Example sentences of "was [verb] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all they wanted it to do was to go around the corner to Marygate for the winter and then we s got the same in the spring to bring it back , but by that time the python was a lot bigger . |
| 2 | Two days he was hanging around the place . |
| 3 | I 'd gone into Woolworth 's in Reading and stolen a couple of things from there , and I was hanging around the car park . |
| 4 | ‘ What 's more , he was hanging around the cake display , looking rather shifty , if you ask me . ’ |
| 5 | One day she was hanging around the shop when Nick Kent followed her in , angry . |
| 6 | The brown canvas delivery sack was hidden around the corner on a stone shelf , several inches above the rotten humus that blocked the culvert . |
| 7 | Thomasina at this time was fussing around the table . |
| 8 | Second-hand machinery was scattered around the yard with new parts and modifications arriving daily . |
| 9 | About twelve months later , I was walking around the Dingle and saw this chap coming down the road , brand new suit and all the rest of it , with his wife and kid . |
| 10 | The night I arrived I was walking around the streets on my own looking for work . |
| 11 | In March , on a visit to Leatherhead , I was walking around the JS branch when I saw an old customer . |
| 12 | One minute he was embracing her , kissing her passionately , and now he was leaping around the bedroom like a young gallant , getting ready to get out . |
| 13 | Heavy fighting was reported around the cities of Shaqlawa and Sulaimaniya on April 13 in which 150 government troops were said to have been killed . |
| 14 | The first of the IBM PCs was designed around the Intel 8088 processor , an eight bit device which ran at a clock speed of 4.77MHz ( we 'll cover clock speeds a little later ) . |
| 15 | They were under no illusions that they could do a better job from Detroit , but they had become increasingly concerned that they were getting out of touch with what was happening around the world , and that the tail was beginning to wag the dog . |
| 16 | Precisely the same thing was happening around the Lancashire towns also , where the ancient commons were enclosed and grabbed by the private speculator for building , as at Oldham . |
| 17 | The meal was organised around the char which had been caught that afternoon , and Hope was touched at the extravagant praise lobbed his way for the provision of the excellent fish . |
| 18 | Pearson made no fewer than eight quota films in one year at Julius Hagen 's Twickenham Studios , where one small stage was occupied around the clock , and pictures that had been scripted in a fortnight were filmed in another two weeks . |
| 19 | The method used to spin both types was the same , a short whip of string or leather about eighteen inches in length was wound around the top which was then placed upright on the ground and steadied with one finger . |
| 20 | Lerissa had weighed anchor ( breaking a 56lb Danforth in the process , her owner told me next day ) and was wandering around the anchorage looking for a new parking place . |
| 21 | Everyone was wandering around the house getting everything ready for my uncle who had come over from Nigeria . |
| 22 | A butterfly was flapping around the wheelbarrow looking for a fragrance to match the colour of that great metallic flower . |
| 23 | Controlling the way her image was seen around the world ensured that Kylie made the most of her success as her face became familiar all across the globe . |
| 24 | So I was looking around the Beckenham and Bromley area when I found this place called Haddon Hall which was an amazing property . |
| 25 | Something was forming around the Bridge : a new Lift . |
| 26 | However until a site was found at Crich in 1959 , 45 was moved around the country , at one time being displayed at the Montagu Motor Museum in Hampshire . |
| 27 | One of the chief glories of this house is that it has been little altered since it was built around the middle of the sixteenth century . |
| 28 | The little Spring Mill was built around the middle of the 19th century . |
| 29 | It was built around the year 1800 at the crossing point of the brook and the Grand Union canal , which it carries above it . |
| 30 | Sinn Fein 's success was built around the pledge that , if elected , they would refuse to take up their seats in Westminster and set up a separate Irish parliament instead . |