Example sentences of "no [noun sg] around " in BNC.

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1 So far I have been lucky in that I have never had to work at getting the next job but there may be a point when I look up and there is no opportunity around the corner . ’
2 But it used to be different then … there was n't no atmosphere like there is now and there were n't no fence around the London Road like now …
3 The neck is maple again , with a separate but similarly-birdseyed fingerboard — which means no skunk-stripe around the back to house the double-action truss rod .
4 There was no mist around them .
5 At the Rose and Crown pub where the executioner was once landlord there was a sign on the bar warning : ‘ No hanging around the bar . ’
6 ‘ There is to be no hanging around the High Street and staring into shop windows , ’ he went on .
7 Just inside the gate was a tool shed having a well with no wall around it .
8 The default table is for a design in which there is no border around the table and just a line beneath the column titles and between each column .
9 Make sure there 's no air around that 'll stop it rusting .
10 ‘ Those were not the same people I had known ; they were homeless , with no nest around them and no children .
11 And Michael Herr said in Dispatches , ‘ There 's no way around it .
12 I had to be able to say ‘ Yes this is killing , there is no way around it .
13 But back to Charlie and those gossipy tales about the steamy scenes that had been filmed behind closed doors : ‘ There 's no running around naked — it 's not a porno film .
14 Make sure there is no grease around the eye — use powder if necessary .
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