Example sentences of "[adv] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | In La Route des Flandres , the fluctuations between first and third person mean that it is not possible to contend that the novel 's discourse is organized entirely around the consciousness of the central character Georges , who otherwise seems to be re-creating his experiences in the course of a night in bed with the widow of his commanding officer , some time after the wartime conflict . |
| 2 | More recent changes in female employment , and the increasing ‘ liberation ’ of women from a life centred entirely around the home and the family , will make such an assessment increasingly outdated . |
| 3 | His world of wants revolved entirely around brews , babes , bands and the beach . |
| 4 | For a while it seemed that the whole black music scene had a fixation about penning songs with titles formed entirely around the same noun , Sam Cooke adding to his bank balance via ‘ Baby , Baby , Baby ’ ( 1963 ) while James Brown band singer Anna King and Bobby Byrd provides a classic of the same title during '64 . |
| 5 | Though his first wife remains a shadowy and rather pathetic figure about whom one longs to know more , there is plenty here on the crowded , ramshackle household and its often hand-to-mouth existence constructed entirely around the demands of the workaholic , temperamental sculptor — the hoarded treasures , the art and music which pervaded the house , the much loved but somewhat casually raised children , the constantly changing and eccentric cast of live-in models , nannies , general factotums , portrait sitters , studio visitors , plaster moulders , musicians , friends and members of the press who were usually given short shrift . |
| 6 | They 'd revolved almost entirely around the encounter with the assassin . |
| 7 | Thus , whereas a horseman 's work formerly revolved almost entirely around his horses , his modern counterpart must not only be a tractor driver but a ‘ general farm worker ’ — a mechanic , a labourer and perhaps even a part-time stockman , too . |
| 8 | This may be partly due to the fact that teacher training for further education in the Principality revolves almost entirely around the University of Wales , which also validates all courses for the professional training of teachers , including those for primary and secondary schools . |
| 9 | But she was one of the shyest of all the hijras I met , and one of the most gentle ; her life revolved entirely around the baby she had just adopted . |
| 10 | A malinger round the monument is worth your while , if only for the extraordinary view down Loch Shiel and to reassure yourself that you will soon be leaving behind all the people milling idly around their coaches , to whom 1745 means quarter to six . |
| 11 | The school and the hospital , hard-won gains of the miners , lacked patients and pupils , and a few people stood idly around the union building , former hub of the district . |
| 12 | After travelling halfway around the globe to one of the remotest spots on Earth , encasing oneself in goosedown against the cold , mounting a snowmobile and riding through the vastness , the glimpse of a dark object starts the heart pounding . |
| 13 | How would you feel if someone flew more than halfway around the world to say to you , ‘ I am at a loss . |
| 14 | Halfway around the world , in Utah , Paul Palmer of Brigham Young University was fascinated by helium in the atmosphere . |
| 15 | He eventually fell , seven short of a century , ‘ gated ’ by the offspinner after being stuck fast for 25 minutes , but Dermot Reeve , in his first Test , and watched by his mother Monica , who had flown halfway around the world to see him play , and Lewis , who unfurled drives and cuts of genuine quality , ensured progress was maintained as the weather closed in . |
| 16 | Mrs García 's perfect reception of a press briefing taking place halfway around the world is testament to the long reach of Televisa 's ECO network . |
| 17 | The track curved sharply , taking his car halfway around the ship before it slowed and stopped . |
| 18 | Bush repeated on Oct. 24 the comparison of Iraqi President Saddam Hussain with Hitler and denounced the " rape of Kuwait " and Iraqi " crimes against humanity " , while at a rally on Oct. 30 ( campaigning in support of Republicans in the mid-term congressional elections on Nov. 6 ) he gave warnings of the possibility of a US military offensive , urging the US public to " stay together in support of our kids halfway around the world " . |
| 19 | She wanted to suggest that he might be very happy having his vacation in hell , but decided that anywhere halfway around the world would do ! |
| 20 | Unsettled at having come halfway around the world to find herself in the same town at the same time as Vitor d'Arcos , she had skipped over any articles which mentioned him , but , on turning a page , had found an article which she could not ignore . |
| 21 | As the public celebrated the Prince 's fortune , the shades of the prison-house closed inexorably around Diana . |
| 22 | ‘ Bricks ’ , their first LP for Slash with its surprise hit ‘ Pretend We 're Dead ’ , acts as a foundation stone for tonight 's set , with older , dirtier material fitting nicely around it . |
| 23 | Oesophageal manometry was performed using a catheter containing five solid state transducers located at 5 cm intervals along its length and oriented radially around the circumference of the catheter ( Gaeltec Ltd , UK ) . |
| 24 | More and more gliders were being produced all the time and it was quite impracticable to house them all in hangars , so they stood endlessly around the edges of airfields in the rain , waiting for an invasion which might come this year or might come next . |
| 25 | Remember that Dickens was writing before Freud had begun to uncover the immense complexity of the human personality , before William James 's pioneering work on consciousness , which showed that our conscious mind is not solid but that it runs like a stream , swirling endlessly around symbols , associations from the past ; always moving , never at rest . |
| 26 | Throughout his work he circled endlessly around the question of what it is to be a Christian , to have faith , to encounter God . |
| 27 | The annexe has few refectory facilities , and on some days it seems that the queue for the coffee machine snakes endlessly around the corridors . |
| 28 | Anyway , on the first day of that summer term , I remember sitting alone in the cafeteria , slowly drinking my cup of coffee , and listening as all around me people welcomed each other back from their holidays . |
| 29 | All around me there were young couples , arm in arm , doing the same . |
| 30 | All around me there were cinemas . |