Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken put it on top of the locker , where it staggered around the perimeter mewing and testing space with its paw . |
| 2 | Her tea was getting a vigorous stirring , so that it swirled around the cup . |
| 3 | ‘ After that , totally by chance , I was asked to go on the road with Mike and the Mechanics and it fitted around the 1989 work I was doing with the Floyd . |
| 4 | That 's right , if the sho if the top part of the shoe went that was the only you got a new pair or if or if it burst around the sole and the seam . |
| 5 | Barnett remembered the heat in the blood as it welled around the hilt of the knife and onto his hand . |
| 6 | At this period the production of gold coinage was closely associated with the presence of the imperial court , and as it moved around the empire so did some of the dies for making gold coins . |
| 7 | The stuff relinquished its grip upon him readily enough , drifting away to join the main mass of the stuff as it clustered around the end of the Bridge , where some kind of subtle activity seemed to be taking place . |
| 8 | The abbreviation as it travelled around the dot board , sounded as if someone were reading a map accordion-folded between Africa and India . |