Example sentences of "to [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather unreasonably , I felt somewhat cheated for I had been the one to traipse around the town , forgetting all the preliminary work that others had done ! |
| 2 | He joined up in the spring of 1940 and spent the next two years moving from camp to camp around England with the Royal Engineers . |
| 3 | Climate is determined by all kinds of influences : distance from the equator , direction of wind ( which in general tends to be east to west around the equator , because the Earth spins from west to east ) , the distribution of the land masses and the proximity of water , and the positions and height of mountains . |
| 4 | What comes to light around the 4th , 10th and 15th may give you quite a jolt . |
| 5 | In Ireland , even in high summer they say , never bet on mirages ; as you approach ever closer to those distant shimmering patches , they go on shimmering until they force you to detour around them — or get wet . |
| 6 | A sheen of cyan tattered to azure around him ; he had decided to do something but dropped the idea for some reason . |
| 7 | ‘ Yanto Gates , ’ she squeaked , ‘ if you think I am going to hare around the country in all winds and weathers in a contraption like that , you 've got another think coming . |
| 8 | The Tans immediately began to prance around him , laughing and howling . |
| 9 | The great Dust Bowl which Maggie has seen only from the air , was once the long flank , the turning of the armpit of a dragon greater than Fenna , the great dragon laid out across the world its tail cooled by the oceans of the Antarctic and its breath , no longer fire , turned to ice around its head in the most northerly places of the globe . |
| 10 | I was told one flight was full , and left the gate to mooch around the newsstands . |
| 11 | ‘ I shall return to work around February 1 , ’ said the consultant . |
| 12 | So vast quantities of stone were stockpiled along the way , and gangs of territorials , perhaps 1,000 in all , were set to work around the clock filling in and levelling the holes as they formed . |
| 13 | Chub to maggot around Skipton Bridge , try big baits . |
| 14 | Expect his team to group around the yellow jersey , lots of nervousness and shoving in the peloton , while adventurous riders test their strength at the front . |
| 15 | The same keys are used to highlight text as to move around it , and the two functions should be used in combination . |
| 16 | Three women are plucked at random from their seats by the great Dame 's magic purple possum plucker to nose around someone 's house . |
| 17 | If you want to escape the Great Bard for a while , take a day trip to the beautiful Cotswolds to nose around its idyllic villages and walk in the beautiful scenery . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , it might be interesting if someone like you were to nose around INCUBUS headquarters in Helsinki , ask some questions . |
| 19 | The four-and-a-half gallons of oil take about ten minutes to warm up to the minimum 40°C , and we used the time to taxi around the sheltered bay within Calshot Split , checking for debris and driftwood and surveying the area . |
| 20 | The tour will show you the whole manufacturing process by following the progress of a pair of shoes from start to finish around the factory . |
| 21 | The system will allow the vessel , designed for up to 20 years of service , to weathervane around a turret near the bow while shuttle tankers collect cargoes to transport ashore . |
| 22 | Yet the two institutions continue to tip-toe around the subject in public , talking in bizarre code about ‘ the need for certain measures ’ to be taken ‘ to restore competitiveness ’ . |
| 23 | Not , thought Robert , that there would be much anyone could do should the Twenty-fourth Imam decide to loon around SW19 behaving like a negative version of Superman . |
| 24 | If you are just beginning to ride , I would strongly recommend at least half a dozen lessons on the lunge before you join the crocodile of horses marching nose to tail around a school . |
| 25 | Of course , biopics still have to pussyfoot around the survivors , hence the Bearded Film Director Who Did n't Look Anything Like John Landis in Wired who finds John Belushi ( honorary rock star ) , snorting coke in his Winnebago and then says ( best line delivered in the film ) ‘ John , this is economically unfeasible ’ . |
| 26 | But camp comes to life around that recognition ; it is situated at the point of emergence of the artificial from the real , culture from nature — or rather when and where the real collapses into artifice , nature into culture ; camp restores vitality to artifice , and vice versa , deriving the artificial from , and feeding it back into or as , the real . |
| 27 | As the patrol , now unloaded and debriefed , relax over a mug of tea and a cigarette , the depot slowly comes back to life around them . |
| 28 | Erm just like the the images , rather than it just all like being in his imagination I think it all coming to life around him . |
| 29 | ‘ Of course she does have staff to hand around the nosh , ’ Ken told her . |
| 30 | The forces acting on the 30 mg masses along the Sun-Earth axis are the gravitational attraction of the Sun ( ) , the centrifugal force due to motion around the sun ( ) , and a pull from the balance ( F ) . |