Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] around a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked awkward , but not heavy , unless you take into account the fact that this linoleum was rolled around a fifty pound salmon . |
| 2 | His round was made around a run of five 3s from the second to the sixth holes — that brought him to two under for the championship . |
| 3 | I suppose I half-hoped that he would zap me with extinction the way he had zapped June with orgasm the night before but his horrible middle finger was folded around a reeking cheroot and showed no sign of flexing . |
| 4 | The search space was organised around a global uniform data-base , the blackboard , and so different configurations of knowledge bases could easily be tested . |
| 5 | The budget was based around a forecast of zero growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1992 , after a 5 per cent GDP reduction in the severe recession in 1991 . |
| 6 | A black leather suite was arranged around a white marble fireplace standing starkly against slate-grey walls and carpet . |
| 7 | This impetus was centred around an urban renewal policy that — along with explicitly segregationist policies in federal public housing — cut off minority communities , displaced large sections of these communities and concentrated them between expressways , office complexes , stadiums and civic centers . |
| 8 | We know at Wharram Percy in Yorkshire , for example , that the medieval village was fitted into a prehistoric and Roman field system ( Fig.30 ) , and at Hound Tor on Dartmoor the medieval hamlet was built around a Bronze Age settlement and its fields ( Fig. 47 ) . |