Example sentences of "a circle around " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a square or round table they can be arranged in a circle around a group of tall candles or a bowl of fruit . |
| 2 | Kvallposten , an evening newspaper in Malmo , reported that a diary belonging to Mr Talb which was seized during police searches shows December 21 1988 — the day on which PanAm 103 blew up — with a circle around it . |
| 3 | I decided to take the bus to Strandhill , on Sligo Bay , and follow the road in a circle around Queen Maeve 's hill of Knocknarea . |
| 4 | The threshing floors lay bare , pale , trodden and packed down in a circle around the post where the oxen had circled . |
| 5 | Kalchu , Chola and the children were eating , sitting in a circle around the empty hearth — a pit in the earth surrounded by stones . |
| 6 | Making a circle around myself by punching anyone near me |
| 7 | But it is possible to draw so tight a circle around an enlightened few that the picture becomes distorted in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | For a high-tea or supper meal spread smoked haddock paste on fingers of hot toast and arrange them in a circle around a dish of scrambled eggs . |
| 9 | In front of the building is a row of white-painted stones and some cactus-like sisal plants forming a circle around a patch of grass . |
| 10 | He denied the Aristotelian claim that all motion requires a cause and in its place proposed a circular law of inertia , according to which a moving object subject to no forces will move indefinitely in a circle around the earth at uniform speed . |
| 11 | She allowed it to fall in a circle around her feet , and slipped her khaki shirt off over her head . |
| 12 | He undressed her with care ; slipping the loose silk dress from her shoulders , and helping it down her slim body until it fell in a circle around her feet . |
| 13 | The earth is trying to move on a straight line through space-time , but the curvature of space-time produced by the mass of the sun causes it to go in a circle around the sun . |
| 14 | The grass of the lawn is green in a circle around a sprinkler ( not turned on ) and in a smaller patch around a longstanding leak in the hose ; the rest is brown grass or bare , cracked earth . |
| 15 | I hope this little titbit of news about the crews that were formed and especially the ones of Rivetus because that is what you 're writing about , since he was the only one back from the Hundredth Bomb Group but how well we knew him in training since the two crews trained together and of course the flying part of it and myself have coordinated our flying with our co-pilots , we used to , just the two of us go up , and we would actually fly a circle around one plane over another , so one plane was and the other plane would fly circles around it and keeping up with it and this calls for close teamwork between the pilot and the co-pilot because as you 're keen and went into view and and then of course we switched roles and I would become the leader and he 'd fly circles around me , training with his co-pilot . |
| 16 | In the figure the curvature in the section shown is whilst the orthogonal line in the surface ( a circle around the axis of symmetry ) has curvature . |
| 17 | In groups , ( for our next game ) we all formed a circle around one person blindfolded . |
| 18 | But with eight big truckers forming a circle around them they soon decided against it . |
| 19 | Her masks made a circle around her . |