 2 | Armed and unarmed Iranians streamed in-along with gusts of tear gas that the US marines had laid down around the door . |
| 3 | These include Stanwick Castle and an older property at Streatlam which was probably being pulled down around the time Edelson House was built , he says . |
| 4 | There was no message from the police captain , and he was on the point of leaving again for the City of Dreams when a rickshaw , its linen sunscreens pulled down around the passenger seat , rushed into the square and stopped by him , blocking his path . |
| 5 | Not long afterwards , when the visitors had left , Chola fetched the rugs from the inner room and the family lay down around the fire and slept . |
| 6 | Even as the car was pulling away , another was swinging in around the Green . |
| 7 | She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt . |
| 8 | But in 1919 disenchantment set in around the globe . |
| 9 | The dead trees had edged closer to the settlement ; they crowded in around the clearing and the blackthorn hill , with its bones and its wooden idols . |
| 10 | On encoffining , the hood would be unfolded and drawn over the face , the top sheet turned up and tucked in around the neck , if not higher . |
| 11 | The Albanians feel the CSCE has been hoodwinked , and believe that guns are being dug in around the city . |
| 12 | He had to hitch his chair forward to make room for a party who were moving in around the table behind him . |
| 13 | So the main tension in Around The World In 80 Days ( BBC 1 ) , in which Michael Palin does a Phileas Fogg , is whether the famously amiable presenter will ever rise to a barbed remark . |
| 14 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
| 15 | ‘ Thank you , I enjoyed being a part of that , ’ she said gravely , as the procession wended its way off around the village before finally returning to the church . |
| 16 | Harriers take off around the clock from hastily constructed hides . |
| 17 | Charles Frederick was the odd one out in this respect — his feet were far too itchy to allow him to settle down into any sort of domesticity , and he would prove the fact in a dramatic enough way by sailing off around the world as soon as the opportunity presented itself . |
| 18 | It is that time of year again when we all trail off around the world to some exotic destination to experience some real ethnic culture , or even Mrs Fishfinger 's Bed & Breakfast in Blackpool . |
| 19 | Volcanos will start popping off around the world throwing up tonnes of dust . |
| 20 | Setting off around the corner after negotiating the flake on Valkyrie . |
| 21 | That summer I could only think he was mad as he set off around the town and I dozed in the dark heat and stillness of the garden . |
| 22 | Now that would do , that would do whether the , whether the knuckles were hurt or it was just a minor cut in the palm of the hand there , that would do and you can use the same type of bandage on the foot alright , so that 's if the hand was damaged , now supposing we did n't have the hand damaged , but we had instead a cut up here , okay , again clean it and if you clean it with lots of water always remember to dry off around the wound because bugs love a moist skin to grow in , dry the wound before you apply the dressing okay if you can , dry it off the best you can and then you 're going to place that over the cut , remember you want the pad to be long enough , big enough , okay , now she can hold this for you again , she can hold it above where the wound is and now when you bandage this one you always bandage from the narrow part to the fat part of the limb , you always bandage from the narrow to the fat , so you take the bandage down |
| 23 | The lieutenant snorted in disgust , and strode off around the room to bully his men . |
| 24 | Although at first it may prove excitable and run off around the garden , the puppy should soon return to you . |
| 25 | He might have said to her that some time in the middle of the nineteenth century a cult had grown up around the idea of the home . |
| 26 | Annabel units from Bernstein 's Misty Bedroom Range set up around the bed form an attractive alcove with a dressing table unit and cupboards . |
| 27 | For instance , the smooth flowing curve of the soft rail encourages water to follow the line of the rail up around the board , therefore having the effect of sucking the board into the water . |
| 28 | The ‘ Early Bird ’ photographic sessions saw all three locomotives plus the BRM 's own No. 5080 ‘ Defiant ’ lined up around the turntable in the November sunshine . |
| 29 | A real science is now growing up around the concept of the human window , while there is no evidence or logical reason to accept Fredkin 's supposition at all . |
| 30 | instinctively out to Barber , three men up around the edge of the area . |