Example sentences of "around for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er , they sent her er bouquet and a card for her birthday , she was seventy , and she wrote a letter back and she passed it around for every body to read , and there was , in her writing , which was very clear |
| 2 | Shopping around for a top-up will allow the best price while still keeping the cutlery service in the same style . |
| 3 | Only after his ageing parents had died and he was left to manage the dining rooms did he begin to look around for a wife , and Fred smiled bitterly at the memory . |
| 4 | the idea of making a boat like this has been around for a lkong time . |
| 5 | When first envisaged , then , the lectures were not seen as the core of a forthcoming book , even though ( with their Wagnerian connection ) they bore on his current preoccupation — and even though he was currently casting around for a subject for a book . |
| 6 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 7 | With IBM Corp 's stock in the cellar and as hopes dim it will ever again return as the flagship of the US stock market , The New York Times last Sunday 20th was searching around for a successor and came up with — you guessed it — Microsoft Corp . |
| 8 | The 46-year-old Exeter manager was drafted in for last month 's win over France at Wembley as the England manager cast around for a successor to the disgraced Steve Harrison . |
| 9 | As the mandroids calmly gassed the beaked exter and carted them both off to be flung into the street , I slid on to one of the unstained seats at the table and cheerfully looked around for a servaton . |
| 10 | I dawdled around for a while and then headed south . |
| 11 | Then I wandered around for a while , casting wistful glances at my tables . |
| 12 | Lowe ball-nuts have been around for a while and they are one of the best devices of this sort that I have used so far . |
| 13 | Stewart stayed with him for about an hour and a half and Lamb hung around for a while , but Smith was his main ally and , as the day ebbed away , it seemed as though only the new ball stood between England and a draw . |
| 14 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 15 | I wandered around for a while , in a bit of a daze , and then strolled back here . |
| 16 | Electronics is a universal tool that has been around for a while and which can be used to control electrical circuits — not a common art form . |
| 17 | They kept us hanging around for a while . |
| 18 | I sat around for a while , talking to people . |
| 19 | How come the Europeans accept musicians who 've been around for a while , but we British just pour scorn on them as has-beens ? |
| 20 | 3D spreadsheets have been around for a while , but have tended to be rather cumbersome to use . |
| 21 | KNOCKING AROUND for a while now . |
| 22 | Having escaped from their field , two goats wandered around for a while until they found themselves in a rubbish dump . |
| 23 | ORIGINALLY ON the German Rough Mix label and now sensibly picked up by Sheffield 's Warp label , this one 's been around for a while now and has been described as potentially the next Gat Decor . |
| 24 | Others tell us Apple 's Enterprise people have been shopping the thing around for a while apparently to further insinuate the Mac into the corporate environment . |
| 25 | These treatments kill off the tiny worms in the large intestine but because the eggs may still be around for a while , everyone must be scrupulous about scrubbing their nails and ultra-hygienic when handling food . |
| 26 | Alice loitered around for a while , and no one came in or out , and she could not see Comrade Andrew through the downstairs windows , for the curtains were drawn . |
| 27 | Have n't seen you around for a while . ’ |
| 28 | The current version is 9.0 version 99 , so it 's been around for a while ! |
| 29 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 30 | I hung around for a while … now I come to think of it , I walked a short way along the path , looking for him . ’ |