Example sentences of "and [verb] around [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opened the little back gate and peered around in the dark for the shelter . |
| 2 | Well yes , but I mean it 's she seems to do the opposite thing to Charlotte , cos she used to sleep in the morning and fidget around in the afternoons and this one fidgets all morning and then sleeps in the afternoon . |
| 3 | The Gulf War , like a knife , cut the string , and the beads are dropping and bouncing around on the ground . |
| 4 | The charge is that he allowed domestic inflation to get out of control and messed around with the exchange rate when he should have been applying the monetarist remedy . |
| 5 | ‘ A case for galoshes , ’ remarked the Substitute , tossing a cigar end out of the jeep and looking around at the steam rising slowly from the wet earth . |
| 6 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
| 7 | With higher power , you need more light , so bigger lenses — so try 8x30 , 8x40 , 10x40 or 10x50 at a good store , and shop around for the best price . |
| 8 | The former were blindfolded , and turned around on the spot to scramble their sense of direction . |
| 9 | He began to tidy it up and look around for the plastic bag . |
| 10 | ‘ At Elland Road I was expected to go and win the ball and that was about all they liked ! ! — get the ball up to the big front men and look around for the knock downs ’ ( Batts obviously did nt look very hard cos he did nt find many ! ! ) |
| 11 | So there was always a bottle of Reisling and a guitar , his Japanese kimono and him staying in bed , looking out of the window at the wolves chasing the train as we went through Siberia in the snow , whereas Geoffrey McCormack ( or Warren Peace as he was known professionally ) and I would get off at nearly every stop if we were awake , and run around on the platform . |
| 12 | Once I was able to escape from my orange box and ferret around among the other barrows , I quickly discovered that he was reckoned by the locals to be the finest trader in the East End . |
| 13 | Dr Sasaki shouted the name of the chief surgeon and rushed around to the man 's office and found him terribly cut by glass . |
| 14 | And it certainly does the heart and lungs and it certainly has erm that feeling that you can wriggle and move around in the water , so it certainly gives you this feeling of agility as well . |
| 15 | She took it outside into the wood and walked around under the trees . |
| 16 | I slipped away before the encores and hung around in the courtyard outside the Sheldonian until the Kraemers emerged . |
| 17 | Nomes scurried down the plank and milled around on the road below , uncertain whether to run or stay . |
| 18 | All they needed was the proof , and when a photographer hired by a down-market Sunday newspaper caught the Princess of Wales emerging from her friend Kate Menzies 's mews house during the early hours of the morning with David Waterhouse , and fooling around in the quiet road , they thought they had it . |
| 19 | They tend to see people as unthinking dupes who arc simply pushed and pulled around by the needs of capital . |
| 20 | TWO little princesses laugh and shout as they are tossed in the air and splash around in the pool with their mother 's handsome friend with the funny accent . |
| 21 | We carry on to the old Jewish quarter ( Josefov ) and continue around to the E through the former Jewish ghetto , skirting the Old Town Square . |
| 22 | There was a girl at work who said she loved the rain — she would dress up in a mac and goloshes and tramp around in the rain just for pleasure . |
| 23 | I think that if Jesus stood in your school and looked around at the crowds he would feel exactly the same . |
| 24 | She tossed her head and looked around at the congregation . |
| 25 | At break I was on duty in the corridor telling people to get out and go around to the canteen not through the school . |
| 26 | Owen slipped his hand in again and felt around on the floor . |
| 27 | Chola stooped and felt around inside the coop for eggs . |
| 28 | He went over to a flowerbed and felt around in the mud . |
| 29 | As Howard got out and went around to the other side of the car , the Doctor slid over , and examined the rudimentary dashboard . |
| 30 | They left the woods and went around by the neighbouring fields — ‘ blind ’ country where the ditches and drains were all concealed in coarse , overgrown grass . |