Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [to-vb] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When 26-year-old Tim Haller , from Horncastle , Lincs , bought a double-decker bus in 1988 , his great ambition was to travel around the world in it . |
| 2 | I do n't know any of these fellow who are tearing around the place but the odds are first of all that they are unemployed , secondly that they feel that nobody really cares about them , thirdly that the only way to get any sort of excitement out of life is to charge around the way they do . |
| 3 | Her style is to run around the mat , changing direction at a moment 's notice , and then fly in for a throw . |
| 4 | A romantic alternative for your honeymoon is to cruise around the islands and sheltered sea lochs of the of the West coast of Scotland , Britain 's last remaining wilderness . |
| 5 | I knew that shrinks were meant to respect the inability of their patients to express certain fundamental anxieties , that the whole thrust of their endeavour was to move around the edifice of such neuroses , gradually excavating their foundations in memory with a sort of verbal teaspoon . |