Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I am struggling around the 15 miles mark then my determination will be just to finish , but it is my ambition to break 2hr 25min . ’ |
| 2 | Miss Bangholm reports that members of the club are hanging around the hall as girls are leaving and some of them are rather afraid . |
| 3 | General Bourbollon 's troops are gathering around the capital ; he 's prepared to cross the Rubicon . |
| 4 | I do n't know any of these fellow who are tearing around the place but the odds are first of all that they are unemployed , secondly that they feel that nobody really cares about them , thirdly that the only way to get any sort of excitement out of life is to charge around the way they do . |
| 5 | I am prowling around the room flexing my fingers , while the hard men fade away with Rover . |
| 6 | Back at the Ritzy queues are forming around the block , and one of the production team has spotted a pair of diehard Hitman fans in the queue . |
| 7 | And they 're traipsing around the room , getting the bed out , doing this that and the other . |
| 8 | And they 're moving around the sun . |
| 9 | Four of them are bubbling around the kitchen and the other two are in the front room keeping an eye on the visitors , roped up on the floor watching two blacks the size of quarter-backs shaking through their jackets . |
| 10 | The religions which are burgeoning around the world are the ones taking positive , proactive stances . |
| 11 | Or rather , Francis is actually going to play soldiers , I 'm sneaking around the place to see what I can see and maybe take a few incriminating photos with my trusty Box Brownie . ’ |
| 12 | I walk out to the bus , I get on the bus at the end of Care Street , I walk right along Care Street , right up Dawsons Street , brisk walk and then I 'm walking around the garage , I do n't do that much walking now , the bloody car , but I take a walk at lunchtime and I walk down to the bar , walking , if you walk , that would be total couple of miles a day |
| 13 | The best time to get people to talk about themselves is when you are sitting around the table over a meal or having tea , and when they are relaxed and are not likely to be diverted by other activities . |
| 14 | I think what 's very striking about the report which the students ' union have recently published and are circulating around the university , is the extent to which they have tended to define sexual harassment as being as much or at least as much a problem between students , a problem of behaviour between students and a problem of the sort of atmosphere in the colleges in terms of how that affects how peoples lives feel and and how they are how their behaviour what sort of behaviour is acceptable . |
| 15 | The drillers on the 150ft high derrick , are working around the clock 7 days a week . |