Example sentences of "around the stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | She paces dangerously around the stage claiming everything in sight , including Solor , with the naive greed of a woman indulged since childhood . |
| 2 | There is a tragic buffoon with bald pate and flowing hair ; a short , bespectacled man entering a grey and paunchy middle age ; and Gallotta himself , who patters manically around the stage , fixing the dancers with an unfocused glare , while waving his arms and muttering instructions down a microphone . |
| 3 | But in Stephen Jameson 's performance he looks like Beckett 's Pozzo or a Daily Worker cartoon of a bloated capitalist : bounced around the stage at one point like a rubber doll , he becomes a figure from a comedy of humours rather than a semi-Chekhovian fantasia . |
| 4 | Cassidy , I thought , was rather more interesting in his nightmarish salamander-prince incarnation , where he writhed around the stage in scaly green tights . |
| 5 | In the end , we were left with eleven versions of Felsenstein walking around the stage . |
| 6 | Thrusting and grinding around the stage in unison with her dancers , she made the message clear — ‘ I 'm no longer safe little Charlene ’ . |
| 7 | Off came the stylish suit and soon she was again prancing provocatively around the stage in a skimpy pink sequined bra and shorts . |
| 8 | Around the stage a large crowd , mostly of young people , sat on foldable chairs and stools ; others stood in a semicircle behind . |
| 9 | And the childsized intruder shifted in the shadows around the stage , mocking him from the darkness . |
| 10 | A non dancer by nature , he swirled around the stage in a glorious celebration of newly liberated frustration . |
| 11 | Thiercelin began to nudge through the crowd of idlers around the stage door , leaving his friend gazing stoically after him in the late evening rain . |
| 12 | He seemed to expect this , and merely abused the audience back , spitting at them , skidding over on to his arse once , and drinking and slouching around the stage as if he were in his living room . |
| 13 | The last Jackson tour saw Jennifer doing a considerable amount of running around the stage … |
| 14 | VANILLA ICE was ticketed for a fire code violation in San Antonio , Texas , after inviting fans to gather around the stage . |
| 15 | The aura of chaos is furthered by the band 's weird demeanour : each member seems to be shuffling to a different beat , while scruffy frontman Ken staggers around the stage , tugging at his hair and letting rip with bloodcurdling screams whenever the fancy takes him . |
| 16 | Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition , he neglects the art of singing into the mic , grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street . |
| 17 | There are five of them , all small , all looking 12 , all crashing around the stage of the Camden Palace ( an unlikely , and certainly untypical , place to make a British debut ) like possessed battling tops . |
| 18 | Subtle lighting changes in and around the stage from magical lights are automatic , and the puppets can duck in and out of the curtained-off side-booths to change costumes . |
| 19 | Clad in a white boiler suit , Barry takes his keyboard off the stand , bangs it gently ( ! ) on the floor , then puts it back before one of his customary jives around the stage , whistle in mouth . |
| 20 | ‘ Me And Bobby McGee ’ , already a low key song , is delivered virtually soporific , Jerry Garcia moving gently around the stage to conserve energy . |
| 21 | Everyone thought there 'd be a roar of ribald laughter at that line if Puck happened to be hopping around the stage in plaster at the time . ’ |
| 22 | The fairy lights were on and a machine was belting out smoke two frail pure white eight year old coach men stumbled out onto stage desperately trying to heave a massive structure around the stage , containing one very beautiful princess who seemed very heavy indeed . |
| 23 | He had cheered up when told he was going to have a plastic sword , a cardboard helmet and the chance to run around the stage hitting the Husayn twins . |
| 24 | He walked around the stage , perfecting his stunts , or just slept in his dressing-room or paced the empty corridors . |
| 25 | Clad in a white boiler suit , Barry takes his keyboard off the stand , bangs it gently ( ! ) on the floor , then puts it back before one of his customary jives around the stage , whistle in mouth . |
| 26 | ‘ Me And Bobby McGee ’ , already a low key song , is delivered virtually soporific , Jerry Garcia moving gently around the stage to conserve energy . |
| 27 | They reinstated the waltz with Gesner and it was observed that it was Therese who was the light , lithe dancer , whirling around the stage , pulling Gesner with her , making him dance in spite of himself . |
| 28 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |
| 29 | As the show is brought up to performance night , 100 people can be scrambling around the stage . |
| 30 | Many of the instrumental numbers were so relaxed , they looked like they were amusing themselves at a family party and when Harry told everyone to stand up as he bopped around the stage in his black silk suit , everyone did as they were told . |