Example sentences of "circle around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cut away a neat edged circle around the base of trees and where the shrubs overhang the lawn . |
| 2 | I swung in a wide circle around the machine climbing slightly to loose speed and came in at him again from dead ahead and slightly above . |
| 3 | The earth is trying to move on a straight line through space-time , but the curvature of space-time produced by the mass of the sun causes it to go in a circle around the sun . |
| 4 | His chamber is decorated almost wholly in black and midnight blue , and an 8-yard diameter circle around the Oracle 's throne is covered in thick , slimy strands which look like a gooey spider 's web . |
| 5 | He also seems to have developed connections with the circle around the prince . |
| 6 | He also seems to have developed connections with the circle around the prince . |
| 7 | Before reaching London , Gloucester apparently wrote to the council and to the city 's mayor , explaining that he had taken possession of the prince because the circle around the boy had been inimical to the safety of king and kingdom . |
| 8 | Before reaching London , Gloucester apparently wrote to the council and to the city 's mayor , explaining that he had taken possession of the prince because the circle around the boy had been inimical to the safety of king and kingdom . |
| 9 | The two men had become increasingly resentful of the circle around the king , and their rebellion was specifically directed against the ‘ covetous rule and guiding ’ of this group , identified in the rebels ' manifesto as the family of queen Elizabeth Woodville , the earls of Devon and Pembroke , John lord Audley and Sir John Fogge . |
| 10 | The two men had become increasingly resentful of the circle around the king , and their rebellion was specifically directed against the ‘ covetous rule and guiding ’ of this group , identified in the rebels ' manifesto as the family of queen Elizabeth Woodville , the earls of Devon and Pembroke , John lord Audley and Sir John Fogge . |
| 11 | With 250 on the clock I heave the how-heavy stick to the right and when we have twenty degrees of bank I brace , pull and reverse the roll to watch our nose carve a lazy anti-clockwise circle around the sapphire sky . |
| 12 | A shaped metal guard flips down to form a complete protective circle around the cord , useful around trees |
| 13 | Pipe another circle around the edges to make nests . |
| 14 | The threshing floors lay bare , pale , trodden and packed down in a circle around the post where the oxen had circled . |
| 15 | In the figure the curvature in the section shown is whilst the orthogonal line in the surface ( a circle around the axis of symmetry ) has curvature . |
| 16 | He denied the Aristotelian claim that all motion requires a cause and in its place proposed a circular law of inertia , according to which a moving object subject to no forces will move indefinitely in a circle around the earth at uniform speed . |
| 17 | The net can be positioned either as a box or in an approximate circle around the warren site . |
| 18 | Start by measuring in a rough circle around the dog 's throat and up over the ears , and then add a further 5 cm ( 2 in ) to this figure . |
| 19 | She came full circle around the house , and opened a door to find herself looking up again at the dangling corpse statue . |
| 20 | It 's nothing fancy You just put a wee circle around the answer you want to give to each statement . |
| 21 | A bowler who strays wide of the off or leg stumps gives the batsman ‘ width ’ and enables him to glance , cut , and deflect , opening up scoring opportunities in a 360 degree circle around the bat . |