Example sentences of "[adv] around [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we flew down around hairpin bends , I thanked Fate we were n't doing the day 's route in reverse ! |
| 2 | Talks broke down around lunchtime after the technical and clerical staff rejected a one point eight percent increase and an offer of profit related pay . |
| 3 | We just went down around town . |
| 4 | He 's only around school . |
| 5 | I suggest that the parties involved in the Darlington project visit York , in particular , a stretch of the ring road between the A19 and the A59 especially around 3–6pm . |
| 6 | Information is correct at the time of going to press , but museums may have to vary their hours from time to time and it is worth checking before a special visit is made , especially around Christmas , Easter and Bank Holidays . |
| 7 | By 1918 North Shields was a clear locale of modern organized capitalism with very large industrial establishments in Smith 's Dock and the docks of the Tyne Improvement Commission , with a highly organized capitalist class , particularly in shipping and in urban development , and with a working class organized around production in trade unions and reproduction through ad hoc organizations , especially around housing . |
| 8 | Sainsbury moved in around day two with a £200,000 press project that has now evolved into a £14.2m ( Media Register ) account . |
| 9 | She 's ringing in around lunchtime . |
| 10 | In any case , the guards kept popping in around news time . |
| 11 | They had , apparently , ridden in around dawn , after a hectic escape from the battlefield 's carnage , the Steward 's right arm in a sling . |
| 12 | So those issues about ‘ blood ’ relations as ‘ natural ’ bonds have been dealt with in some grand , melodramatic way in the American soaps and are now also coming into the British soaps , in less melodramatic forms , but it 's significant that there 's a lot of concern , not around motherhood but actually more around fatherhood . |
| 13 | Cut panels squarely around door architraves , there 's no need to scribe to fit the profile as they 'll be covered by the flooring . |
| 14 | Dearlove 's study ( 1973 , ch. 8 ) of Kensington and Chelsea showed that the council 's response to groups revolved largely around councillor assessment of them . |
| 15 | I am not expecting the Test wickets to turn a lot — they did n't on the tour there in 1981-82 — and the current Indian attack is based more around pace than spin . |
| 16 | So those issues about ‘ blood ’ relations as ‘ natural ’ bonds have been dealt with in some grand , melodramatic way in the American soaps and are now also coming into the British soaps , in less melodramatic forms , but it 's significant that there 's a lot of concern , not around motherhood but actually more around fatherhood . |
| 17 | Or , to put it another way , the value may rise as functions become centred more around consumption and less around productive activities . |
| 18 | Such an occurrence happened to Mr R. J. Woodward of Ninckley and his wife and daughter when travelling home around midnight along the Watling Street ( A5 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ But more young people leave home around Christmas as the pressure of not having money to spend can become too much of a strain . |
| 20 | Although the gun works at a lower temperature than its counterparts , warm up time was still around average — five minutes from plugging in . |
| 21 | ‘ you come in ere half pissed once a month , usually around midnight , and expect me to jump around for you , now you 're bringing you mates as well . ’ |
| 22 | An illustration of such activity is where record collections are promoted ( usually around Christmas time ) through a series of single simple advertisements . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm still in America — and it 's just dawned on me that it 's probably around midnight where you are . |
| 24 | I assume even your second wife would be used to this sort of thing by now but I looked you up : you 've got a boy ant a girl both around college age and — ’ |
| 25 | Washington Square ; Greenwich Village , the part of New York which stays up all night and starts waking up around midday . |
| 26 | Later , they had returned on sailboards , taking advantage of the breeze that had sprung up around lunchtime . |
| 27 | I mean , I sold up around West Hill you said many a time , how we think that 's |
| 28 | The postman usually bicycled up around mid-morning , a time when everyone in the house was busy or pretending to be . |
| 29 | The truck turned up around noon . |
| 30 | Some businesses vowed they would be back today and a number of ‘ business as usual ’ signs had already gone up around shop windows . |