Example sentences of "[noun] be [v-ing] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Bangholm reports that members of the club are hanging around the hall as girls are leaving and some of them are rather afraid . |
| 2 | Harvey 's two kids were chasing around the trees in their pyjamas . |
| 3 | In the closing years of the nineteenth century , just as the eastern Germans were leaving the land and deserting the east , at the very time that the Polish population of the border districts was on the rise , the theoretical and practical policies of both the Polenpolitik and the Kulturkampf were hardening around the drive towards industrial and imperial expansion — if not overseas , which was almost impossible — then in the eastern borderlands . |
| 4 | In contrast the American pairings were a mere nine under par between them , albeit on an afternoon when the wind was swirling around the course causing all sorts of problems with club selection . |
| 5 | A butterfly was flapping around the wheelbarrow looking for a fragrance to match the colour of that great metallic flower . |
| 6 | General Bourbollon 's troops are gathering around the capital ; he 's prepared to cross the Rubicon . |
| 7 | Sid 's petrolsplashing around the walls of the trench had , I believe encouraged the little bastards , they seemed to like the smell of petrol . |
| 8 | Before Mum or Dad could say a word , Natalie was jumping around the hall , singing , ‘ I 'm a Rainbow , I 'm a Rainbow ! ’ much to the amusement of all my Brownie friends . |
| 9 | From left to right , a spinning maelstrom of snow and rain was sweeping around the block like a tornado . |
| 10 | Back at the Ritzy queues are forming around the block , and one of the production team has spotted a pair of diehard Hitman fans in the queue . |
| 11 | Barely a year ago investors were swarming around the airline business like bees around a honeypot ; airlines were forging grand global alliances . |
| 12 | Men in shirtsleeves and women in summer dresses were strolling around the airport and ice-cream vendors were doing a brisk trade . |
| 13 | Here we were greeted by the farmer and his wife , whose sheep and pigs were wandering around the road and the village . |
| 14 | By now the ship was firmly embedded in the shoal and the breakers were forming around the ship . |
| 15 | Much rubbish , mostly lengths of steel angle iron and sheet steel was lying around the building and sadly all traces of railway embellishments , fencing , paving lighting and signs had long been swept away , leaving just mud , weeds and scrub . |
| 16 | The pathetic , skinny dog was scratching around the dustbin searching for the slightest bit of food , until she took one look at me and shot off with her tail between her legs . |
| 17 | A legal row is brewing around the University of California at Berkeley ‘ AT&T code-free ’ BSD4.3 and 4.4 operating system releases , resulting in Unix System Laboratories filing a complaint with the New Jersey Federal Court against Berkeley Software Design Inc ( BSDI ) , an independent company in Falls Church , Virginia that uses the BSD software as the basis for commercial products . |
| 18 | It was seven P.M. ; already military police were sniffing around the clubs and bars of what Texans call ‘ occupied Mexico ’ . |
| 19 | Humans were milling around the base of the Ship . |
| 20 | The marching men were disappearing around the curve of the wall . |
| 21 | The incident , which happened while several people including children were milling around the van , is being treated by police as attempted murder . |
| 22 | The incident , which happened while several people including children were milling around the van , is being treated by police as attempted murder . |
| 23 | Keith is walking around the pool in his white 501s and his white ‘ Young Marlon ’ T-shirt . |
| 24 | The Doctor 's pacing around the cage had stopped . |
| 25 | Precisely the same thing was happening around the Lancashire towns also , where the ancient commons were enclosed and grabbed by the private speculator for building , as at Oldham . |
| 26 | P.C. Torney claimed that Hickson 's story was fabrication , and said the youth was prancing around the room at the police station , boxing and boasting of his prowess as a boxer … as a result of the boisterous behaviour , he caught his eye on a window-ledge . |
| 27 | Microsoft Corp is kicking around the idea of moving portions of Windows to Unix with companies like Insignia Software Inc , according to PC Week . |
| 28 | She got into the coach , the steps were folded up , and in a moment the horses were trotting around the house towards the main drive . |
| 29 | The boys were screaming around the yard outside with companions attracted by the commotion . |
| 30 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |