Example sentences of "to [art] [noun sg] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he does this , holding on to the condom around the base avoids spilling semen or losing the condom inside the vagina or anus . |
| 2 | People had been trampled to the floor around the wheel . |
| 3 | The earliest area of crofts may have been situated on a bluff west of the church , while an extended area was later laid out to the north around a triangular green , with an earlier Norman manor house going out of use at the same time . |
| 4 | The term ‘ palace ’ originally referred to the gathering around the king , rather than an actual building . |
| 5 | Terra Sigillata ware , including lamps , now date an early alteration to the palace around the year nought , placing it well within the possibility of identification as the Herodian palace described by Josephus , the Jewish historian ( 37–100 AD ) , together with the city of Caeserea , its great harbour , temple to Augustus the Emperor , and theatre . |
| 6 | He tries to confine his searching to the area around the nest , presumably so that he can keep an eye on his partner . |
| 7 | For example , the Dalradian succession in Scotland was chosen for attention by the MRP because it included the stratiform ‘ pyrite belt ’ similar to the area around the economic Stekenjokk Cu-Zn-Pb deposit in Sweden . |
| 8 | He returned his glance to the area around the body . |
| 9 | The intra-Christian fighting of the first half of 1990 did not result in any tangible changes in territorial control over the enclave ; the LF maintained control of Jounieh and Jubail areas to the north of Beirut as well as the East Beirut quarters of Ashrafieh and Karantina , while Aoun held on to the area around the Baabda Presidential palace , where he himself was based , and around Ras al Metn and the southern entrances to East Beirut . |
| 10 | Forces opposed to the President had been in control of much of the country for several months [ see pp. 37702-03 ; 37767-68 ; 37844-45 ] , with the central government 's authority largely confined to the area around the capital . |
| 11 | As sweetners to gain planning permission they 've also proposed part funding for a sailing centre and to pay forimprovements to the area around the lake . |
| 12 | On the night of 15–16 May , the leading Section of this fighting patrol , their faces blackened from native cooking-pot soot , crept up to the wire around the port . |
| 13 | Caspar , sending a worried glance to the group around the fire , heard Fenella describing something called Renascia ; Twilight Mountains and Seasons with different colours . |
| 14 | It would no doubt have been quite attractive in fine weather , and the same applied to the countryside around the hotel , an imposing pile by Nightmare Abbey out of a Scotch baronial shooting lodge . |
| 15 | Sloth faeces , estimated to contain half the leaf material , are returned to the ground around the trees : the three-toed sloth actually buries them ! |
| 16 | Calls were made to every ally around the world . |
| 17 | Star of the show is the Vulcan and viewers are treated to a tour around the cockpit with S/L Paul Millikin . |
| 18 | We also talked about the new settlement being self-contained and integrated , but came I think to a consensus around the table that the level of employment provision in the new settlement should be related to the level of employment supply in the new settlement as opposed to a level of employment which would satisfy employment needs |
| 19 | They stand in a cluster next to a stream around an open space , for which the term ‘ village green ’ would be too grand . |
| 20 | The tower was converted to a house around the turn of the century and has been lived in ever since apart from a couple of years when architects used it as offices . |