Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peasants had shown themselves fully capable of organizing resistance around their traditional village institutions , and their determination to take over the nobility 's land was their own . |
| 2 | He was soon overpowered with either sleep or cold , when his faithful defendant , who had closely attended to every step , scratched away the snow so as to throw up a sort of protecting wall around his helpless master ; then mounting upon the exposed body , rolled himself round and lay upon his master 's bosom , for which his shaggy coat proved a most seasonable covering and eventual protection during the dreadful severity of the night , the snow falling all the time . |
| 3 | In the same way that the human body , for instance , is an integrated whole whose individual parts serve particular ‘ needs ’ of the system ( for example , the heart performs the function of pumping blood around the body , the bowel functions to collect and evacuate solid-waste products , and so on ) , so society comprises a system of interdependent institutions each with a contribution to make to the overall stability and continuity of the whole . |
| 4 | Shariff Nassir , KANU 's Mombasa branch chairman , said that Kenya was a haven on the African continent , and that the USA had " formed the habit of creating trouble around the world " . |
| 5 | to say the through traffic element erm erm did n't did n't function as well in terms of distributing traffic around the network which wanted to access . |