Example sentences of "the [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | They soon left the estate , crossed the highway , and entered the park around Maran Hill . |
| 2 | And this will assist the fragmentation around the imagined absoluteness of ethnic differences upon which both the New Right and the ‘ cultural nationalists ’ from the ethnic minorities have been premising their demands for cultural separatism in education ( cf. |
| 3 | She pulled the fur around her . |
| 4 | This causes the nodes to contract regularly , thereby propelling the lymph around the body . |
| 5 | I think he 's done it , I think he 's across the river and safe and there 's a buzzy glow of vicarious accomplishment starting to well up within me , but then there 's a cracking noise and he falls ; I think he 's tripped and fallen forward but he is n't lying flat on the snow , he 's sunk up to his waist in it and there 's a pool of darkness spreading on the whiteness around him as he struggles , trying to lever himself out and I ca n't believe this is happening , ca n't believe Andy is n't going to jump free ; I 'm yelling in fear now , shouting his name , screaming out to him . |
| 6 | There was one more group dealt a glancing blow by the Prince around the same time : and this was Britain 's farmers . |
| 7 | Save the trek around the shops — order right away , and that useful gift can still be with you in time for Christmas . |
| 8 | He moved away from the mirror , seated himself a little way from the top of the main staircase and wrapped the tails of the shirt around his legs . |
| 9 | His pale eyes ice-burned Jess 's skin as she hastily pulled the remnants of the shirt around her . |
| 10 | She shuddered , then slipped the shirt around her bare shoulders before heading towards the landing . |
| 11 | Meh'Lindi was soon way out of sight of the Squat around a wide bend . |
| 12 | Television 's response to the struggle around Clause 28 reflected the status the campaign achieved in the political arena . |
| 13 | It was the same expression he 'd had when backing away from the struggle around the campfire just before Osvaldo — his beard still smouldering — had put him under arrest . |
| 14 | It is the sentence around which she has shaped her identity . |
| 15 | For two years my father-in-law shuffled the money around various building societies , chasing the best interest rates , which at times were around the 20 per cent mark . |
| 16 | Pc Masheder said , ‘ I felt the tightness around my throat becoming even tighter . |
| 17 | The Author weaves the narrative around the detailed eyewitness accounts of aircrews , groundcrews and those who built the large four engined bomber . |
| 18 | Agnes Fogerty , quiet and still as a mouse , and not unlike that timid animal in her much-pressed grey flannel skirt and twin-set to match , stood oblivious of the chaos around her . |
| 19 | This was also the case around the turn of the century , when the emerging labour movement often used local political activity in particular strongholds such as East London and Sheffield to promote its aims and objectives long before it reached the national political stage . |
| 20 | It is unique in being able to incorporate MacPaint images and run the text around them , regardless of their shape . |
| 21 | Sparc laptop house , San Diego , California-based , RDI Corp , is finally getting around to telling us that it 's out of the kidding around stage and trying to become a real company . |
| 22 | We have mapped the field around PSR1706–44 at 843MHz with a resolution of 44 arcsec using the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope , and have identified a shell-type SNR at a distance of about 3kpc — consistent with the distance deduced for the pulsar . |
| 23 | Gloria tucked the blanket around Dot and kissed the tip of her nose . |
| 24 | He pulled the blanket around his back and hooked the frayed patch over the nail so that the light from the window would not be spotted if the door was opened . |
| 25 | Making a mental note to drop the watch into Merryfields watch repairs on his next visit to Berkeley , Yanto hitched the blanket around him and walked through the silent house into the kitchen . |
| 26 | She turned on her side and pulled the blanket around her neck . |
| 27 | The cold wind blew his cropped white hair and made him shiver violently , but he resisted Tallis 's attempt to tug the cloak around his shoulders , instead pushing the feather into her hand . |
| 28 | General manager is showing , the buyer around the Terminal . |
| 29 | Petrol , food and a few tools had been his biggest expenses so far , and if the budget started to tighten he 'd have to stop buying food and see what he could find in the woodland around him . |
| 30 | The Prince of the Asturias was in contact with this aristocratic opposition , publishing caricatures distributed in taverns in order to discredit his father 's court and the favourite around which it centred . |