Example sentences of "around the island " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll be able to bask in the sun , visit some of the hundreds of palm-fringed coves around the island , or participate in excellent watersports . |
| 2 | It hurls itself around the island and in seconds the sea is alive , ugly waves crashing over the boats , white horses flicking over the surface on the hooves of the wind . |
| 3 | The bats just decided to smash me around the island , and for every bag of boundaries they hit they then made a mistake . |
| 4 | Dolphins and small whales have also been hunted in the Caribbean for many years , especially around the island of St Vincent . |
| 5 | Take a trip around the island by day and discover small restaurants tucked away in amongst the hills and valleys ; follow the bumpy sandy tracks to tiny secluded beaches , almost empty apart from a small bar or café serving ice cold sangria and the snacks the Spanish call ‘ tapas ’ . |
| 6 | By day we 'll offer to show you around the island or let you laze by the pool — the choice is yours . |
| 7 | During these years there had been routine protests in places like the United Nations , which France ignored , and around the island of Moruroa itself involving the Greenpeace organisation . |
| 8 | ENGLISH GIRL ( walking around the island as if she 's lost something important ) : I left my camera in Ecuador . |
| 9 | My last day , I walk right around the island . |
| 10 | So was it very surprising that I picked up on the African presence moving around the island ? |
| 11 | There are beaches of rounded grey basalt pebbles of varying sizes elsewhere around the island . |
| 12 | According to soundings made in the surrounding ocean , there are some very deep ocean trenches in the sea around the island . |
| 13 | There are also ideas and schemes to purchase and renovate many of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century quintas around the island and to re-open them as small hotels . |
| 14 | There is a coffee bar here and women selling embroidery and woollens line the path to the viewpoint — for all that they are at a good tourist point , the prices here and at other such places around the island usually remain reasonable . |
| 15 | Toughening their endurance by frequent climbs to nearly 3,000 feet ( 900m ) up the crags of Goat Fell on Arran they saw , when it was not raining — a rare occasion in west Scotland — Lieutenant Roger Courtney at sea , training his canoeists around the island 's choppy waters where a short sharp sea comes up with little warning . |
| 16 | As the submarine nosed around the island 's waters for three days , often making one and a half knots or less , there were a number of unanswered questions . |
| 17 | ‘ Captain Robins drove me around the island last night , ’ I said . |
| 18 | At least one set of potential buyers , from Holland , has been helicoptered on to Eigg to be shown around the island . |
| 19 | All the forces of Chaos were brought to bear , and the mightiest sorcerers of the Chaos army set to work to breach the spell-walls around the island . |
| 20 | The figurines come from a number of important sites around the island , some excavated in the 1960s by Professor Christos Doumas . |
| 21 | ‘ There are dangerous rocks around the island , ’ explained Tony . |
| 22 | ‘ You can ride Smoke around the island , if you like . ’ |
| 23 | I enjoyed riding and Smoke knew his way around the island very well . |
| 24 | He 'd met Elaine on several trips around the island which Christina had arranged , including a hilarious afternoon when the three of them decided to try out the hotel 's water sports and attempted to learn to water-ski after too many rum sours at the Reef Bar . |
| 25 | I began to move more freely around the island again , and built myself a third house . |
| 26 | Ben , in his lonely walks around the island , had found the skeleton and found the treasure . |
| 27 | Breeding areas include the Bellingshausen Sea , Scotia Sea , and rich , disturbed waters around the island of the Scotia Arc . |
| 28 | If true , this would have implied either that the police had knowingly allowed a car that they thought was full of explosives to drive into and around the island , or that they were aware throughout the operation that the car was not dangerous . |
| 29 | Scooter hire ( check your insurance cover ! ) and small motor boat hire are available , as well as boat trips to Anti-Paxos or around the island . |
| 30 | A footpath system runs around the island and we are anxious that visitors stick to the pathways in order to preserve the fragile environment in which the birds live . |