Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pointed to the young dancers weaving intricate patterns around the stiff men in dark suits . |
| 2 | It was all a fuss about nothing , another example of the national genius for weaving intricate variations around the simplest event . |
| 3 | The new obsession with trendy design was indulged in by scattering diamond-shaped symbols around the pages . |
| 4 | There is no doubt in my mind that the many years spent wrestling indifferent cars around the track , trying to make up for what Lauda calls the ‘ evil ’ that dwells in all of them , must take its toll . |
| 5 | The automobile has turned the city inside out , ranging new communities around the periphery and letting the centre rot : not far from the centre is an old slum district where the gangs operate . |
| 6 | ACRI and Cray will convert applications for both companies ' parallel computer systems — Cray is also designing parallel machines around the Alpha RISC . |
| 7 | Advanced Computer Research — ACRI — and Cray will also collaborate to convert and optimise applications codes on both companies ' parallel computer systems — Cray is also designing parallel machines around the Alpha RISC . |
| 8 | Senior hospital caterer Jimmy Kikozi said : ‘ I have nothing to say about their food , but I imagine we will now see people wearing happy hats around the place . |
| 9 | Scrolling through documents is noticeably faster , but the main boost is noticed when moving big chunks around the screen — grabbing a window and shifting it results in a much faster update than you would see with a bog standard VGA card — even a Tseng Labs ET4000 chip set unit ( the ET4000 chipset is probably the fastest of the non-accelerated chipsets ) . |
| 10 | The added advantage for parents is that they can listen to audio tapes in the car on their way to work or as a background while they are busy doing other things around the house . |
| 11 | Hilary batted with style , in the manner of a latter-day Raffles , distributing possible catches around the lawn . |
| 12 | Endill kept finding empty bottles around the house . |
| 13 | Playing open chords around the bottom frets feels fine ; the top two strings have been left a little high at the nut , but the E , A , D and G are perfect . |
| 14 | Bob Busby is still busy at his bulletin board , rearranging old notices around the new one , like a fussy gardener tidying a flower bed . |
| 15 | And still to come is Replay Theatre Company , with its current production ‘ The Zoo Story ’ , which has been touring special schools around the province . |
| 16 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 17 | The other two squads had further to go in attacking similar installations around the northern or inner caisson . |
| 18 | The mixed doubles is another throwback to a different age , with the men and women now spending most of their careers following separate paths around the world . |
| 19 | Following worldwide use of the oral vaccine , 's time was largely taken up in visiting various countries around the world and action as an adviser to the polio vaccination programme . |