Example sentences of "[noun sg] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman came out of her house and apparently poured a pot of tea around the base of a bush . |
| 2 | Western press reports noted a rise in banditry around the refugee camps on the Thai border , leading to an indefinite suspension of UN aid shipments from Thailand into Cambodia from Sept. 21 . |
| 3 | Building a seat around a tree . |
| 4 | Having spent much of the glorious summer last year sitting in the shade of the apple tree I decided that if such summers were to continue it would be a good idea to build a permanent seat around the tree . |
| 5 | At 27 years old , and having won 52 international caps , ‘ Jacki ’ had earned recognition around the world and , more importantly , the permission of the Polish authorities to move abroad . |
| 6 | There was an instant chorus of recognition around the ( all-female ) table . |
| 7 | In this circuit ( figure ) , the data input controls gate IC ID establishing positive or negative feedback around the oscillator formed by IC IA IC IB and IC IC . |
| 8 | The only time that that does n't apply is if you are thinking in terms of posts in a fence around a square field or round a circular field . |
| 9 | An even larger protest was held the following year when 10,000 people gathered , many of them climbing a staircase of straw bales built over the ten-foot high barbed wire fence around the site . |
| 10 | Stop Hinkley supporters immediately scaled the fence around the large , green field where the new power station was due to rise — and ceremonially burned a domed model of a Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 11 | But in the end the resident was only allowed to inspect the security of the chain link fence around the dump . |
| 12 | As is so often the case , these gates have been made by someone who has obviously no experience of walking , because they are impossible to negotiate with a rucksack on , unless you climb onto the bottom bars of the fence around the gate to lift the sack above the top rail . |
| 13 | But it used to be different then … there was n't no atmosphere like there is now and there were n't no fence around the London Road like now … |
| 14 | Erect a small fence around the pool consisting of short canes abut 15 cm ( 6 in ) high , linked together with a single strand of fishing line . |
| 15 | He was caught in a massive police hunt launched after the four fled through a hole in a fence around the jail playing field . |
| 16 | ‘ Yanto Gates , ’ she squeaked , ‘ if you think I am going to hare around the country in all winds and weathers in a contraption like that , you 've got another think coming . |
| 17 | Thick , textured fabrics are unsuitable as they do not take the stiffening well and also produce too much bulk around the roller . |
| 18 | Elsewhere , in Aquitaine , the hoards show a very low level of mixing of coins from various mints , suggesting only local circulation around a single centre , and there is virtually no sign of coins entering the region from the north or north-east . |
| 19 | Today there are over 36 million cards in circulation around the world . |
| 20 | In the majority of houses there are two different types of hot water : one which is in continuous circulation around the radiators of the central heating system , and one which comes out of the hot water taps in the bathroom and kitchen . |
| 21 | Some of the parts were more difficult to make than others — the curves of the bonnet , for instance , were achieved by shaping aluminium around a length of pipe — but a few , like the wind-screen , had to be bought at auto jumbles . |
| 22 | The venture has been conspicuously successful in giving a platform to Scottish musicians , and in building audience momentum around the country , although the break from now until the autumn could threaten the latter achievement . |
| 23 | The Labour government sought from the start to construct and hold together a support bloc around the theme of a ‘ social contract ’ , and I propose to organise my account of the development of political forces in this period around that same theme . |
| 24 | She ran her forefinger around the inside of the white pyrex bowl and said nothing . |
| 25 | The ceremony ends with a shotgun blasted into the boughs to wake up the sleeping tree.Does it work … apparently yes.It 's now thought that making such a rumpus around the trees scares off harmful insects … so wassailing really does make the orchards healthier . |
| 26 | One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on . |
| 27 | ‘ The way I see it , ’ he said , strategically deploying troops and artillery around a wall-to-wall map , ‘ with a little more armour the Germans could be really kicking ass . ’ |
| 28 | I cut down young trees and put them in the ground , in a half-circle around the front of my tent . |
| 29 | Most of the talk around the world has been of " stages " , as though these units , though of no defined dimensions , are the ultimate in stratigraphical correlation on a world-wide scale . |
| 30 | It was originally powered by an iron and wood breast shot water wheel , replaced with a turbine around the turn of the century . |