Example sentences of "around this " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had no wish to discuss Lucy around this stranger . |
| 2 | Built around this album , The The at the Town & Country provided as near perfect a late-Eighties rock show as anyone could want . |
| 3 | But Lord Aldington insisted : ‘ I most definitely saw him on May 25 and I remember having dinner with him on two successive nights around this time . |
| 4 | Look at all these blasphemous bastards that are still walking around this orchard . ’ |
| 5 | he served with the Irish Guards before he volunteered for the Commandos , and you can be sure that he will have you playing that tune as often as possible , as long as you do n't play it around this H.Q , I do n't mind . ’ |
| 6 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 7 | A crisis of confidence among Britain 's producers was the result of this sort of taunting , and from around this time one begins to detect in the press a sense that the nation 's honour was threatened by its film industry 's parlous condition . |
| 8 | Hitchcock was triumphantly able to achieve this sort of synthesis , but it is not surprising that Woolf was suspicious of the highbrow values that were being propagated around this time , and decided to challenge their deployment on this film . |
| 9 | ‘ Great Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role ’ taunted Dean Acheson , the American Secretary of State , around this time . |
| 10 | There may be ways around this , at least in part , as Jon Saunders points out . |
| 11 | One way around this problem is tree-cyling . |
| 12 | Ideally your carpets should be the first major purchase in your new home , for it is around this essential item of furnishing that the rest of your interiors should be planned . |
| 13 | Around this time he was a heavy drinker although , as a conscientious professional , he did not let it affect his game . |
| 14 | In other words , if in Jesus Christ I find the answer to the question ‘ Where is he ? ’ then all the transitory questions of life find genuine meaning around this wonderful centre . |
| 15 | ( It is simply not true that all Spanish colonialists were brutal , arrogant exploiters of the indigenous peoples ; there was a great deal of theological questioning and guilt and struggle around this issue , as the lives of such men as Bartolomé de las Casas makes clear . ) |
| 16 | Tractors are caught in the ‘ 100hp dilemma ’ : today 's simple ( often un-turbo-charged ) motors provide outputs around this figure with good driveability and relatively low cost . |
| 17 | AN OUNCE of luck is always welcome in racing and I have to admit that I feel the most fortunate man around this morning having been asked to ride Docklands Express in the Grand National — a race I have never won . |
| 18 | Elsewhere in the District around this time , a gap between the resignation of one full-time officer and the appointment of another provoked distress and urgent resolutions to the District Council . |
| 19 | Could n't anyone have any privacy around this dump ? |
| 20 | ‘ When I think the giant eel is biting on the ball , I 'll quickly tie the rope around this other hook inside the bucket . |
| 21 | This is quite simply the best hotel featured in this brochure , and if you 're a gardener yourself , you 'll find the gardens around this gem of an hotel worthy of the accolade 's ‘ spectacular ’ . |
| 22 | There are numerous crofting townships scattered around this coastal strip , wherever areas of calcareous wind-blown shell-sand , sand dunes , and pasture ( machair ) occur . |
| 23 | Our trip around this part of the city defines a crude triangle , formed by Corso Venezia and Corso di Porta Romana , with Piazza del Duomo as its point . |
| 24 | The combination of corn and fulling mills and dye house is encountered quite often around this period . |
| 25 | A way around this problem is to plan the prospectus so that the information that changes regularly is kept apart from the main body of the text and printed on separate sheets . |
| 26 | It is projected to remain at around this level for more recent generations of women . |
| 27 | Originally Romanesque , like so many houses around this square , but later added to in Gothic and then early Renaissance style at the beginning of the 16C . |
| 28 | After an hour or so of drinking , these two gentlemen decided they wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villages — a motor car around this time still being something of a novelty . |
| 29 | As it happened , my father had around this time come to the end of his distinguished service at Loughborough House with the death of his employer , Mr John Silvers , and had been at something of a loss for work and accommodation . |
| 30 | I can remember one morning around this time bringing Lord Darlington coffee in the breakfast room , and his saying to me as he folded The Times with some disgust : ‘ Frenchmen . |