Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] [verb] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heavy fighting was also reported around the city of Khost . |
| 2 | Item No 3 : this key was probably made around the 1800s . |
| 3 | He went out on to the balcony and the applause was still echoing around the ballroom . |
| 4 | If the foliage was closely arranged around the figure this would allow for the cutter 's inability to carve deeper than the distance between its projecting edge and the body of the angle grinder that powers it . |
| 5 | Suppose that the mating preference was asymmetrically arranged around the familiar so that first cousins with conspicuous plumage were preferred over those with dowdier plumage , then there would have been a relentless pressure for plumage to become more conspicuous . |