Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] around the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My lips felt engorged , there was a ringing in my ears , and I could feel the blood pumping around the veins in my head . |
| 2 | Or a back sweeping around the states of Holland with your boyfriend or girlfriend ? |
| 3 | Interspersed with these are anecdotes from his own personal experience travelling around the remains of the country as a journalist , which makes harrowing reading , if only to note how indiscriminately trigger-happy so many people over there seem to be ( joking , for instance , about ‘ target practice ’ on a car containing a TV-film crew ) . |
| 4 | After a lifetime of hanging around in pubs , he will spend a month hanging around the walls of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in this collection of original artwork by Harry Venning . |
| 5 | Next he uses the same technique but this time on to a sheet of transparent glass placed on trestles , which allows the photographer to film the act through the glass , so that we see the paint falling around the pebbles and wires already placed on the glass . |
| 6 | Less than an hour before Anna was attacked another council employee phoned Gloucester police to say she 'd seen a man hanging around the docks all day acting suspiciously . |
| 7 | Firstly , tomorrow you will see , I 'm told , a man in a rai raincoat walking around the offices erm |
| 8 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 9 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 10 | Only six years after Waterloo there were already 20,028 tons of steam shipping around the coasts . |
| 11 | No. it 's not a lingering sense of failure that leaves a player hanging around the fringes of the game , or not entirely anyhow , it is a sense of loss as the private world of a county cricket club is left , as the dreams of youth , partially realised , are broken , and the unsteady step towards a different life begins . |
| 12 | Unfortunately she 's better at fixing sick engines than sick people and spends most of her time riding around the corridors on her collection of motorbikes . ’ |