Example sentences of "around the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlikely though it may seem , as I wandered miserably in the snow in a duffle coat , puffing my pipe , around the cobblestones and concrete of Wilhelmshaven , I was still , in naval terms , serving aboard a ship , HMS Royal Rupert to be precise . |
| 2 | The Carrion swoop around the adventurers , but make no attempt to carry anyone off . |
| 3 | The pupae will be drifting around the adventurers by this time , so a swing with a weapon will automatically be an attack against D2 of them ( the pupa is hit if the character fails a WS test ) . |
| 4 | It is wrong that people should be able to abuse the social security contribution system , and I hope that Ministers will keep a close eye on the matter because the smart people who offer advice may be looking for further ways of getting around the regulations . |
| 5 | The saturated planks are autoclaved under pressure ; as their internal water boils to compressed steam , the resin is deposited around the fibres of the wood . |
| 6 | There was still over an hour to go before his rendezvous with Rose and he decided to walk around the jewellers ' shops to find something he could afford . |
| 7 | Noteworthy design features of the Swearingen SJ30 include a tiny , highly swept wing with powerful high-lift devices , small-diameter cabin and marked area-ruling around the engines , giving a max cruise of 0.77 Mach despite its low power — its Williams/R-R fanjets have little more than half the thrust of a Lear 31A 's engines . |
| 8 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 9 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 10 | There are no safe spaces around the flats , no fences or shrubs , sheds or seats , to shelter bikes , prams , washing , last year 's bulbs , or children . |
| 11 | Erm moving on a bit now , er er I mean , which crimes do you figure do you think figure most prominently around the fl in and around the flats ? |
| 12 | Mm right now , now you mention that you phoned the police about when you had your purse stolen , erm are y have , what do you think of the police presence around the flats ? |
| 13 | The car plunged into the chaos of Trafalgar Square , taxis honking , buses spewing out black clouds of exhaust , pigeons swirling in indolent flocks around the monuments . |
| 14 | He had guided her expertly around the monuments of Greece and Italy , the summer after the baby . |
| 15 | In the early 1950s an English visitor to Russia observed that beggars were still to be found around the terminals of Moscow , ‘ often young men with one or more limbs missing ’ . |
| 16 | Instead there were Kinks in it where the rods joined it , and the ends of the rods were attached to collars which were secured around the kinks . |
| 17 | Mats of prostrate herbs , like variegated thymes and marjorams , can be used to break up expanses of soil , or you could plant an overall ground cover of bugle , saxifrage , heather or ivy , provided room is left around the roses for annual mulches and access for pruning or cutting . |
| 18 | Since the production of more goods and services is never an end in itself under capitalism but always a means to making profit , any attempt at an explanation of the boom must centre around the returns capitalists received on their outlays . |
| 19 | He was , he said , one of that small group of political eccentrics who browsed around the dustbins of policy hoping occasionally to come across the word ‘ science ’ : |
| 20 | Over the years , texts and commentaries have grown up around the hexagrams . |
| 21 | Unenthusiastically , the men shone their torches around the couplings and flexible connections , but each and everyone of them was aware of the overpowering feeling of evil . |
| 22 | So bringing the thing in , hello darling , and erm , he was just literally he was rushing around the weeds trying |
| 23 | Among the groups in Essex who carried on the tradition yesterday were members of the Great Tey Footpath Preservation Society and villagers from neighbouring Chappel , who teamed up for a 14-mile walk around the boundaries of the two parishes . |
| 24 | Elective 8 : normally SYMAP leaves a gap around the boundaries of each country . |
| 25 | The other thing I ask of you is to do some initial reading around the lectures . |
| 26 | If the mid-nineteenth-century witnessed the increasingly polarized representations of women around the definitions of asexual purity/immorality , these oppositions also had a profound impact on class-specific forms of male sexuality . |
| 27 | There , or rusting around the bones of the dead . |
| 28 | His fingers were like a circle of steel around the bones of her wrist as he began moving again . |
| 29 | Erm the idea then is to , to swap your project quality plans around the groups and then for each , the leader of each group to critique those plans , just briefly , a few minutes er and present that to the erm t to the group . |
| 30 | There is quite a lot of skill in moving quickly around the documents you create . |