Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does n't apply , however , if you 're only offering them a small amount of food to keep them hanging around the sett for a little longer than usual . |
| 2 | ‘ Stick 'em up , ’ said I spinning around the corner and thrusting the snout of the trusty Smith and Western Railway right up the unsuspecting hooter of Johnny Dee esquire . |
| 3 | Cut the supremes of chicken into collops across the breast and arrange them overlapping around the pimiento casserole . |
| 4 | One , because they are advertised as that race and two , I see them dashing around the track . |
| 5 | Although they were still only in their teens , the two young Annamese had undergone a drastic change in appearance in the four years since the Sherman family had watched them gambolling around the cooking tent of their father , Ngo Van Loc , the hunting camp " boy " of Jacques Devraux . |
| 6 | We should n't leave them lying around the house like a tube of vitamin C. If the words come too easily to hand , we 'll use them without thought ; we wo n't be able to resist . |
| 7 | Now , you did once tell me , very very recently in fact , that you were the the father of this Council s with rather a contradiction in fact was that because I 've seen you trotting around the corridors of this er this Council and it you 're more like the baby of the Council than er than the father , but I I do bow to your superior knowledge of Councilling . |
| 8 | Commander David Tucker urged residents and visitors not to let the bombings stop them moving around the capital . |
| 9 | Benny , Ace and Petion arrived to find them milling around the door , testing it for electrification with a bayonet whose handle was securely wrapped with oilcloth . |
| 10 | And see them dancing around the bonfire |
| 11 | Even when his ankle was much improved , the fracture knitting itself together most satisfactorily , she still went and would find him hobbling around the conservatory which was raw and bright , being still too new for the vines and jasmines to have masked its bare white ribs . |
| 12 | I noticed her hanging around the bar , staring through its window , while I ate my fish and potatoes . |
| 13 | ‘ A few people remembered her riding around the district on a sit-up-and-beg bike , with her photographic equipment in the basket , ’ says Sue Furness , of Yorkshire Image , which cares for the ‘ Kruckenberg Collection . ’ . |
| 14 | Have n't you noticed it sloshing around the country ? ’ |
| 15 | After all , have you seen me moping around the place recently , getting depressed , crying ? |