Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 27 years old , and having won 52 international caps , ‘ Jacki ’ had earned recognition around the world and , more importantly , the permission of the Polish authorities to move abroad . |
| 2 | The fire was still burning in the hearth ; all the draughts had long since been stopped ; but the room itself had gone chill around her . |
| 3 | The incident had taken place around the back of the Berkeley cinema , with a very busty but willing land army girl . |
| 4 | As far as any of them knew , the last elephant fights had taken place around the turn of the century in the princely states of Rajputana ; and as for partridge fights , said my friends , those sorts of Mughal traditions had all died out at Partition . |
| 5 | He had to have space around him — and he could create his own space — and then he could work . |