Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] around [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening I decided to begin my search around the shower area . |
| 2 | I have a suspicion that my clothes-sense around the side roads of Frenchay and Stapleton shocks a few of my friends . |
| 3 | I made my way through the crowds to Farr 's in Brown Street , managed to get right up to the entrance and poke my head around the door to see what was going on . |
| 4 | Every day , I always used to stick my head around the office door and say , ‘ Anything for me today ? ’ — and one day they said , ‘ Well , we 're looking for dancers for the BBC 's production of Pistol Shot ( which was a play by Chekhov ) — maybe you 'd like to do it and choreograph it and use some of your students ? ’ |
| 5 | I could n't quite get my head around the fact that this vast underground world existed , going on and on underground with chambers , tunnels , streams and pools , all underneath hills , roads and houses . |
| 6 | OK , educate the child , educate the dog , but I could never let a child of mine walk around a ring with a big , powerful dog like that , because it is a big , powerful vicious beast . |
| 7 | M. Dupont resumed his conversation and I continued my way around the room for some moments . |
| 8 | Seeking to remedy this sad state of affairs , I browsed my way around the bookshop from floor to floor , upstairs and down and in and out of little book-filled rooms that the owners themselves may have forgotten about . |
| 9 | It 's almost 17 years since I was last hauled up a mountainside with a metal bar across my bum , two poles in one hand and my arm around the anorak of an unknown Austrian whose only English was ‘ Bend ze knees ’ and ‘ Open ze legs ’ . |
| 10 | She played in the women 's basketball and used to ride her bike around the university . |
| 11 | And it evinces a rather daring readiness to weave its fiction around the world of work , where private lives are inextricably bound up with talk of profit margins and raw materials . |
| 12 | The Manport reached my ship 's airlock and clamped on , with puffs of a vapour as it formed its insta-seal around the join . |
| 13 | Just when Tod has established our relationship with Irene on a secure footing , the kind of set-up that any sane man would kill for , with her punctual visits and affectionate phone calls , the movies we enjoy together , the fine dining , the peace and safety ( the forgiveness ) that her presence confers , plus the exquisitely torpid lovemaking which takes place right on the button every couple of months or so , and reaching the stage , now , where I think we can tackle her , gently but firmly , about her untidiness around the house , because it 's best to get these things out in the open , not to let them rankle and fester , and so on-guess what . |
| 14 | Other factors can alter the Earth 's climate from millennium to millennium and decade to decade , including slight changes in its orbit around the Sun , and the effects of greenhouse are superimposed on these other factors . |
| 15 | In particular , it was believed that the speed of light ought to change as the earth moves through the ether on its orbit around the sun . |
| 16 | Because of the way that the Moon moves in its orbit around the Earth , its place of rising on the horizon varies a little , each night moving a tiny amount further north until its position of rising seems to come to a halt ( a standstill ) before moving back southwards again . |
| 17 | Astronomically , this is because as the Earth moves around on its axis every 24 hours , the Moon during the day and night moves through one-thirtieth of its orbit around the Earth . |
| 18 | She ran her forefinger around the inside of the white pyrex bowl and said nothing . |
| 19 | His eyes glazed with grim courage uncharacteristic of his kind , his broad hands tightened their grip around the cleaver . |
| 20 | She was able to talk about herself in a more positive way , and this she attributed to having felt useful and capable when helping her sister-in-law around the house . |
| 21 | Within a few days she seemed very accepting of the situation , almost enjoying not having her husband around the house . |
| 22 | But more and more lucky people will be able to plan their retirement around the cash their parents leave them . |
| 23 | Ace poked her head around the stone with the idea of following , but covering fire from Richmann blasted chunks from the stone and forced her to duck back again . |
| 24 | The owner of the Home may pop her head around the door and say , ‘ I 'm going into the town today , can I do anything for you ? . ’ |
| 25 | The children were watching TV peacefully , but Annie saw her as she bobbed her head around the door , gave a pleased gurgle and started to scramble down . |
| 26 | Wendy put her head around the door . |
| 27 | Even with the credibility and power of the National Gallery 's support , the Barnes Foundation faces additional legal challenges if it ever hopes to take part of its collection around the world . |
| 28 | My stomach curls its tongue around the food and smiles . |
| 29 | She was crooking her finger around a cup of Earl Grey . |
| 30 | It seems that , while she was married to Earl Spencer , she regularly had her lunch and her tea in one of her silk and antique negligees , gave orders that because the noise might disturb her , no-one should flush the loo before noon when she got up , and was forever tracing her finger around the furniture to make sure the servants had dusted properly . |