Example sentences of "around the village " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finest rice in all China used to be grown in fields around the village of Shatin , in Hong Kong 's New Territories . |
| 2 | Reports from the Commando units around the village told of determined German counter attacks during the night with many casualties . |
| 3 | There had been several German counter attacks on the Commando positions around the village during the past three days . |
| 4 | The other Commando units were spread around the village in a very tight perimeter , and in places very close to the German positions . |
| 5 | If the Brigade was still around the village and things got a bit quieter I would keep that date , and treat them to British steak and kidney , etc . |
| 6 | As Taff started to cook the first half-dozen eggs I went along the road that ran around the village and passed near to the orchard . |
| 7 | As I expected , the jeeps were now arriving with the Commando dead and wounded from the areas around the village . |
| 8 | You can be just as dead in this orchard as in any other around the village . |
| 9 | In the semi-darkness the houses around the village and the church in the centre of the green stood out like monuments with their shadows changing their shapes from time to time as a cloud obscured part of the moon . |
| 10 | I recognised Officers from the Commando units around the village . |
| 11 | As I was leaving the house Pat shouted after me , ‘ Piper , your friend Taff who shares the trench with you in the orchard has been transferred to one of the Commando units around the village . |
| 12 | I returned to the orchard to say goodbye to Taff before he left to join one of the Commando units around the village . |
| 13 | The capture of the village yesterday evening did not make much difference to our situation in and around the village . |
| 14 | The heavy attacks on the Commando positions around the village and the counter attacks that followed have now faded away since the attack on Breville on the night of 12th June . |
| 15 | Judging by the number of dead Germans in front of the Commando positions around the village , it 's not surprising that they had stopped their frontal attacks . |
| 16 | Seventeenth July — I joined about 20 Commandos from the various units around the village on a trip to a quiet part of the beach a few miles from our front-line positions . |
| 17 | As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village . |
| 18 | Reluctantly , Miles formed his men into a thin line around the village , and the assault degenerated into a siege . |
| 19 | All around the village are wonderful mountain meadows , filled with alpine flowers . |
| 20 | There are several delightful marked walks through the fields and woods around the village ( free guided walks are organised by the Tourist Office ) while a cable car ride will take you to the summit of the dramatic Patscherkofel , where there is some splendid hiking terrain , and a viewing platform giving stunning views over Innsbruck and the Inn Valley . |
| 21 | There are plenty of opportunities for cycling around the village . |
| 22 | There are plenty of opportunities for cycling around the village . |
| 23 | Based in Gloucestershire , the organization had formed after a series of childhood leukaemia cases was discovered in and around the village of Lydney , directly across the Severn Estuary from the nuclear power station at Berkeley . |
| 24 | A small , but thriving , woollen industry existed around the village then . |
| 25 | Copies were available for signing in Holybourne Post Office and Stores for a week , and in the evenings petition organiser Alexis Gilmour canvassed around the village . |
| 26 | At Loreto , we spent three days exploring the network of muddy paths through the forest around the village , crossing small streams on logs and one larger river on a suspension bridge which consisted of four rusting steel cables and a few loose planks . |
| 27 | Tennants had lived in and around the village for many generations and had served the small community as farmers , millers and blacksmiths . |
| 28 | But most of the time she ignored the dogs that hovered around her as she slept in the sun or beavered around the village in pursuit of this or that scent . |
| 29 | With lots of help from around the village and many professional backstage touches as well as performances , the three performances were a sell-out success . |
| 30 | Life down on the farm is kiddie-sized in Niedersachen , German , where Thorsten , Manuela and Kornnelia Pape have been treated to a mini tractor by their father Klaus , who farms land around the village . |