Example sentences of "[noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | last time there was some tea around available . |
| 2 | A woman came out of her house and apparently poured a pot of tea around the base of a bush . |
| 3 | Western press reports noted a rise in banditry around the refugee camps on the Thai border , leading to an indefinite suspension of UN aid shipments from Thailand into Cambodia from Sept. 21 . |
| 4 | Upstairs , she put a shawl around Agnes , saying , ‘ There you are , dear . |
| 5 | She drew a shawl around her shoulders . |
| 6 | Hari shivered a little as she drew on her underclothes , then her thick skirt and bodice , lastly pulling the welcoming warmth of the shawl around her slim shoulders . |
| 7 | She was still wearing the thin cotton dress that she 'd worn in the prison hospital , but now there was a shawl around her shoulders as well . |
| 8 | Rachel sounds as if she 'll be sitting with a shawl around her shoulders when she 's 60 . |
| 9 | She threw back the covers , slipped a light shawl around her shoulders above her coarse calico nightgown , thrust her bare feet into her felt slippers , and crossed the room , avoiding the small oak bureau by the door , which she opened cautiously . |
| 10 | Dr Neil registered how withdrawn she was , and once they were back home hot , sugary tea was poured down her in a constant stream , and then , despite the warmth of the day , Matey put a shawl around her shoulders and made her sit near the fire . |
| 11 | She pulled her shawl around her and said : ‘ It has gone far enough . |
| 12 | The woman sniffed back her tears , and drew the shawl around her body , which was heavy and useful like a sack of potatoes . |
| 13 | She threw her shawl around her shoulders and hurried from the house . |
| 14 | Building a seat around a tree . |
| 15 | Having spent much of the glorious summer last year sitting in the shade of the apple tree I decided that if such summers were to continue it would be a good idea to build a permanent seat around the tree . |
| 16 | The other occupants of the room gradually moved across to the table , each of them taking a seat around it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There was an instant chorus of recognition around the ( all-female ) table . |
| 19 | His body bore no sign of violence except for a weal around his neck . |
| 20 | In this circuit ( figure ) , the data input controls gate IC ID establishing positive or negative feedback around the oscillator formed by IC IA IC IB and IC IC . |
| 21 | The 10-feet high palings , with their broad central gates and twin gas lamps , may not be as imposing as the metal fence around Buckingham Palace , but they do , in their modest way , suggest a sense of grandeur appropriate to a leader who has held office for 10 years . |
| 22 | ‘ In his letter of July 6 following the meeting , the BAe chairman , Professor Roland Smith , called for the removal of the ring fence around Rover capital allowances , capital losses , and trading losses , and asked the DTI to intervene with the Inland Revenue for ‘ written rulings in advance to certain proposals to be made by BAe with a view to optimising the tax benefits ’ , ’ Mr Brown said . |
| 23 | An even larger protest was held the following year when 10,000 people gathered , many of them climbing a staircase of straw bales built over the ten-foot high barbed wire fence around the site . |
| 24 | Stop Hinkley supporters immediately scaled the fence around the large , green field where the new power station was due to rise — and ceremonially burned a domed model of a Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 25 | That night the main gate of the dump was destroyed , the chain link fence around it torn down and the concrete posts lining the entrance to the dump smashed . |
| 26 | But in the end the resident was only allowed to inspect the security of the chain link fence around the dump . |
| 27 | As is so often the case , these gates have been made by someone who has obviously no experience of walking , because they are impossible to negotiate with a rucksack on , unless you climb onto the bottom bars of the fence around the gate to lift the sack above the top rail . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the town council is divided on whether to make the cathedral less accessible to desperate men by placing a fence around it and thus lose a centuries-old tradition . |
| 29 | There was also a new fence around H area , all a part of the new security drive . |
| 30 | But it used to be different then … there was n't no atmosphere like there is now and there were n't no fence around the London Road like now … |