Example sentences of "it was around " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was around this point , in the midst of dealing with the many demands being made on my attention , that I happened to glance out of a window and spotted the figure of the young Mr Cardinal taking some fresh air around the grounds . |
| 2 | It was around this point — and I have no idea if he had planned to do so beforehand — that his lordship began to reminisce about his late friend , Herr Karl-Heinz Bremann . |
| 3 | It was around Lake Baikal that the woman in pink had been able to share in her daughter 's delight with the journey . |
| 4 | It was around these two precocious strikers that Torino intended to reclaim their rightful crown as the city 's top club . |
| 5 | It was a sound they knew , one often heard at night from within the dark walls of the cottages in the village , but out here it was around them and with them and part of them and it had an eerie quality as though inside the vixen some diabolic spirit was entrapped , a demon screeching its despair . |
| 6 | And it was around the locality that loyalty was built . |
| 7 | It was 1852 before freight receipts exceeded passenger receipts and it was around the same time that the railways overtook the canals to become the principal freight carriers . |
| 8 | It was around the family table that Blanc learned to respect food . |
| 9 | I suppose it was around this period that our Investigation Department began to involve the cutters in some of their more interesting operations . |
| 10 | I stood at the front door and it was around my ankles , within five minutes it was around my knees , ’ said Joanne . |
| 11 | I stood at the front door and it was around my ankles , within five minutes it was around my knees , ’ said Joanne . |
| 12 | But this time the tape was sagging so low it was around the horse 's knees . |
| 13 | But this time the tape was sagging so low it was around the horse 's knees . |
| 14 | It was around Douaumont Village that the main fury of the fighting raged . |
| 15 | Well Mark held er a meeting based on that document that was sent down so , they had to cancel it because it was around er thing they were voting on you see ? |