Example sentences of "around the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of people fell around the place laughing when they heard about the middle-aged poet bit , ’ he says . |
| 3 | Here we were in a restaurant where books on croquet lay scattered around the place . |
| 4 | McLeish reflected uncomfortably that he would have to be very circumspect in his dealings with Catherine , with this beady-eyed observer around the place . |
| 5 | The Palestinians are blamed , plus any Iraqi soldiers who may still be lurking around the place . |
| 6 | Anything you need doing around the place . |
| 7 | We played at Caxton House Youth Club in Archway and various blues parties around the place . |
| 8 | Good lecterns today also have space for microphone wiring built into them so that you do n't have wire trailing around the place and looking unsightly , or a big boom mike stand in front . |
| 9 | We have been given to understand that our forest of Chippenham around the place called ‘ Holloway ’ is so dense that malefactors are able to lie hid in those parts , and so travellers are threatened with frequent losses , and some incur peril of lives and goods there . |
| 10 | I 'd much rather see a bright young woman around the place , than some of the desiccated fuddy-duddy men we meet . ’ |
| 11 | gesturing around the place |
| 12 | Two days he was hanging around the place . |
| 13 | Again I felt so relieved to be ‘ in care , ’ and to enjoy the great comfort of a room with two beds and unlimited baths , and a nurse or two around the place to check on my progress . |
| 14 | I went around the place and the units to find out where everything was . |
| 15 | We had a spinning wheel at Low Birk Hatt — it may be still around the place somewhere — and the whole family would spin the raw wool and then knit it into stockings , gloves , jumpers and skirts . |
| 16 | Not a battleaxe exactly but I hear she used to stomp around the place in clogs and speak her mind without fear or hesitation . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's sweet , Changez , it 's true , the way he grunts with satisfaction as he reads , and bumbles around the place asking me if I want some keema . |
| 18 | If the fuzz shows up , or the SAS , if there 's any movement around the place at all , we 'll spot it and pull out . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ It 's possible she saw Miss Arrow around the place . |
| 20 | Senior hospital caterer Jimmy Kikozi said : ‘ I have nothing to say about their food , but I imagine we will now see people wearing happy hats around the place . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he adds , ‘ yoghurt is made with bacteria — but people do n't walk around the place saying ‘ Look , I 'm eating germs ! ’ ' |
| 22 | There was another child , too , a girl , but at some fancy Protestant school up in Dublin , hardly ever seen around the place here . |
| 23 | In the meantime it 's empty , although they generally turn up at weekends and mess around the place , painting bits and pieces and knocking in nails . |
| 24 | You sometimes expect MPs ' houses to be reeking of power but this was a nice family house with lots of bicycles around the place . |
| 25 | If the bags are full of rotting food , or there is a smell or filth around the place , then more action may need to be taken , but the first priority is establishing what the person concerned feels , before asking ‘ Would it be helpful for someone to come in and give a hand with tidying up ? ’ |
| 26 | I do n't know any of these fellow who are tearing around the place but the odds are first of all that they are unemployed , secondly that they feel that nobody really cares about them , thirdly that the only way to get any sort of excitement out of life is to charge around the way they do . |
| 27 | ‘ Janine wo n't do anything around the place . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's just that we 're not a noise band , ’ adds Mike , ‘ we do n't jump around the place but we 're totally comfortable with going out on a stage . ’ |
| 29 | The clues lie , probably , in an informality of style ; in signs — at least — that someone has thought about the environment of the office ; evidence of a lot of the agency 's work around the place ( if they have nothing to be proud of ; they can not be much use ) ; an approach which is clearly geared to the idea of selling . |
| 30 | If she did any work around the place , there was no evidence of it on the desk . |