Example sentences of "up around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept walking , past the old mill , right up around the bend to where the council property starts , and I thought , oh , shit , council houses . |
| 2 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 3 | One participant , Rinchen Dolma Taring , wrote in her book , Daughter of Tibet : ‘ The Lhasa women had made many anti-Chinese posters and when I joined them they were lined up around the Barkhor shouting slogans , ‘ From today Tibet is independent ’ and ‘ China must quit Tibet ’ . |
| 4 | A computermail database network has even been set up around the country for fans to debate the killer of Laura Palmer , the lovely blonde homecoming queen whose body mysteriously washes onto a river bank near a lumbermill in the fictional Pacific northwest town of Twin Peaks . |
| 5 | This huge old hospital is known by the Milanese as the Ca'Grande , or ‘ Great House ’ , and was built by Francesco Sforza in 1456 as a way of bringing together in one place about thirty little hospitals which had grown up around the Porta Romana . |
| 6 | Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley , but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills . |
| 7 | Things will really hot up around the 12th or 14th — just remember your worth ; your time and talents must be bough and paid for in full . |
| 8 | In the sixteenth century , Mary , Queen of Scots , conferred the honour of Royal Burgh on the community that grew up around the estuary . |
| 9 | Willie grew up around the tenements of Glasgow , and had an equally tough road to go down before he carried his first significant bag . |
| 10 | A spatter cone or spatter ring consisting exclusively of welded cow-pats often builds up around the vent . |
| 11 | These terms are all very descriptive , since the material which accumulates around a Strombolian vent does indeed look rather like boiler slag , but it is more correctly called scoria , and the cones which build up around the vent scoria cones . |
| 12 | The wall alongside is then followed up around the curve of Simon Fell and the top of Ingleborough is reached from the north-east . |
| 13 | For instance , the smooth flowing curve of the soft rail encourages water to follow the line of the rail up around the board , therefore having the effect of sucking the board into the water . |
| 14 | The Anglo Scotia lace factory was built around 1870 — a Gothic four-storey building of extravagant design for such a purpose , with castellated turrets and parapet recalling some of the fortress-like factories put up around the time of the Luddite riots . |
| 15 | The popularity of cider seems to have grown up around the time of the Norman Conquest , and the best soil and climate for growing apples dictated that the south-west became predominant in cider-making . |
| 16 | Any book about Scottish football inevitably brings the reader into direct contact with the major Glasgow clubs , Rangers and Celtic , and such is the passion they arouse , that a degree of false diplomacy has grown up around the way the clubs and their players are treated . |
| 17 | The experiment in the Morton salt Mine in Ohio is one of a number set up around the world to do just this . |
| 18 | A real science is now growing up around the concept of the human window , while there is no evidence or logical reason to accept Fredkin 's supposition at all . |
| 19 | Above 18th-century comb-back chairs of elm and ash are drawn up around the 17thcentury tavern table , which boasts a collection of antique wooden rushlight holders |
| 20 | To my astonishment a forest of hands shot up around the class . |
| 21 | Indeed , a whole body of knowledge has grown up around the uses of different types of crystal in healing and meditation , and we have seen from folklore that ancient people attributed value and properties to certain stones . |
| 22 | Today the Abbey 's massive gatehouse overlooks the ancient battlefield and , on the opposite side , the lovely little market town called Battle , which grew up around the Abbey walls . |
| 23 | A consensus has welled up around the church and left as its high-water mark a distinctive view of doubt which is prejudicial to faith and quite illegitimate . |
| 24 | Annabel units from Bernstein 's Misty Bedroom Range set up around the bed form an attractive alcove with a dressing table unit and cupboards . |
| 25 | A resilient indigenous legal culture grew up around the courts , and attempts by government to change this culture were unsuccessful . |
| 26 | At first new communities grew up around the heavy industries of coal , steel and shipping . |
| 27 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 28 | ‘ Electric blue caterpillar long as my arm , coiled up around the reactor ! |
| 29 | The ‘ Early Bird ’ photographic sessions saw all three locomotives plus the BRM 's own No. 5080 ‘ Defiant ’ lined up around the turntable in the November sunshine . |
| 30 | These myths mostly trace to his own misleading reminiscences later in life , and have been relentlessly reaffirmed since , at the 1959 centennial symposia for example and in the 1978 BBC-TV series on Darwin ; but they are nonetheless discredited by the scholarly industry now grown up around the rich manuscript archive from Darwin 's early years ( Kohn , 1986 ) . |