Example sentences of "[noun sg] around the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman came out of her house and apparently poured a pot of tea around the base of a bush . |
| 2 | ‘ Yanto Gates , ’ she squeaked , ‘ if you think I am going to hare around the country in all winds and weathers in a contraption like that , you 've got another think coming . |
| 3 | The Labour government sought from the start to construct and hold together a support bloc around the theme of a ‘ social contract ’ , and I propose to organise my account of the development of political forces in this period around that same theme . |
| 4 | She ran her forefinger around the inside of the white pyrex bowl and said nothing . |
| 5 | I cut down young trees and put them in the ground , in a half-circle around the front of my tent . |
| 6 | It was originally powered by an iron and wood breast shot water wheel , replaced with a turbine around the turn of the century . |
| 7 | Starting in the early days of St Cuthberts with local delivery carts , there has been continuous use of this economical form of transport , through the heyday of the horse around the turn of the century , and the rapid change to motorized vehicles in the 1920s and 30s , to the hire carriages in use today . |
| 8 | The left-hand chambers have to pump much harder to force the re-oxygenated blood around the whole of the body . |
| 9 | It may appear contradictory , at a time when so much emphasis is given to restructuring business/education liaison around the notion of local solutions to local problems , for the Teacher Placement Service to retain a national project team comprising project director and regional managers . |
| 10 | In trees , the tiny water tubes are in a ring around the inside of the trunk . |
| 11 | Day Four : This morning you may wish to take a break from cycling and take a wander around the town of Hilversum . |
| 12 | I also run a contrast colour tacking stitch around the outline for a sewing guide and I leave this in place until I have re-hung the sweater on the knitting machine to attach the neck band . |
| 13 | Syn-gas and carbon monoxide have been a mainstay of the heavy organic chemicals industry around the world for some years . |
| 14 | The effect of the burning power cables was to send much of the instrumentation around the reactor into confusion . |
| 15 | Some quick research around the corner at the New York Genealogical Society . |
| 16 | Players in the virtually invincible Yale side around the turn of the century would dip their shirts in blood from an abattoir before a match . |
| 17 | A first call for proposals may be made in April with a deadline for submission around the end of May . |
| 18 | At the height of the Teddy boy era the local cinema foolishly premiered Rock Around the Clock on bonfire Night . |
| 19 | The Teds were instantly recognised as symptomatic of the new ‘ classless ’ society and the ‘ affluent ’ breeze blowing in from across the Atlantic , a feeling that was massively reinforced by the wave of cinema riots that greeted the arrival of Bill Haley 's Rock Around the Clock in Britain . |
| 20 | She imagined that to walk that track , and to climb the rough hewn rock around the mouth of the cave , would bring her to the top of the canyon . |
| 21 | On Sept. 15 President Najibullah welcomed the agreement and offered a ceasefire amidst reports of intense fighting around the town of Gardez , 100 km south of Kabul . |
| 22 | The road , now the A.838 , crosses the water by a modern bridge making unnecessary the long detour around the head of the Kyle . |
| 23 | Current forecasts indicate , with the exception of a slight decrease around the turn of the millennium , that the population aged over 65 will continue to increase from 8.8 million in 1987 to 11.3 million in 2025 ( see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 24 | You fit Open University study around the rest of your life . |
| 25 | The island , a small green tree-covered expanse in the middle of a smooth , glassy lake , came into closer view , and edgily she cast a glance around the boat for some kind of weapon . |
| 26 | Dr Dickson , on whose research our knowledge of the structure of debt holding depends , has analysed the pattern for Bank of England , South Sea , East India and government 4 per cent stock around the time of Pelham 's reduction of interest in 1749 – . |
| 27 | 1 So that you can hang the pomander , wind two pieces of tape around the orange at right angles to each other . |
| 28 | Then they have to send Ministers like that youngster around the world with a begging bowl to get other industries to come in to repair the damage that they have done . |
| 29 | At the conclusion , Richardson 's young , reconstituted team took off on a joyful , hand-in-hand lap of honour around the outfield in a significant show of unity . |
| 30 | After tedious checks a clutch of people who had been seen on Hampstead Heath around the time of the death had been traced but none could be linked to the murder . |