Example sentences of "are [v-ing] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Bangholm reports that members of the club are hanging around the hall as girls are leaving and some of them are rather afraid . |
| 2 | General Bourbollon 's troops are gathering around the capital ; he 's prepared to cross the Rubicon . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The religions which are burgeoning around the world are the ones taking positive , proactive stances . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The drillers on the 150ft high derrick , are working around the clock 7 days a week . |