Example sentences of "around the town " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hypocrisy , the tribute paid to the establishment by non-conformity , could no longer flourish in a society overwhelmingly if not always profoundly Christianized , at least in and around the towns , and in the central provinces of the empire . |
| 2 | Around the towns , but more particularly the small rural communities in Sussex , the Saxon monarchs built a careful legal and local government structure , reinforcing the social hierarchies but carefully giving each man rights and dues according to his place . |
| 3 | Although there are few Sussex equivalents to the great wool churches elsewhere , the wealthier endowed chantries in a number of churches for saying masses for the dead , or funded the numerous leper hospitals and almshouses around the towns . |
| 4 | The rug-making industry is based around the towns of Srinagar , Amritsar , Jaipur , Agra , Bhadohi , Mirzapur , Khamariah and Ellora ( in order of general quality ) . |
| 5 | If you look around the towns and cities of Britain , you will find the same story , be it steel plants , those vast chemical plants , the big engineering works , they scarcely exist any more and if they still are there , they 've shrunk to a tiny part of their earlier size . |
| 6 | The three Craigavon councillors will wing their way to the deep south and take a trip around the towns of Macon ( Georgia ) , Knoxville ( Tennessee ) and Huntsville ( Alabama ) . |
| 7 | Champagne is a designation used only for sparkling wine produced in the limited area of Northern France around the towns of Reims and Epernay . |
| 8 | On April 12 there were reports of heavy fighting between Kurdish and government troops equipped with helicopter gunships , tanks and long-range artillery , around the towns of Salahuddin , Kore , Zakho and Arbil . |
| 9 | A Sierra Leonean dissident leader , Foday Sankoh and his followers were believed to be siding with the Liberian guerrillas loyal to Charles Taylor [ see also this page ] with the shared aim of seizing control of mineral-rich areas close to the Liberian border around the towns of Pujehun , Kenema , Segbwema and Bo . |
| 10 | There were fears , however , that this would merely give the JNA time to regroup around the towns of Vukovar and Vinkovci ( eastern Croatia ) . |
| 11 | Fighting was concentrated around the towns of Bosanski Brod in the north and Neum in the south . |
| 12 | Forces of the rebel Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) which remained under the command of Col. John Garang continued to hold the area around the towns of Torit and Kapoeta , in the south of Equatoria state . |
| 13 | Once it must have been a familiar sight in Cheltenham ; now the horse drawn carriage looks a little out of place among the busy traffic , snaking it 's way around the towns one-way system . |
| 14 | The Brigade Major informed me that the Brigadier 's party would be in the restaurant for at least one-and-a-half hours , which gives me time to look around the town . |
| 15 | As we walked around the town I witnessed several incidents as girls who had been known to have collaborated with the German forces were seized by members of the Resistance and had their hair chopped off , to the jeers and cat-calls of those standing around . |
| 16 | With a week to loaf around the town I had the luxury of time to get lost — not difficult in the souks , a vast hugger-mugger of alleys . |
| 17 | My train would not leave for over two hours , so I strolled desultorily around the town . |
| 18 | My meals came free also , at the nearby cafeteria , and I had an hour off to walk around the town . |
| 19 | The recommended muster-signal was a wooden rattle operated by some deserving unemployed person with nothing better to do than run around the town making an incredible racket , as opposed to marching on mansions with a view to burning them down . |
| 20 | What do you see ? — Posted like silent sentinels all around the town , stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries . |
| 21 | whose other duties included those of town crier and bill sticker , took him around the town for company and to assist with his bill-posting operations . |
| 22 | ‘ Deemy ’ took me around the town in a Russian jeep . |
| 23 | Rather unreasonably , I felt somewhat cheated for I had been the one to traipse around the town , forgetting all the preliminary work that others had done ! |
| 24 | There must have been a proportion of shy , bashful ones around , but they were not in evidence amongst the mob which harassed us day by day as we tried to make our way around the town on our own affairs . |
| 25 | Watch the horses on the heath , see the stallions at the famous studs around the town or visit a private training yard . |
| 26 | Bugey is one of those lost corners of France , a hilly region to the north-east of Lyon , around the town of Bellay , whose only claim to fame is that it is the birthplace of the French gastronome , Brillat-Savarin . |
| 27 | Northampton 's history goes back beyond the Romans — certainly to the Iron Age and settlements of that time can be found in and around the town . |
| 28 | Around the town centre the four medieval churches of St. Peter 's , St. Giles , St. John 's and Holy Sepulchre compliment the classical Church of All Saints which stands at the ‘ hub ’ of the town . |
| 29 | Discover fascinating facts about Northampton on our summer series of guided walks around the town with specially trained Northamptonshire Tourist Guides . |
| 30 | We pottered around the town of Aire , situated on the banks of the River Lys , and admired some of the 17th and 18th century architecture around its quaint cobbled marketplace . |