Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dying ripples of its massive tidal wave lapped up the English Channel , and the volcanic debris , wreathing the planet , altered weather and harvest patterns around the world for years afterwards . |
| 2 | Erm a very minor point , when you get it , those who have got it already , would you just draw a line from the top line which says discussed criteria , down to the box which says evaluate sectors around York etcetera . |
| 3 | I mean we could well be the exercise that we embark on , could actually eliminate sectors around York . |
| 4 | He did n't want to push her away , but he was getting close to his limit ; his blood was starting to pound in his ears and he was seeing haloes around all of the lights outside . |
| 5 | The main honest job I had during my teens was as a drummer for a piano player who worked various bars and dance halls around the Zona Negra . |
| 6 | The travelling radio show , taking BBC people and shows to meet listeners around Britain , makes Cleveland its third stop this season . |
| 7 | Tractors are caught in the ‘ 100hp dilemma ’ : today 's simple ( often un-turbo-charged ) motors provide outputs around this figure with good driveability and relatively low cost . |
| 8 | No doubt there are many inadequately pursued opportunities around that could be revived and worked through more thoroughly . |
| 9 | He also saw the need to rewrite roles around the talents of the actors , as he did for Crawford , but there were limits to what he could do to make the most of the story for the cinema . |
| 10 | The Cornish giants were reputed to be a stupid and murderous bunch , fond of hurling boulders around the countryside . |
| 11 | In August 1961 the Soviets and East Germans erected barriers around West Berlin , preventing movement between the western sectors and the areas outside . |
| 12 | Britain is pressing the UN to rotate troops to ease the burden on individual countries and make it easier for nations to offer forces for the growing number of peacekeeping duties around the world . |
| 13 | THE pastime of hurling plates around tavernas is now frowned on by Greek authorities . |
| 14 | Then , arranging the largest red roses at equally spaced intervals around the circle , I balanced them with the large single pink roses — it is always important to introduce both light and shade into a design , otherwise it can look very dull . |
| 15 | The fingerboard is wide and again lends itself well to rock styles , although if you 're into slinging guitars around your knees and just going for the chords there 's plenty of meat to get hold of . |
| 16 | Players used dice and moved figures around a board . |
| 17 | The programme experimented with a variety of formats and timings to find ways around the constraints on staff time . |
| 18 | Because some members of the cartel have managed to find ways around production constraints applied in the past , observers do not rule out the possibility that it could happen again . |
| 19 | So far , we have only considered circles around the pilot . |
| 20 | At the same time the body develops ways around the scarring to maintain blood supply ‘ growing ’ little extra blood vessels into the gut and stomach wall . |
| 21 | For example , EMI spent millions of pounds developing its Nobel prize-winning medical scanner in the early 1970s , only to find that competitors found ways around the complex wall of protecting patents for several hundred thousand pounds . |
| 22 | Many can also be grown as tall specimens , winding stems around a stout pole or tripod to create a pillar of blossom . |
| 23 | Tricia sat between Melanie and me , which made me change gear ever so carefully in case I brushed against her ample thigh , and Melanie shouted instructions around her . |
| 24 | St Colum seems to have attracted legends around himself wherever he went , for as Columba he used to be well known to every Scottish schoolboy for converting the King of the Picts , banishing water horses and other praiseworthy acts . |
| 25 | On April 15 The Artist and Leisure Painter magazines have organised tours around the RI annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries . |
| 26 | There is actually there is actually walking tours around the city for those people who wish to opt for |
| 27 | He admits he has tattoos around his waist depicting Hitler , Mussolini and Himmler . |
| 28 | The largest rookery in Oxfordshire dominates a high security storage area , and owls are moving into nesting boxes around the sight . |
| 29 | Then more words about his own father who had taken his own life , then retracting words , self-hating words , words weaving webs around his own egotism , then words that made no sense to the listener , words he himself was unaware of uttering as the tears wiped out reason . |
| 30 | Lady Colin Campbell The Royal Marriages : Private Lives of The Queen and Her Children 21st June , £15.99 P.o.s. : poster and showcards PR : TV , radio and press interviews around country Serialisation : national newspaper |