Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whitby is worth minor discomfort , however , and we quickly clambered down the 199 steps and strolled around the endlessly fascinating harbour and backstreets . |
| 2 | After mopping up the mess-tin with a large piece of French bread that had accompanied the stew , I got to my feet and looked around the barn . |
| 3 | Corbett struggled to his feet and stared around the hall where the rest of the sleepers there were slowly rising to their feet , some nursing sore heads , others bawling for wine and food . |
| 4 | As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral . |
| 5 | He bared well-shaped lips over handsome teeth and smiled around the table . |
| 6 | I climbed over the dead bodies and looked around the washroom ; my eyes had grown used to the dim red emergency lights by now . |
| 7 | The old order changeth , and how — back at the end of the 1970s , Ted Dexter and Honeywell Information Systems Ltd got together to propose to the British Broadcasting Corporation that television coverage of cricket could be enhanced with a little judicious computer intervention and the age of computer-aided sports broadcasting was born : for a decade and more a Level 6 minicomputer or successor followed the cameras and trundled around the cricket grounds of England and Wales in the back of a truck as Honeywell and successor company Bull HN Information Systems Ltd maintained the tradition — but with the first one-day match of the current series against Australia at Old Trafford yesterday , what was the legend at the bottom of the caption but ‘ Intel processing ’ . |
| 8 | He then dressed in her clothes and paraded around the campus for hours until he was arrested . |
| 9 | While attempting to deliver a lecture on " guidance for student life " , Chung was seized by some 500 students and dragged around the campus for 30 minutes , during which time he was kicked , punched and pelted with eggs and flour . |