Example sentences of "around the stage [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are five of them , all small , all looking 12 , all crashing around the stage of the Camden Palace ( an unlikely , and certainly untypical , place to make a British debut ) like possessed battling tops . |
| 2 | But in Stephen Jameson 's performance he looks like Beckett 's Pozzo or a Daily Worker cartoon of a bloated capitalist : bounced around the stage at one point like a rubber doll , he becomes a figure from a comedy of humours rather than a semi-Chekhovian fantasia . |
| 3 | He seemed to expect this , and merely abused the audience back , spitting at them , skidding over on to his arse once , and drinking and slouching around the stage as if he were in his living room . |
| 4 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |
| 5 | Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition , he neglects the art of singing into the mic , grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street . |
| 6 | Leaping around the stage like a hyperactive elf , his relationship with the audience is notably more relaxed and chatty than his most caustic and hectoring period . |
| 7 | Cassidy , I thought , was rather more interesting in his nightmarish salamander-prince incarnation , where he writhed around the stage in scaly green tights . |
| 8 | Thrusting and grinding around the stage in unison with her dancers , she made the message clear — ‘ I 'm no longer safe little Charlene ’ . |
| 9 | Off came the stylish suit and soon she was again prancing provocatively around the stage in a skimpy pink sequined bra and shorts . |
| 10 | A non dancer by nature , he swirled around the stage in a glorious celebration of newly liberated frustration . |
| 11 | Everyone thought there 'd be a roar of ribald laughter at that line if Puck happened to be hopping around the stage in plaster at the time . ’ |
| 12 | Many of the instrumental numbers were so relaxed , they looked like they were amusing themselves at a family party and when Harry told everyone to stand up as he bopped around the stage in his black silk suit , everyone did as they were told . |
| 13 | He staggers around the stage in half darkness , apparently playing only for himself ; a guitar hero without any self-congratulatory heroics . |
| 14 | Subtle lighting changes in and around the stage from magical lights are automatic , and the puppets can duck in and out of the curtained-off side-booths to change costumes . |