Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | To hide what could be an eyesore , Ken has built a housing around the water butt and bath that has echoes of the tea house without being obviously Japanese . |
| 2 | She 'll have to find a path around it either north or south and there 's no path except the ride . ’ |
| 3 | And , to mix a metaphor , France 's lame ducks may have become an albatross around his neck . |
| 4 | And in her condition there was no way that she could have tied the rope around the beam , claimed prosecuting counsel , Rodney Klevan , QC . |
| 5 | The typical known user had been smoking heroin daily for about one to three years , having started the habit around the age of 16–18 , and was using 0.25–0.5 gram of heroin per day ( costing between 20 and 35 ) at the time of agency contact . |
| 6 | She could feel the words buzz through her flesh , starting at her neck and travelling downwards , until her whole body seemed to burn internally with a heat that could have flashed the water around them to steam . |
| 7 | He did n't measure up to Jones , the affair lacked the romance of having to follow a man around the world — perhaps even the bitter-sweet romance of uncertainty . ’ |
| 8 | It was bad enough having to make a detour around Page Street without . |
| 9 | The Gulf crisis was estimated to have cost the economy around US$700 million . |
| 10 | The Arches exhibition organisers had placed a dinosaur around a corner and asked them to deal with it . |
| 11 | I understood how much Braque had absorbed the countryside around him . |
| 12 | But surely you 've built the band around you like that , so that you 're the only one who makes the decisions ? |
| 13 | Scenes from the evening flashed before her eyes : the dignity of the old man to whom Ludovico had gently presented her and with whom she had performed a stately dance , delicately held in his wizened old arms ; the young men who had made a ring around her and Ludo before lifting them on to their shoulders and carrying them back to Santo Spirito ; the women who had caressed her blonde hair and whispered , ‘ Bella ! |
| 14 | These mothers had built a cocoon around themselves and their handicapped child which , while keeping away the hurtful comments , wrapped them in with their pain . |
| 15 | Before the poor victim had a chance to scream , Mildred had tied a gag around her mouth . |
| 16 | Steve had to fix a belay around a boulder while the porters lowered barrels , bags and sacks down the rock face . |
| 17 | Watson 's party , with some of Walton 's squad , had fought a firefight around this place and had been forced northward between buildings on the basin wharf which was where their Colonel appeared . |
| 18 | Maybe or putting in erm that cable cos they 've dug a trench around it . |
| 19 | They had to make a diversion around the giant firework display in the middle of St Mark 's basin , the noise of the rockets like gunfire . |
| 20 | The oldest member of the convoy was a 1901 Thanomile trike which had to make the journey around site on a trailer because its engine had expired the previous day . |
| 21 | We have mapped the field around PSR1706–44 at 843MHz with a resolution of 44 arcsec using the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope , and have identified a shell-type SNR at a distance of about 3kpc — consistent with the distance deduced for the pulsar . |
| 22 | ‘ First they have to blast the rock around the ore body . |
| 23 | I pay tribute to the Chairmen of the Social Security Select Committee and of the Health Select Committee , who have found a way around the difficulties of operating together and have produced a more interesting report as a result . |
| 24 | We do not understand that we have become the slaves of our desire and have created a net around ourselves , by our thoughts and actions . |
| 25 | Once you have swirled the wine around your tastebuds , spit it out into a lined bucket . |