Example sentences of "its [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it evinces a rather daring readiness to weave its fiction around the world of work , where private lives are inextricably bound up with talk of profit margins and raw materials . |
| 2 | The Manport reached my ship 's airlock and clamped on , with puffs of a vapour as it formed its insta-seal around the join . |
| 3 | Other factors can alter the Earth 's climate from millennium to millennium and decade to decade , including slight changes in its orbit around the Sun , and the effects of greenhouse are superimposed on these other factors . |
| 4 | Because of the way that the Moon moves in its orbit around the Earth , its place of rising on the horizon varies a little , each night moving a tiny amount further north until its position of rising seems to come to a halt ( a standstill ) before moving back southwards again . |
| 5 | Astronomically , this is because as the Earth moves around on its axis every 24 hours , the Moon during the day and night moves through one-thirtieth of its orbit around the Earth . |
| 6 | In particular , it was believed that the speed of light ought to change as the earth moves through the ether on its orbit around the sun . |
| 7 | The frog 's forehead bulged as it tried to get its mind around a new idea . |
| 8 | The newspapers said that this was due to the fact that the Syrian army was tightening its ring around the southern suburbs of Beirut where the French and American hostages were thought to be . |
| 9 | The 6ft carpet snake crept into Calan Lavender 's bed , wrapped its body around him and plunged in its fangs . |
| 10 | Even with the credibility and power of the National Gallery 's support , the Barnes Foundation faces additional legal challenges if it ever hopes to take part of its collection around the world . |
| 11 | My stomach curls its tongue around the food and smiles . |
| 12 | Ensure that you know the location of the bridle mark and are familiar with its movement around the rim of the connecting ring at any stage of adjustment . |
| 13 | An adult male dog brought into a new household can prove troublesome by cocking its leg around the furniture . |
| 14 | Seeing the singer on telly squawking ‘ E's are good ’ was like watching a kid waving its potty around its head . |
| 15 | There it curls into a ball , wrapping its tail around its head , and secretes mucus to line its hole . |
| 16 | The house has three show façades , each one isolated from its fellow around the corner , each one with different window surrounds . |
| 17 | A longterm shutdown , however , could force BP to ship its oil around Cape Horn . |
| 18 | A tower of strength , he was for many years the Master in charge of the business side of the Library , supervising its odyssey around the School ; he had helped with lacrosse , with the School 's annual invasions of German-speaking Europe , with the financial side of the School Play . |
| 19 | The path winds its way around the Newtown river and Clamerkin Lake providing some fine estuary walking and taking you inland a little . |
| 20 | The hat is a fragile structure that winds its way around Caron 's head , spiralling upwards — unusual to say the least . |
| 21 | He speaks of one of the ‘ largest and compleatest works in the kingdom for making iron and steel wire ’ , much of which found its way around the county in the form of ‘ cards ’ for the woollen industry . |
| 22 | The meal queue winds its way around the upper deck between trunks , sacks of salt and dozing traders . |
| 23 | So really , this is no more wonderful than a dolphin learning its way around the complexities of its natural marine environment so that it may find — and catch — the best shoals of fish . |
| 24 | Needless to say , the course winds its way around the city , but nature lovers will enjoy the two crossings of the River Thames , over the Reading and Caversham bridges . |
| 25 | A PARCEL winging its way around the country carrying a homing device may sound like something straight from the pages of a James Bond story but there is nothing top secret about the idea . |
| 26 | It then works its way around Minniwick Moss , back to base . |
| 27 | The Loch Trool Forest Trail makes its way around Loch Trool in the Galloway Forest Park . |
| 28 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 29 | In contrast , the laboratory rat appears totally blind to the casual observer , using touch and feel , instead of sight , to negotiate its way around the environment . |
| 30 | An exciting implication , by analogy with certain tumour cells that express Lewis-X and metastasize to the lungs and liver ( the two major systemic organs through which schistosomes migrate ) , is that this sugar provides a means for the parasite to find its way around the host . |