Example sentences of "be [v-ing] around the " 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 | The rumour mill claims Unix System Laboratories Inc has been sniffing around the Santa Cruz Operation Inc over the last few months — with takeover in mind . |
| 3 | Miss Bangholm reports that members of the club are hanging around the hall as girls are leaving and some of them are rather afraid . |
| 4 | Not on your life — I 've been hanging around the set of Bedroom Farce hoping Chris 'll come back from the bar . |
| 5 | The rooms provided were far too small for the thousands of English scholars who were crammed into them , and the originally excessive numbers were heavily augmented by gate-crashing French students who had been hanging around the fringes of the course all week trying to pick up girls at the Lycée doors . |
| 6 | ‘ Actually , I 'd been hanging around the street for quite some time . |
| 7 | General Bourbollon 's troops are gathering around the capital ; he 's prepared to cross the Rubicon . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What I would say is there are instances that have been happening around the country in the last year , where both doctors , G Ps , and nurses have actually said , you 're not doing that . |
| 10 | I am prowling around the room flexing my fingers , while the hard men fade away with Rover . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And they 're traipsing around the room , getting the bed out , doing this that and the other . |
| 13 | And they 're moving around the sun . |
| 14 | Social embarrassment , duly fictionalised , is an odd commodity to export , and it does not figure in official balance-of-payments figures ; but it has been selling around the world since Fielding 's Tom Jones and Scott 's Waverley , not to mention Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster . |
| 15 | That 's what 's been going around the common room and that 's what all this adds up to . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I did feel a bit ropey earlier in the week and a bug has been going around the club for sometime . |
| 17 | The ash cloud has been moving around the earth at 75 mph at an altitude of about 15 miles up in the stratosphere . |
| 18 | Even though he 's been travelling around the world , he 's kept up with what 's going on back home . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The religions which are burgeoning around the world are the ones taking positive , proactive stances . |
| 21 | The computer would be burbling away and the lights would be fluttering around the console . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | From now on , he 'll be hanging around the motor racing pits . |
| 24 | It is reasonable to assume that an alarming number of dolphin deaths must be occurring around the coasts of the continent which are as yet unreported . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | The Palestinians are blamed , plus any Iraqi soldiers who may still be lurking around the place . |
| 27 | The present owners seemed to be living around the back of the house , beside junk-filled stables . |
| 28 | Tomorrow former Blue Peter presenter Mark Curry will be bounding around the same stage in frock and wig as Lord Fancourt Babberley in the centenary staging of the Brandon Thomas farce . |
| 29 | The important objects of study were assumed , in an a priori manner , to be operating around the formal institutions of local government and its electoral process . |
| 30 | As the show is brought up to performance night , 100 people can be scrambling around the stage . |