Example sentences of "was around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another person who was around the scene at the time was Chrissie Hynde who , after Malcolm 's shop and writing for the NME , had really been scuffling around . |
| 2 | The rise in unemployment frustrated the government 's spending plans , because of the rising costs of social security ; it also undermined the credibility of the government 's claims that its economic strategy was working and that economic recovery was around the corner . |
| 3 | The return of socialism would be the ‘ road to nowhere , a dead end ’ at a time when economic recovery was around the corner . |
| 4 | The man hurried on , throwing the leaflet in a waste-paper bin as soon as he was around the corner by the newspaper stand . |
| 5 | It was around this point , in the midst of dealing with the many demands being made on my attention , that I happened to glance out of a window and spotted the figure of the young Mr Cardinal taking some fresh air around the grounds . |
| 6 | It was around this point — and I have no idea if he had planned to do so beforehand — that his lordship began to reminisce about his late friend , Herr Karl-Heinz Bremann . |
| 7 | It was around Lake Baikal that the woman in pink had been able to share in her daughter 's delight with the journey . |
| 8 | Added salt in the wound is that one of the books in the list that follows is taken from the collection which was around Gladstone as he spoke , and that another is one actually given to a library by his trustees . |
| 9 | It was around these two precocious strikers that Torino intended to reclaim their rightful crown as the city 's top club . |
| 10 | T. B. In those days , a bobby was a good catch for a woman — in a regular job and a good wage — average working man 's wage was around a pound to thirty shillings . |
| 11 | At that time the animal population of the country was around 1 ½ million horses , five million cattle , four million pigs , 30 million sheep and two million dogs . |
| 12 | Then the American announcer said , ‘ The bronze medal , Linford Christie , Great Britain , ’ and I was up on the plinth , the medal was around my neck and the Union Jacks were waving . |
| 13 | Edward ignored her protest , somehow contorting himself so that he could kiss her breasts , bare now , since her bra was around her waist , and still keep his hand between her legs beneath the rucked-up skirt . |
| 14 | It was a sound they knew , one often heard at night from within the dark walls of the cottages in the village , but out here it was around them and with them and part of them and it had an eerie quality as though inside the vixen some diabolic spirit was entrapped , a demon screeching its despair . |
| 15 | He did n't change his clothes too often , and when he did he just picked up whatever was around him — Eva 's jumpers , Dad 's waistcoats , and always my shirts , which he borrowed and I never saw again . |
| 16 | Dr Margaret Ashwell told the conference that the worst form of middle-age spread was around the middle as the traditional beer-belly shape meant more fat was concentrated where it does most harm — around the internal organs . |
| 17 | And it was around the locality that loyalty was built . |
| 18 | Any involvement in the race issue was around the anti-Fascist campaigns of that time . |
| 19 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |
| 20 | The Macedonian government was able to press its claim for recognition , which had been blocked by Greece , by threatening that war was around the corner . |
| 21 | IBM is very touchy on the issue of morale : last week in New York when we got around to asking Bill Filip what the mood was around the joint , the spin doctors converged and shuffled him off . |
| 22 | It was formed by a number of volcanic eruptions , the last of which was around the 18th century BC , and its hot-headed volcanic formations warm the local waters to delicious bathing temperatures . |
| 23 | Poldhu Cove was around the next corner . |
| 24 | All there was around her was endless waves of ruby and ice with the fog crawling beneath her feet . |
| 25 | The key was around his neck on a piece of string . |
| 26 | Armies chose these banks as suitable places for crossing the Rhine , and a particularly eventful time was around the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the next . |
| 27 | The generator itself was around the back of the reception block , protected from interference or vandalism by a welded metal walk-in cage inside a lean-to shed . |
| 28 | The level of expenditure on military equipment and personnel in the inter-war years was around 1 per cent of GDP in both the United States and Britain . |
| 29 | I then saw that her arm was around his waist as well . |
| 30 | A mother of twelve , just had another still-born , stifled by the caul , he came out feet first and upside down facing up , the cord was around his neck , marks of sinfulness , twelve children with how many men ? |