Example sentences of "[pron] was around " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 last year in the holidays I was around all the time but
3 Added salt in the wound is that one of the books in the list that follows is taken from the collection which was around Gladstone as he spoke , and that another is one actually given to a library by his trustees .
4 It was formed by a number of volcanic eruptions , the last of which was around the 18th century BC , and its hot-headed volcanic formations warm the local waters to delicious bathing temperatures .
5 Then the Judge took the end of the noose which was around Moore 's neck .
6 Oh , God , why was it that whenever she was around this man her wits went begging ?
7 But she was around the house long enough for me to figure out that whatever arguments she has with herself , at the end of the day she will find some really crackerjack reason for doing whatever it is she wanted to do anyway .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 All there was around her was endless waves of ruby and ice with the fog crawling beneath her feet .
11 He died happily , Jenna ; everyone who loved him was around him .
12 It was around this point , in the midst of dealing with the many demands being made on my attention , that I happened to glance out of a window and spotted the figure of the young Mr Cardinal taking some fresh air around the grounds .
13 It was around this point — and I have no idea if he had planned to do so beforehand — that his lordship began to reminisce about his late friend , Herr Karl-Heinz Bremann .
14 It was around Lake Baikal that the woman in pink had been able to share in her daughter 's delight with the journey .
15 It was around these two precocious strikers that Torino intended to reclaim their rightful crown as the city 's top club .
16 It was a sound they knew , one often heard at night from within the dark walls of the cottages in the village , but out here it was around them and with them and part of them and it had an eerie quality as though inside the vixen some diabolic spirit was entrapped , a demon screeching its despair .
17 And it was around the locality that loyalty was built .
18 It was 1852 before freight receipts exceeded passenger receipts and it was around the same time that the railways overtook the canals to become the principal freight carriers .
19 It was around the family table that Blanc learned to respect food .
20 I suppose it was around this period that our Investigation Department began to involve the cutters in some of their more interesting operations .
21 I stood at the front door and it was around my ankles , within five minutes it was around my knees , ’ said Joanne .
22 I stood at the front door and it was around my ankles , within five minutes it was around my knees , ’ said Joanne .
23 But this time the tape was sagging so low it was around the horse 's knees .
24 But this time the tape was sagging so low it was around the horse 's knees .
25 It was around Douaumont Village that the main fury of the fighting raged .
26 Well Mark held er a meeting based on that document that was sent down so , they had to cancel it because it was around er thing they were voting on you see ?
27 The man hurried on , throwing the leaflet in a waste-paper bin as soon as he was around the corner by the newspaper stand .
28 There was no motive , and Greg had no notion whether he was around the house at the time or not .
29 He was around all the time .
30 She imagined a lifetime among her own Dreamed creations , knowing exactly what they would say next , exactly what was around every corner .
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