Example sentences of "around the town " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My train would not leave for over two hours , so I strolled desultorily around the town . |
| 5 | My meals came free also , at the nearby cafeteria , and I had an hour off to walk around the town . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What do you see ? — Posted like silent sentinels all around the town , stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Deemy ’ took me around the town in a Russian jeep . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Watch the horses on the heath , see the stallions at the famous studs around the town or visit a private training yard . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Discover fascinating facts about Northampton on our summer series of guided walks around the town with specially trained Northamptonshire Tourist Guides . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In newer areas one would expect main roads to form boundaries , yet residential areas in the past were often arranged around the town centre along major roads , so that in older areas a distributor with shops on either side may even form the centre of a residential district . |
| 19 | The waits performed the bull tune in the period surrounding the bull festival and were closely associated with the bellman , who would walk around the town between midnight and two in the morning on the days when the waits were not playing . |
| 20 | He had to compensate for the waste of a visit with his encounters , and with the countryside around the town , the haystacks , the brown earth speckled with whitish spots where the mark showed , so unlike the black earth of Holland . |
| 21 | That summer I could only think he was mad as he set off around the town and I dozed in the dark heat and stillness of the garden . |
| 22 | The link road , which would go through open countryside and bisect Sudbury 's riverside water meadows , forms part of a £20 million package along with a western by-pass around the town . |
| 23 | The link road , which would go through open countryside and bisect Sudbury 's riverside water meadows , forms part of a £20 million package along with a western by-pass around the town . |
| 24 | The Liverpool Crosby and Southport Railway , West Lancashire Railway , East Lancashire Railway , Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway each built their own depots at various sites around the town . |
| 25 | There are many interesting walks around the town and on the Dales and it is also possible to take a mini-bus tour from Middleham of the popular areas of Wensleydale and Swaledale , with a local resident acting as guide . |
| 26 | They have settled in sprawling camps around the town , building rickety wooden huts covered with brown paper from the defunct local paper mill . |
| 27 | There were no small industries around the town , so few working mothers , so no call for the baby minding she had grown accustomed to . |
| 28 | After lunch we walked around the town and marvelled at the prices which were being asked for some of the antique furniture . |
| 29 | One does it , one of the things that eh I do n't know whether it does effect you at all Chris but eh , eh Chris , is , is the fact that eh these here foreign lavatories they 've got around the town , now I 'm dead against these for a number of reasons . |
| 30 | What , what , what I would say is this , there always , there always talking about anti social behaviour around the town and as I say if people have n't got the necessary coin , it could lead to anti social behaviour , it 's as simple as that . |