Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dying ripples of its massive tidal wave lapped up the English Channel , and the volcanic debris , wreathing the planet , altered weather and harvest patterns around the world for years afterwards . |
| 2 | The main honest job I had during my teens was as a drummer for a piano player who worked various bars and dance halls around the Zona Negra . |
| 3 | He also saw the need to rewrite roles around the talents of the actors , as he did for Crawford , but there were limits to what he could do to make the most of the story for the cinema . |
| 4 | The Cornish giants were reputed to be a stupid and murderous bunch , fond of hurling boulders around the countryside . |
| 5 | Britain is pressing the UN to rotate troops to ease the burden on individual countries and make it easier for nations to offer forces for the growing number of peacekeeping duties around the world . |
| 6 | Then , arranging the largest red roses at equally spaced intervals around the circle , I balanced them with the large single pink roses — it is always important to introduce both light and shade into a design , otherwise it can look very dull . |
| 7 | The programme experimented with a variety of formats and timings to find ways around the constraints on staff time . |
| 8 | So far , we have only considered circles around the pilot . |
| 9 | At the same time the body develops ways around the scarring to maintain blood supply ‘ growing ’ little extra blood vessels into the gut and stomach wall . |
| 10 | On April 15 The Artist and Leisure Painter magazines have organised tours around the RI annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries . |
| 11 | There is actually there is actually walking tours around the city for those people who wish to opt for |
| 12 | The largest rookery in Oxfordshire dominates a high security storage area , and owls are moving into nesting boxes around the sight . |
| 13 | She pushed a cigarette between her dry lips then fumbled in her coat pocket for a lighter and , cupping her trembling fingers around the flame , lit it and inhaled deeply . |
| 14 | These stones are the bread and butter of the manufacturing and retailing jewellers around the world , changing hands in packages of several hundred at a time without certification . |
| 15 | This is , presumably , why Lockheed found it necessary to ensure that it was granted contracts around the world by offering financial inducements to decision-makers in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 16 | The tie lasted 94 minutes but the result , which will send shockwaves around the tennis circuit , will also raise doubts about Navratilova 's Grand Slam pretensions . |
| 17 | Adult weevils particularly like camellias and rhododendrons , nibbling notches around the edges of leaves . |
| 18 | When Tom Wilmot at Harvard told dealers around the time of Big Bang : " You should all understand thoroughly what 's going on . |
| 19 | She was not quite tall enough to reach things around the kitchen , but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted . |
| 20 | I applaud the decision of my local council to install cameras around the centre . |
| 21 | Their deaths prompted Betty Williams and Anne 's sister Mairead Corrigan to begin a campaign for peace — a campaign capturing headlines around the world , a campaign that drew upwards of 3 , people to mass rallies and marches in Belfast . |
| 22 | POLICE have told jewellers around the Province to be on the alert after a man and a woman stole jewellery from a shop in Magherafelt . |
| 23 | Co-operation by the UK Civil Aviation Authority has been excellent and MiG operators around the world are lending a hand with their experiences . |
| 24 | Many of them wear slippers around the house , and if they tend to shuffle a little as their joints stiffen , rugs become dangerous obstacles to their safe movement from room to room . |
| 25 | Her father recounted his latest golf tournament , Guy talked to Charles about sailing , then opened up the conversation by introducing a surprisingly shrewd appreciation of the arts into the debate , when it became clear that in addition to racing yachts around the Isle of Wight he made frequent visits to see the RSC at the Barbican , and was something of an expert on modern ballet . |
| 26 | Helped by local artist Sian Parry , they have been using their artistic talents to brighten hoardings around the site of Llandudno 's £4m arts , leisure and convention centre complex , with paintings inspired by the sea , fairy tales and the story of Alice in Wonderland . |
| 27 | He 'll be measuring things around the office . |
| 28 | S so I mean do you try and u do you use things around the area ? |
| 29 | Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein , who 's passion and flamboyance ignited audiences around the world for decades , has died in New York at the age of seventy two . |
| 30 | Drawing a map of his people 's lands , he then hammered stakes around the Wallowa — creating a boundary that settlers called Old Joseph 's Deadline — and made his declaration to his people , but also to his son : |