Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun sg] around [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |
| 2 | ‘ He was the chap who owned the place around the turn of the century . |
| 3 | Paisley about faced and led the parade around the block so that it now came upon Fisherwick Place from the west . |
| 4 | He led the way around the edge of a marsh and then through drier land , with limestone boulders on it . |
| 5 | They filled the aisle around the coffin and spilled on to the altar itself . |
| 6 | Nathaniel Sherman looked at his sons and beamed proudly as they joined the group around the governor . |
| 7 | When the interview ended , and Jean-Claude Meursault had risen , shaken her hand gravely , and then quickly joined the group around the camera at the end of the track to Miranda 's right , she began sketching in her small pad and taking the occasional photograph when the noise levels permitted . |
| 8 | He shone the torch around the room before entering . |
| 9 | Some , ‘ … wiser than the rest , lay their heads together and resolved in council to be before-hand ’ and went with picks and shovels and opened the land around the monument to a depth of six feet . |
| 10 | Given the chance , I would have stayed watching or followed the kestrel around the park all day , but if I was on a shopping sortie with my mother , she was always in an incredible hurry , so that was n't possible . |
| 11 | Harvey was lounging full length across the sheepskin seats that followed the wall around the corner . |
| 12 | In Barnsley in the early 1950s men were even seen reading the ‘ green'un ’ over their partner 's shoulder as they mechanically steered the wife around the ballroom on a Saturday night . |
| 13 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 14 | Sikes quickly tied the rope around the chimney , then began to tie the other end around himself , ready to lower himself to the ground behind the house . |
| 15 | With about 10 minutes of the match to go Forrester collected the ball on the right edge of the penalty area after agood run from Kelly , turned and curled the ball around the goalie and into the opposite top corner of the net — a truely brilliant goal . |
| 16 | Grimacing , she turned the key in the ignition once more , and brought the car around the way she had come . |
| 17 | After five days we removed the packing around the splint . |
| 18 | So he bought the land around the factory , and the village now covers one thousand acres . |
| 19 | Cleared the area around the overflow chamber , removing the access bridge and ramps . |
| 20 | He covered her over and ran the torch around the dirt , checking that he had not left any incriminating clues . |
| 21 | They calculated the distance around the earth , then took a fraction of this measurement as their unit of length and called it a metre . |
| 22 | A second casualty was Nigel Theadom 's fancied ‘ Djinn Seng ’ from Haven Ports who developed an alarming bend in her mast , while Nick Holland-Brown blew out a spinnaker aboard the Dehler 38 ‘ Patriot ’ and in the resulting confusion took a gybe which wrapped the mainsheet around the binnacle and tore it from its setting . |