Example sentences of "[noun] around [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upstairs , she put a shawl around Agnes , saying , ‘ There you are , dear . |
| 2 | The 10-feet high palings , with their broad central gates and twin gas lamps , may not be as imposing as the metal fence around Buckingham Palace , but they do , in their modest way , suggest a sense of grandeur appropriate to a leader who has held office for 10 years . |
| 3 | There was also a new fence around H area , all a part of the new security drive . |
| 4 | ‘ In his letter of July 6 following the meeting , the BAe chairman , Professor Roland Smith , called for the removal of the ring fence around Rover capital allowances , capital losses , and trading losses , and asked the DTI to intervene with the Inland Revenue for ‘ written rulings in advance to certain proposals to be made by BAe with a view to optimising the tax benefits ’ , ’ Mr Brown said . |
| 5 | Although the merger did not dramatically increase the main opposition party 's size , it expanded its geographical area of support beyond the PPD 's traditional south-western stronghold around Kwangju . |
| 6 | By the late 1840s the English race of the great copper butterfly , which had retained its last stronghold around Whittlesey , had become extinct . |
| 7 | Many of the victims were in the south-eastern districts around Chittagong and Cox 's Bazar , and unofficial reports indicated that up to 10,000,000 people had been made homeless . |
| 8 | Lawton ( 1977 ) has shown that many rural districts around London and the other major cities have had persistent population increases since 1921 . |
| 9 | McPhee had all the ordinary police out in support and Garvin brought in extra police from the country districts around Cairo . |
| 10 | Just to complete the picture on the districts around York , erm and in answer to the issue raised by er Miss Whitaker , I think the villages in erm the Harrogate sector of Greater York are all far too small to erm act as a nucleus for the size of development we 're talking about here , er the largest of them , Upper Poppleton , probably has about seven hundred to eight hundred houses , and that I think would be swamped and lose its character and also possibly suffer from coalescence with the nearby York urban area , if er large amounts of additional development were tacked onto it . |
| 11 | At that time , Chiswick still comprised three districts around Turnham Green — to the west there was Strand-on-the-Green with houses facing the river and behind a ‘ Back Lane ’ . |
| 12 | At training sessions around Gloucestershire police officers are learning how to use the new Quickcuff . |
| 13 | It may , however , lead to a new civil war between rival mujaheddin factions , a Pathan coalition around Hekmatyar , the Islamic Pol Pot , and the Tajik alliance led by Ahmed Shah Massoud . |
| 14 | Maybe you could take her out to one of those stables around Mr Morgan 's farm . |
| 15 | I 'll give you a ring around lunch-time . ’ |
| 16 | Vologsky took over control again , knowing that he must be within twenty miles of the outer warning ring around Alma-Ata . |
| 17 | The doctor was sweating from his exertions as he pushed his way through the silent ring around Mrs Frere . |
| 18 | The minerals in hard water combine with soap to form a ‘ scum ’ which can leave a ring around baths and basins . |
| 19 | The two innermost satellites are close to the outer edge of a system of tiny particles that constitute a ring around Jupiter . |
| 20 | Letting the child play with food for a while without the expectation of eating it will reduce the tension around meal-times . |
| 21 | Much of the confrontation around oppressions arose through the national women youth worker conferences , which , as I have already mentioned , were predominantly organized by lesbians . |
| 22 | It is contexts that fascinate Morrison : the context that history places around the present , the community around the individual , blackness around whiteness ( or vice versa ) . |
| 23 | They 've been withdrawn from sale , but its feared other mowers with similar cabling could still be available in shops around Britain . |
| 24 | To his right were the four black limousines that would be used to transport the Zimbalan delegation around New York . |
| 25 | Hoe and then mulch beds , either covering the entire surface or in a radius of 2ft around plants if material is scarce . |
| 26 | Willie Ferrier , the chairman of Armadale Community Council , said that mineral extraction around Armadale had left its mark . |
| 27 | He also came by with old radios and plates , jugs and silver candlesticks , anything he picked up on his roaming trips around South London while he waited for Eva to continue work on the new flat . |
| 28 | I have been dreaming of those 83,000 fans around Wembley Stadium . |
| 29 | The country 's main port , Chittagong , was crippled and the entire salt producing industry around Cox 's Bazar destroyed . |
| 30 | Today , the only animals around Harvard 's field station in the woods are an ageing ostrich , two pet dogs , three ponies , some goats , and miscellaneous hominids . |