Example sentences of "a [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , in the play , Puck the fairy is supposed to say he 'll put a girdle around the earth in forty minutes — ’ |
| 2 | We , we did trim them a bit around the sides , they were quite big , you know , . |
| 3 | Erm and that was after we put out a referendum around the plant and we got a seventy eight response saying , No smoking . |
| 4 | The courtly ceremonial acted as a veil around the naked reality of Mughal politics ; it was a mask which deliberately disguised the brutality and coarseness that lay hidden beneath . |
| 5 | Anyway poor Ophelia emerges as a tragic woman who drowns herself in a river , flowers in her hand , hair spread out like a veil around her . |
| 6 | Omi hooked a thread around her crochet-hook . |
| 7 | The Arches exhibition organisers had placed a dinosaur around a corner and asked them to deal with it . |
| 8 | The White Dwarf pulls material away from its companion , and builds up a shell around itself ; when enough hydrogen has accumulated there is a violent though short-lived outburst . |
| 9 | George felt a tightening around his heart . |
| 10 | Sir Nicholas Goodison , the former chairman of the International Stock Exchange , once appeared on television 's Jim 'll Fix it to hang a badge around a small child 's neck . |
| 11 | Before the poor victim had a chance to scream , Mildred had tied a gag around her mouth . |
| 12 | So large , that when plans to flood their lowland were first announced , the Rut landers protested , ‘ But we do not wish our county to be just a towpath around a lake ! ’ |
| 13 | It still a best-seller around the world . |
| 14 | Jim Fulton , Health Physics , first quarterly winner of Safetip with suggestion to erect a handrail around the laundry building roof to improve safety . |
| 15 | It was more than a kilometre around the islands from the lighthouse to the ship , and every wave , every rock was different and dangerous . |
| 16 | An injunction was granted in that case to enforce that duty ordering the owner to maintain a hoarding around a vacant piece of his land or find some other way to prevent trespassers from using and depositing filth and refuse there , which amongst other things , gave rise to foul odours . |
| 17 | ‘ There is a ford around the next great bend of the river , at the Yair or Yarrow , where the Berwickers net the salmon . |
| 18 | To provide foundations for the walls , we formed a toe around the outside , 75mm deeper and a shovel width ( like a moat ) , and skimmed off the sharp corner . |
| 19 | And it took our model 's breath away when she tried on the ring … its facets sparkling like a waterfall around the dimly-lit room . |
| 20 | The markings should be located as follows : a spot over each eye ; on cheeks ; as a strip around each side of muzzle , but not on the bridge of the nose ; on throat ; triangular mark on either side of prosternum ; on forelegs from carpus downwards to toes ; on front of rear legs from hock to toes , but not completely eliminating black from back of rear pasterns ; under tail ; black pencilling on toes . |
| 21 | Each time a measurement is made the program checks that a strip around the reference strip has at most a small number of ON pixels in it . |
| 22 | Engine components are stacked to portable shelving and essentially follow the stripped-down radial on a parallel around the CFS facility . |
| 23 | There was also a skirmish around the question of married deacons , an idea broached in chapter II of the document on the Church , Lumen Gentium ( officially , De Ecclesia ) . |
| 24 | However , while it was comparatively easy to cobble together a story around a popular star , the British industry was not yet well organized when it came to finding a steady output of ideas for dramatic features and developing them into workable scripts . |
| 25 | Take your biggest fear , take three or four symbols ( for example , a door , an attic , a ring , a knife ) that hold significance for you and organise a story around the fear and the symbols . |
| 26 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 27 | If this bit does refer to you , open your eyes , take a look around you , see what 's going on and do something . |
| 28 | I trudged back to the city centre and tried to have a look around the main shopping district , forced to sprint squelchily from doorway to doorway and from one dripping awning to another ; but it was hopeless . |
| 29 | Before I left , I took a look around Pat 's kitchen . |
| 30 | for anyone who has a programme with potential outside their own country , who wants to have a look around the industry for themselves and is interested in the television process ( in all its manifestations ) . |