Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er you see and , and anyway I finished up my holiday and the sergeant said , he kept his promise and er sent me a report over the newspaper , you see , and er and of course and I liked the Isle of Man , you know , I went for trips around the island and various places and er , and I did see a Manx cat |
| 2 | She had a nanny , Kent-born Judith Pamell who took the infant Diana for walks around the grounds in a well-used , highly-sprung perambulator . |
| 3 | They allow leading firms continuously to adjust to the collapse of the timescales for the diffusion of products around the world ; people all over the world are increasingly aware of what others are buying . |
| 4 | On the other hand , if there were more than three spatial dimensions , the orbits of planets around the sun or electrons around a nucleus would be unstable and they would tend to spiral inward . |
| 5 | The colourful pictures were much the same , the number of PWRs around the world had increased , but there was one major difference . |
| 6 | Greatbatch and Thomson — again to the arm ball — were swept aside in the space of four deliveries , Patel chose once more to live by the sword and this time died by it , and Cairns fell meekly , to the ever-increasing cluster of fielders around the bat . |
| 7 | Top quality mattresses are also hand side-stitched — this will look like rows of dimples around the borders to hold the springs firmly in place at the edges and to strengthen the border . |
| 8 | There are , in fact , infinitely many other families of homoclinic orbits winding any number of times around the z-axis . |
| 9 | What we have is an excess of definitions around the feminine whereas men are the undefined norm . |
| 10 | It has been able to anticipate requirements of operators around the world . |
| 11 | While senior members of the party and government hold a series of meetings around the city , the Stefan the Great Movement for National Revival is holding what it calls a ‘ great gathering ’ in the main stadium . |
| 12 | Thiercelin began to nudge through the crowd of idlers around the stage door , leaving his friend gazing stoically after him in the late evening rain . |
| 13 | In another family , where both father and daughter were in the trade , there were plenty of books around the house , but the children were " not good scholars " whatever that meant . |
| 14 | There were no juke-boxes or Coke machines , but there were many shelves of books around the room and a selection of magazines and newspapers ; there were also at least a dozen chess-boards . |
| 15 | concertina cut-outs of animals around the room . |
| 16 | The town has some fascinating historical buildings , among which must be mentioned the old Town Hall with its Black Tower , the Latin school with its allegorical front , the salt house with its striking black and white shutters , the house where Pestalozzi , the Swiss educational reformer , died in 1827 , a parish church dating from 1480 , and a cluster of houses in a happy jumble of styles around the Heimatsmuseum . |
| 17 | Graduates were usually destined for mageship at least , but Rincewind — after an unfortunate event — had left knowing only one spell and made a living of sorts around the town by capitalising on an innate gift for languages . |
| 18 | Its front end projects above the surface and carries a little coronet of tentacles around the opening through which it sucks in water . |
| 19 | It has a digestive tract that ends in an anus and a group of tentacles around the mouth , enclosed within the two shell valves . |
| 20 | Although the general distribution of earthquakes around the world had been known for many years , it was only with the establishment of a comprehensive network of seismographic stations to monitor underground nuclear weapons testing in the early 1960s that a detailed global picture emerged ( Fig. 2.10 ) . |
| 21 | Last year your film correspondent , William Parente , suggested that the last real subject left for the British film industry to tackle was the Highland Clearances , a subject of relevance to the Gaels , their current political context , and to many thousands of Scots around the world . |
| 22 | ‘ Hal , you had to do something , it was n't your fault , the people were ravenous. ’ consolidated Joy , ‘ Anyway , I did n't enjoy having lots of pets around the house . ’ |
| 23 | The confidence of those words confirmed that in two and a half years Neighbours — the show which baffled the critics as its banality won millions of fans around the world — had transformed the shy diffident Kylie into an ambitious young woman . |
| 24 | The prime concern of administrators around the world is making money , not providing entertainment . |
| 25 | It gives copious detail on four cases where a total of $100m is alleged to have been misappropriated through a complex web of transactions around the world . |
| 26 | Such packages — which are repeated in scores of countries around the world — affect the poorest first , and amount to economic suicide for the governments concerned . |
| 27 | As the right hon. Gentleman knows , a number of countries around the world are in recession , are heading towards recession or are coming out of recession . |
| 28 | is just one of band of companies around the country , presenting their business plans to private investors . |
| 29 | Erm Ryedale District , as can be seen from the table supplied by Greater York , has taken the largest proportion of the Greater York housing element over the past ten years , as regards the proposed level of future housing growth suggested for the Greater York area , the District Council supports the figure in the structure plan , the Greater York study identified a number of sites around the Greater York area which could accommodate further development without compromising greenbelt objectives or adversely affecting the character of the settlements surrounding York , and within that part of Southern Ryedale within the Greater York area the identified sites were , by and large , incorporated into the Southern Ryedale local plan , which has recently been through the public enquiry , the District Council does not believe that a larger amount of land could be identified within Southern Ryedale , without compromising greenbelt objectives . |
| 30 | Pitfall traps are placed in various sorts of sites around the garden to catch ground beetles , spiders , harvestmen , woodlice , centipedes and millipedes . |