Example sentences of "at [det] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Romans were certainly prime movers , but not that quick , and without introducing a pettifogging intimacy with dates , names , and trifling matters of fact , might it be mentioned that the legions were desperately occupied at that time around the Medway and not Melrose ? |
| 2 | She thinks of her father , whom she has never known , of whom she knows nothing , almost nothing , but whose image , it is alleged , is in that locket : an image which also hangs in an identical locket at this moment around her sister 's neck . |
| 3 | And yet he had promised Skelton he would look at some land around Loweswater , and announced that he was so taken with the district he had a mind to settle in it — a statement which brought Miss Skelton to a blush-brink of applause . |
| 4 | Always include a way out of the pond for wildlife at some point around the edge . |
| 5 | Such a reassertion will , in the criminal field , result in the attempt to create consensus at any rate around the crimes which we almost all abhor , such as serious violence ’ ( Bottoms , 1977 : 90 ) . |