Example sentences of "was [v-ing] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days he was hanging around the place . |
| 2 | I 'd gone into Woolworth 's in Reading and stolen a couple of things from there , and I was hanging around the car park . |
| 3 | ‘ What 's more , he was hanging around the cake display , looking rather shifty , if you ask me . ’ |
| 4 | One day she was hanging around the shop when Nick Kent followed her in , angry . |
| 5 | Thomasina at this time was fussing around the table . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The night I arrived I was walking around the streets on my own looking for work . |
| 8 | In March , on a visit to Leatherhead , I was walking around the JS branch when I saw an old customer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Everyone was wandering around the house getting everything ready for my uncle who had come over from Nigeria . |
| 14 | A butterfly was flapping around the wheelbarrow looking for a fragrance to match the colour of that great metallic flower . |
| 15 | So I was looking around the Beckenham and Bromley area when I found this place called Haddon Hall which was an amazing property . |
| 16 | Something was forming around the Bridge : a new Lift . |
| 17 | Long before the meal was ready the kitchen was hazy with smoke , blown back down the chimney by the wind that was howling around the farmhouse . |
| 18 | So bringing the thing in , hello darling , and erm , he was just literally he was rushing around the weeds trying |
| 19 | Much rubbish , mostly lengths of steel angle iron and sheet steel was lying around the building and sadly all traces of railway embellishments , fencing , paving lighting and signs had long been swept away , leaving just mud , weeds and scrub . |
| 20 | Her neck had been broken , there was bruising around the throat that suggested strangulation and blue-black bruising around the lips , that suggested poison had been forced between them . |
| 21 | Whatever it was , it sent her flying ; one minute she was up , the next lying in an uncomfortable heap , half in , half out of a pile of brambles that was growing around the base of a tree in a haphazard , choking sort of way . |
| 22 | And then his thoughts wandered again and he began to worry about the speed with which the vegetation was growing around the ramparts . |
| 23 | P.C. Torney claimed that Hickson 's story was fabrication , and said the youth was prancing around the room at the police station , boxing and boasting of his prowess as a boxer … as a result of the boisterous behaviour , he caught his eye on a window-ledge . |
| 24 | During the early opencast mining period , IBM admits dust containing cyanide , lead and zinc was blowing around the area . |
| 25 | At Billy Graham 's 1961 Maine Road Stadium Crusade , low-level , multi-speaker systems meant that music from choir and instruments was travelling around the stadium electronically and then being ‘ chased ’ by the real sound , with the result that everyone heard everything at least twice . |
| 26 | In contrast the American pairings were a mere nine under par between them , albeit on an afternoon when the wind was swirling around the course causing all sorts of problems with club selection . |
| 27 | The pathetic , skinny dog was scratching around the dustbin searching for the slightest bit of food , until she took one look at me and shot off with her tail between her legs . |
| 28 | Before Mum or Dad could say a word , Natalie was jumping around the hall , singing , ‘ I 'm a Rainbow , I 'm a Rainbow ! ’ much to the amusement of all my Brownie friends . |
| 29 | Then , within seconds , it was over and he was sauntering around the room pouring the almost clear liquid into the guests ' glasses like an insouciant Greek waiter . |
| 30 | From left to right , a spinning maelstrom of snow and rain was sweeping around the block like a tornado . |