Example sentences of "way around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes with having an overdraft and knowing one 's way around the Prado . |
| 2 | Baldi , who had been watching the show , now tried to find a way around the Jaguar for himself . |
| 3 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 4 | A small man whose charm belied his determination , he had proved his abilities in action in France , and — what was probably more important at this stage of the commandos ' ill-fortunes — he knew his way around the Whitehall ministries . |
| 5 | He read the game appallingly , was caught out several times , and chuffed his way around the back right like a horse that was due for the knackers yard . |
| 6 | NOT since the heady days of Shirley Temple tapping her dinky way around the globe has a pint-sized child star held the Hollywood moguls in such thrall . |
| 7 | So really , this is no more wonderful than a dolphin learning its way around the complexities of its natural marine environment so that it may find — and catch — the best shoals of fish . |
| 8 | Besides , I 'd be too shy to ask the way from who had such an obvious contempt for children who still did n't know their way around the school . |
| 9 | What is needed is an adequate route map to enable everyone to find their way around the system ( Bergen , 1975 ) . |
| 10 | I pay tribute to the Chairmen of the Social Security Select Committee and of the Health Select Committee , who have found a way around the difficulties of operating together and have produced a more interesting report as a result . |
| 11 | Simone was busy unpacking the bags , finding her way around the kitchen , asking whether there was any garlic because she was pretty efficient at making garlic bread . |
| 12 | Position smaller leaves at three and six o'clock , then continue in this way around the clockface until you have made a bed of leaves . |
| 13 | From behind the ruched net curtains , she could see him plodding his way around the green . |
| 14 | And for more than a mile they threaded their way around the standing pools that reached from the verges out into the drying roadway . |
| 15 | In addition to machine advantage , Mitchell knows his way around the North West course , having won here in ‘ 84 and ‘ 89 . |
| 16 | You go all the way around the country , there simply are n't women there . |
| 17 | A PARCEL winging its way around the country carrying a homing device may sound like something straight from the pages of a James Bond story but there is nothing top secret about the idea . |
| 18 | Full colour map of Holland to help you plan your route and find your way around the country . |
| 19 | From what Pavel had said earlier he was working his way around the country , from station to station , leaving exactly the same message at each . |
| 20 | They had to pick their way around the rest of it , because the floors were mainly gone , although some big holes still had carpet laid across them . |
| 21 | Mark Thwaites is to pound his way around the capital on April 12th in an effort to raise more than £1,000 for the charity Tusk Force . |
| 22 | This is of little consequence to grubs and maggots , for they hold their interminable feasts out of sight of the rest of the world , gobbling their way around the heart of an apple or gnawing tunnels in wood , shielded by what they are eating . |
| 23 | Having digressed on our way around the village , all that is left is the marsh and the woods . |
| 24 | He led the way around the edge of a marsh and then through drier land , with limestone boulders on it . |
| 25 | He disliked the estate car almost as much as the Suffolk Punch , which was why he preferred to make his way around the streets of Dynmouth on a bicycle . |
| 26 | Knows his way around The Guardian crossword . |
| 27 | The University Art Gallery in the Portland Building has always been open to the public , but it was necessary to know one 's way around the campus to take advantage of this . |
| 28 | He knows his way around the course and , with any luck , I felt the ground would come up soft . |
| 29 | On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par . |
| 30 | She lugged her case up the wrong stairway , came out facing the open lough , had to find her way around the superstructure . |