Example sentences of "[noun] was [be] [vb pp] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the next two or three days I noticed one of the remaining young fish was being chased around the tank by an older Harlequin , which had been in the aquarium for a few years . |
| 2 | As to whether of this longer distance traffic was being diverted around the southern bypass . |
| 3 | Before the match started , a little white blow-up airship was being tossed around the kop for a while , inscribed with the words ‘ Bring Back Cantona ’ . |
| 4 | My earliest memory was being handed around a railway carriage in the Waverley station , Edinburgh , and being kissed by a crowd of drunken Gordon Highlander Reservists on their way to their depot in Aberdeen , to join the colours . |
| 5 | A long train of timber wagons and oil tanks was being shunted around a siding and the locomotive laid a coil of black smoke across the white landscape . |