Example sentences of "was around the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another person who was around the scene at the time was Chrissie Hynde who , after Malcolm 's shop and writing for the NME , had really been scuffling around . |
| 2 | Yet I gather that Mr Muggeridge was around the school in the grounds tonight . ’ |
| 3 | The generator itself was around the back of the reception block , protected from interference or vandalism by a welded metal walk-in cage inside a lean-to shed . |
| 4 | While I was around the bus at least 8 bottle of the fizzy stuff was transported onto the team bus for consumption on the way back . |
| 5 | The drug-store , where he had breakfasted late , was around the corner on Walnut Street , a deep dim-lit room with a counter and stools midway down one side , after the racks of magazines and trinkets . |
| 6 | The man hurried on , throwing the leaflet in a waste-paper bin as soon as he was around the corner by the newspaper stand . |
| 7 | There was no motive , and Greg had no notion whether he was around the house at the time or not . |
| 8 | Armies chose these banks as suitable places for crossing the Rhine , and a particularly eventful time was around the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the next . |