Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The royal favourite gazed moodily around the chamber . |
| 2 | Dirkin glances quickly around the kitchen . |
| 3 | Ample free car parking all around the hotel . |
| 4 | The wind parted imperturbably around the cottage and passed on up the valley . |
| 5 | Mrs Jarrett was certified dead at 6.35 p.m. on Saturday , 5 October , and news of the tragedy spread quickly around the estate during the evening . |
| 6 | A loosely constructed plot evolves fitfully around the activities of Rusty , Serena , her husband Rupert , and Stella . |
| 7 | Talk and laughter flowed easily around the table from then on , though business was n't discussed . |
| 8 | Vanilla climbed delicately around the trunks of cocoa and citrus . |
| 9 | Our politicians still speak of help coming just around the corner , but in the inner cities of England and America , among the chronically unemployed , among the young faced with the long-term prospects of AIDS or the imminent threat of annihilation , there is little talk of hope . |
| 10 | She could lie in bed at night and in imagination move confidently around the cottage touching them in a happy exploration of shared memories and reassurance . |
| 11 | A small smile plays teasingly around the corners of my mouth and I ask , ‘ Do you have jobs ? ’ |
| 12 | Soon after we had finished our New Year 's lunch , we heard the familiar sound of the Indian National Anthem chiming defiantly around the flat . |
| 13 | A continuous multi-pitched hum whirred deafeningly around the shrine . |
| 14 | You use them , the handles must be fully opened , and the chain placed squarely around the pipe , with the wheels on the point where the cut is to be made . |
| 15 | Robyn watched from the shelter of the long cream curtains which shrouded the vast downstairs window , her finger curled thankfully around the mug of hot , hot coffee . |
| 16 | The geographic distribution of Sea Life Centres makes us uniquely placed to support marine conservation endeavours right around the UK coastline and , in particular , to encourage public involvement and interest in these endeavours . |
| 17 | The ingredients are all there : an in-house bank ; a string of obscure firms ( including the appropriately named Croesus International ) based in loosely-regulated offshore financial centres ; and blocks of money winging electronically around the world . |
| 18 | More recent changes in female employment , and the increasing ‘ liberation ’ of women from a life centred entirely around the home and the family , will make such an assessment increasingly outdated . |
| 19 | This does n't mean that the conclusion that life exists all around the universe is necessarily wrong . |
| 20 | As he approached details became clear : the anxious face of a young man framed by the jacket 's collar pulled tight around the neck , shoulders hunched . |
| 21 | But she was one of the shyest of all the hijras I met , and one of the most gentle ; her life revolved entirely around the baby she had just adopted . |
| 22 | The answer to our question — of how much luck we are allowed to postulate — depends upon whether our planet is the only one that has life , or whether life abounds all around the universe . |
| 23 | Press the strip around the inside of the tin so that the snipped edge tucks neatly around the base , overlapping to allow the paper to curve . |
| 24 | He squeezed the trigger and the echo of the shot blasted all around the stairwell . |
| 25 | The syntactic analysis revolves mainly around the study of adverbial and participial structures in the narrative . |
| 26 | The immigrants arrived in a world organized socially around the conflict between labour and capital . |
| 27 | He entered the next carriage , his hand gripped tightly around the railing , and moved slowly down the corridor until he reached his own compartment . |
| 28 | Though his first wife remains a shadowy and rather pathetic figure about whom one longs to know more , there is plenty here on the crowded , ramshackle household and its often hand-to-mouth existence constructed entirely around the demands of the workaholic , temperamental sculptor — the hoarded treasures , the art and music which pervaded the house , the much loved but somewhat casually raised children , the constantly changing and eccentric cast of live-in models , nannies , general factotums , portrait sitters , studio visitors , plaster moulders , musicians , friends and members of the press who were usually given short shrift . |
| 29 | Reality began to slide away outside , and a sphincter of darkness drew tight around the windows . |
| 30 | The CIOB 's ongoing role is to approve and accredit NVQ assessment centres all around the country , and to quality assure those centres to ensure that standards are maintained . |