Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun pl] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even so , the time has arrived when the practice of rotating the Games around the world must be sternly challenged . |
| 2 | Lear showed the sheen of strong flight-feathers , as well as the soft down of the breast ; he made the feathers around the neck look ruffled by the wind , and characterised the unique texture of feathers on the feet . |
| 3 | Lay the envelopes around the base of the postbox . |
| 4 | Or are we just creatures of our time , trapped by our failure to see the solutions around the corner of our life-span ? |
| 5 | Dusk was drifting in over the park , covering the snow in gritty grey shadows , bringing the houses around the park alight almost simultaneously . |
| 6 | All the forces of Chaos were brought to bear , and the mightiest sorcerers of the Chaos army set to work to breach the spell-walls around the island . |
| 7 | The world summit for children which took place at the weekend caught the headlines around the world and the world 's leaders put their heads together and agreed that children all round the world are suffering and something must be done about it . |
| 8 | He found the stews around the riverside as busy as an overturned ant heap in summer as boatmen , sailors and fishermen flocked down to the river bank to watch the ice thaw . |
| 9 | Place the vegetables around the hutch . |
| 10 | SCHOOLS around Petersfield have been invited to contribute to a mural competition to decorate the panels around the Tilmore Walk scheme . |
| 11 | I drove the girls around the suburbs until we found a newsagent big enough to sell maps and stuffed behind a wad of yellowing unfunny birthday cards , I found an Ordnance Survey map of the Blackberry Hill region . |
| 12 | The Halflings have lived in rural areas of the Empire for as long as anyone can remember , but it was not until the year 1010 that they were granted the lands around the upper Aver as their permanent home . |
| 13 | A man inspecting the crosses around the regimental emblems outside Westminster Abbey lived in the East End during the Blitz . |
| 14 | ‘ We depend on Unprofor for oil supplies to fuel the generators around the city , but they only give small amounts and are refusing to give us newsprint . ’ |
| 15 | I therefore introduced the refinement of bending the infant whisker , by troubling the waters around the moment of its birth , and then simply allowing it to thicken until it broke , this was a little less clumsy but still highly unsatisfactory . |
| 16 | Two of these are astrocytes , which are supporting cells occupying the spaces around the nerve cells ; the third kind are oligodendrocytes which wrap closely around the nerve , providing an insulating layer which speeds conduction of the nerve impulse . |
| 17 | In mosaic B , buds ( probably four in number ) fill the spandrels around the central medallion . |
| 18 | The government is proposing to extend the areas around the Shetland Islands from which loaded oil tankers are banned . |
| 19 | Lord Byron had imagined the souls of dead Highland heroes riding the gales around the mountain 's rocky heights . |
| 20 | By moving the feet around the board try and get your wake to be as quiet as possible and watch how it differs as you move your weight around . |
| 21 | A few years later , however , the distant future showed every indication of having already arrived when these nagging anxieties grabbed the headlines around the large numbers of recruits who had been found unfit for service in the Boer War , and in spite of the half-hearted reassurances of the Physical Deterioration Committee of 1904 fears of racial deterioration were rampant . |
| 22 | Every one of the scores of abandoned Trabants and Wartburgs which clog the streets around the embassy has been one of the most cherished possessions in its owner 's life . |
| 23 | He could not hear the mumblers around the Cabinet table . |
| 24 | During the re-entry and completion of BA-1 a large amount of brine was pumped into the well , carrying fines with it and plugging the pores around the well bore . |
| 25 | Fishing eagles either use the trees around the lake edge as lookout points or soar high above the lake watching for the tell-tale dorsal fin of a basking tilapia to break the surface . |
| 26 | The couple were unaware they had hit the headlines around the world after leaving Nicole , nine , and four-year-old Diana alone while they enjoyed a nine-day Mexican holiday in Acapulco . |
| 27 | A contributory factor in their campaigns to secure charters was that the peasants who grew the vines around the outskirts of the town found arbitrary and unpredictable seigneurial exactions an intolerable burden on a form of agriculture for which long-term planning was essential . |
| 28 | Finally dot the flowers around the arrangement , pushing the short stems into the foam . |
| 29 | The 1st Chaldon Pack , Surrey cleared the paths around the local council park and the 1st Lawford Pack , Essex picked up four large sacks full of rubbish from a local footpath . |
| 30 | Either they decide to give up skiing altogether , or they undertake to develop the muscles around the knee ( the quadriceps and hamstrings ) in order to supplement the weakened ligaments , and — with the advice of a doctor or physiotherapist — ski with a brace or support . |