Example sentences of "around [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did n't my father tell me that you were going to be here ? ’ she asked petulantly , thinking that at least he would only be around during the daytime , and she could avoid him completely without too much trouble . |
| 2 | I also had time to look around during the year and consider colours and character of growth . |
| 3 | Some bands stay up most of the night and that is why they are never around during the day . |
| 4 | The golden boys , those who never give the bad news , who make sure that when the plant breaks down they are not available to inform anybody , and have made absolutely certain they were n't around during the run-up to such a disaster , are rewarded . |
| 5 | What they want out of a gang fight is a nice big bruise … that they can show around during the week . ’ |
| 6 | Sigourney was coming on last and we were going to move the seats around during the interval because we felt that she might not be able to concentrate sitting next to the heavily made-up and highly camp Julian . |
| 7 | Well one of the things that I think has been very striking about John Major , and unfortunately again I 'm comparing him with Mrs. Thatcher , but it 's very difficult not to , thank goodness she was n't around during the Gulf war — that 's my feeling — because I do n't think I could have borne the idea of erm any more rejoice and up an atom and things like that . |
| 8 | Around about a bit later they er Charles the Second was er came down out of his oak tree and climbed on to the throne and round about that time you found the childhood of erm childhood of Robert Walpole who was a famous politician in well first half of the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | A joke went around about a passer-by who saw a man drowning in a canal . |
| 10 | To crash a plane into Beckindale around about the anniversary of Lockerbie it is n't funny at all it 's not funny and it 's not clever . |
| 11 | Word had already gone around about the sex sequence , and there was also some interest in the political content , coming as it did shortly after the attempts at peace in Vietnam and Nixon 's pledge to end the war . |
| 12 | ‘ Though I 've got to tell you there 's some gossip going around about the cousin you 've got staying . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Rumours are going around about the bread It is making , the increase in circulation , the increase in ads , and yet that cat is still hustling for bread . ’ |
| 14 | Great reports are going around about the celebration of the Easter Triduum . |
| 15 | All I want to obtain from you is that the information the , that it will not be excluded around about the end , as soon as they take place . |
| 16 | Around about the period when Monsieur Henri Mignet and his incredible Pou du Ciel , or ‘ Flying Flea ’ , was captivating the Great British Public 's imagination with his aeronautical exploits in a home-made aeroplane , several American inventors were offering much the same aerial excitement to their own countrymen , but with rather more ‘ conventional ’ designs . |
| 17 | MVS is still supreme in IBM 's view and expected to be around through the decade as a leader . |
| 18 | The subtleties of the contest — running off the ball , watching an individual contest between two players rather than following the ball around through the camera lens — may be sacrificed but these failings have not deterred the audience . |
| 19 | ‘ You see it happening all the time , the move around between the carer and the resident as to who is the adult and who is the child . |
| 20 | There is also a section devoted to the polite ways of ‘ playing around between the classes ; you do n't have to be British to know that a great sexual attraction exists between people not like us ’ . |
| 21 | She wheels around off a wall and disappears into the mirage maze of lights . |
| 22 | There was another fellow running about there like us , someone from the guesthall , hefting things around off the altars . |
| 23 | On a Trent Bridge wicket that saw the ball moving around off the seam and in conditions that helped the swing bowlers , Botham won the toss and batted . |
| 24 | Used to go around as a foursome . |
| 25 | This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines . |
| 26 | ‘ I still feel someone either witnessed the assault and was too frightened to come forward or recognised the man hanging around as a friend or relative . ’ |
| 27 | The Old Gang Smelting Mills reminded me of an old deserted coal pit I played around as a child . |
| 28 | He breathed the air deeply , hauling it into his broad chest as if this particular air on this exact spot could be stored up and carried around as a reserve and reminder : for minutes on end he stood there , resisting any move which would lift the spell , gazing into the hidden valley as if in there lay the treasure he wanted . |
| 29 | Being late will count against you far less if no one has been kept waiting around as a result . |
| 30 | Looks as if Lotus Development Corp is being shopped around as a merger partner : according to the Wall Street Journal , Borland International Inc 's Philippe Kahn discussed a possible merger with Lotus 's Jim Manzi last month , although the talks were inconclusive , and elsewhere Manzi was seen to have been in deep discussions over dinner with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Scott McNealy ; Lotus of course tried and failed to merge with Novell Inc . |