Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] around [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The restoration also involved removal around the damage of old repaint which obscured some of the thumb prints which , uniquely in Poussin 's work , texture the whole picture surface .
2 Police , local authorities , schools and crime prevention teams are all involved in tackling crime around the workplace , and business should play a part in this effort .
3 At 27 years old , and having won 52 international caps , ‘ Jacki ’ had earned recognition around the world and , more importantly , the permission of the Polish authorities to move abroad .
4 Here , while he waited to embark the Susannah Anne bound for Hobart , he met with the offices from HMS Beagle , then on its third surveying voyage around the world under Commander John C. Wickham .
5 EXETER 's meeting tomorrow offers the main hope of a resumption to jumps racing as freezing conditions continue to cause havoc around the country .
6 Gina paused to pass her approving gaze around the rest of the room .
7 Between 10 and 16 live whales were seen milling around the mouth of the Nene at 8.30 that morning ; low water was at midday , and at about 5 that afternoon the pod was seen swimming off to the north on the rising tide .
8 The program can be operated , in the main , with a mouse which speeds movement around the screen .
9 Our salesmen are still selling hotelware around the world .
10 In the same way that the human body , for instance , is an integrated whole whose individual parts serve particular ‘ needs ’ of the system ( for example , the heart performs the function of pumping blood around the body , the bowel functions to collect and evacuate solid-waste products , and so on ) , so society comprises a system of interdependent institutions each with a contribution to make to the overall stability and continuity of the whole .
11 Beside the ruin , the grass had been scythed to rough ankle-length around a handful of old gravestones and an incon-gruously clean slab of veined grey marble that lay glinting in the sun .
12 Continue on tracks heading east around the bottom of the tarn and after around ⅓ of a mile turn right and head south .
13 We missed Wallaces speed and Speeds heading ability around the area .
14 Firstly the hole , if wet , was dried out with a swabbing stick and wadding and the charge was then poured in , care being taken to avoid spillage around the mouth of the hole .
15 At least you know that 's true , that it is just a job , not the glamorous lifestyle that it appears to be , entailing flying around the world in private jets .
16 This , I trust , has no connection with the fecal matter we are used to seeing hanging around the back end of a sheep , but instead refers to the fact they spend most of their weekends dangling from a rope .
17 I met King around the time of Running In The Family , the follow-up to the all-conquering World Machine .
18 ( Mark the drill with chalk or wrap tape around the shank to indicate when the correct depth is reached . )
19 then he comes home , that 's what he likes to do potter around the house , well I do n't want to potter around the house when I 've been stuck in for twelve months .
20 This usually takes place around the end of the fortieth week — 280 days — although in this as in so many aspects of sex and reproduction there is considerable variability .
21 Although just over half of a sample of teenage mothers in 1979 — 80 had had some kind of family planning lesson at school , only a quarter had attempted to use contraception around the time they conceived .
22 call for greater enforcement of the CITES treaty around the world .
23 An immaturity in the oral musculature which affects the child 's co-ordination in chewing , moving food around the mouth , and swallowing can cause a delay in the acceptance of solids .
24 However , the proportions in which elements are produced in the big bang depend on the number of types of neutrino ( the neutrinos play a role in moving energy around the fireball ) .
25 Police determination to control the volume and the effect of picketing made movement around the country and demonstrations at collieries extremely difficult ; ‘ much secondary picketing was prevented from taking place , effectively or at all , by police action rather than the intervention of the civil courts , and it is this factor that is at the heart of complaints that the police broke the strike , or were used to break it ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 148 ) .
26 Thomas Cook 's foreign exchange businesses also did well last year , with small businesses using the company to send money around the world as well as the traditional travel cash and travellers cheques operations .
27 To take an example , suppose two mothers regularly go for coffee in each other 's homes and take along their respective toddlers , and that one parent gets quite distressed at the children running riot around the house whilst the other is seemingly oblivious .
28 Now what to you want to know who recorded Rock Around the Clock first where 's Jerry Lee Lewis is tonight ?
29 I grabbed Tiger around the waist , my chin against his chest .
30 The worst ozone destruction should take place around the turn of the century , as the chemicals rise into the stratosphere , followed by a gradual recovery in the ozone layer over the next 50-100 years .
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