Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [adv] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recoil punched hard and ejected shell casings angrily around the nose compartment , some clattered into the rear of the instrument panel and blew its circuits . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's a practice area just around the corner and the starter will call you to the tee five minutes before you are due to tee off , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The shocked people of Warrington paid their respects , and stood , some weeping , in silent tribute as the cortege dove slowly around the town , a tiny coffin in front . |
| 4 | Paramount closed down its London office in 1968 , declaring that ‘ we now feel that by coordinating and controlling our production activities in Hollywood we can effectively control a programme that will continue to draw from a talent pool all around the world . ’ |
| 5 | As we have advised before , allow for the hems and , especially in the case of a Rokkaku , for reinforcement with a cotton tape all around the sail . |
| 6 | The annexe has few refectory facilities , and on some days it seems that the queue for the coffee machine snakes endlessly around the corridors . |
| 7 | The issue centres mainly around the question of power . |
| 8 | Naturally neither the NSA nor GCHQ will discuss the subject since such telephone tapping is illegal but in 1976 the NSA 's Harvest computer system intercepted 75 million individual telephone conversations alone around the world , of which 1.8 million were considered sufficiently interesting to require further human analysis , although what happened to the information the NSA had collected and how it was shared and used remains a mystery . |
| 9 | Most of the product will be exported to Caterpillar plants all around the world . ’ |
| 10 | This theme centres mainly around the difficulties Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy have to overcome before eventually they get married . |
| 11 | While this is less common now you can fit phone sockets all around the house , the hall still provides a useful central place for a phone , and if you decide on this option , you will need a chair , table and space for directories . |
| 12 | Mary Higgins Clark All around the Town ( Arrow ) |
| 13 | Removing the wrapping he began pressing the plastic explosive tightly around the rivet line . |
| 14 | It could just as well have been the 20th birthday of the Eden Gardens tea urn , and as far as the Indian government is concerned , there is nothing like an international cricket tournament for persuading the electorate that , with polling day just around the corner , Rajiv is the boy to vote for . |
| 15 | Yet it is easy for pioneer users and IT investors to remain with the tried and tested applications and miss out on the cutting edge opportunities just around the corner . |
| 16 | Britain is likely to suffer a major loss of land along the east coast especially around the Wash and Thames estuaries and the Norfolk Broads , while coastal protection works such as the ♯500 million River Thames barrier protecting London would have to be raised . |
| 17 | Normal observers find symmetry judgements harder around the horizontal than vertical . |
| 18 | It was a great advertisement for Test cricket , with the instant variety of the World Cup just around the corner . |
| 19 | From the polytechnic , the court was told , Bedworth had been able to hack into computer systems all around the world using his microcomputer — a type found in many schools — as a master terminal . |
| 20 | They would be based in Union Quay barracks just around the corner ; that would be their home . |
| 21 | Leave a ¼″ gap all around the top when attaching the board — an 18″ × 72″ × 18″ piece of ¼″ plywood fits into this . |
| 22 | There was a generator blowing bubble holos all around the room , snatches of old movies , adverts , random faces , alien landscapes . |
| 23 | When she 'd called him , she 'd been no closer to Vine Street than the corridor pay phone just around the corner . |
| 24 | It may be seen that for a low value of b/a the surface-charge density changes considerably around the circumference of the cylinder . |
| 25 | STEPHENSON sent steam locomotives all around the world , but sadly out in India today there are none in service . |
| 26 | To help investigate gill net use and bird deaths elsewhere around the coast , the Society has set up a confidential phone line . |
| 27 | Ben was standing several paces from his father , looking back up the grassy slope to where they had set up arc lamps all around the cottage . |
| 28 | So far neither are demonstrating much recognition of their respective energy apocalypses just around the corner . |