Example sentences of "[vb past] around [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They zigzagged around tree trunks and saw the dark shapes scurrying along out of the corner of their eyes . |
| 2 | ‘ And you drove around sightseeing ? |
| 3 | After they 'd decided to restore a 200-year-old country cottage on the outskirts of Stroud , Gloucester , housewife Amanda Rawson and her husband scouted around auction rooms looking for furniture to suit it . |
| 4 | The study focused mainly upon a group of twelve ‘ lads ’ in a school in Birmingham whom Willis followed around school and outside . |
| 5 | For me , the issues gelled around place , accident and the body . |
| 6 | It is not entirely true to say everyone who is anyone has been coached there , but a heck of a lot have — Frank Tyson , Fred Titmus , Ted Dexter , Viv Richards and the teenage Ken Barrington , who hung around day after day asking questions . |
| 7 | Their seventh century opening stand in 14 Tests together safely established , the openers were separated at last when the younger man was bowled by Akram , who pitched around leg and hit the off stump at sped . |
| 8 | For their part , trade unions showed little or no interest in the new community-based movements that emerged from the late 1960s , and saw little to interest them in the educational work that developed around community struggles . |
| 9 | She went out and returned around midnight . |
| 10 | Boswell employs over a thousand words to describe the Monboddo visit , which began around mid-day , and ended when they had to leave for Aberdeen which they did not reach until late that night . |
| 11 | A chorus of shouting began around Holly . |
| 12 | Moreover , by providing a sustained source of recruits they brought into being the radical subculture which revolved around discussion circles , experimental communes , and avant-garde journals . |
| 13 | The interview inside revolved around vegetarianism . |
| 14 | Clinton 's chief henchman , Venner , was an amiable enough fellow but his conversation revolved around bear and cock fighting and the virtues of one breed of horse over another . |
| 15 | Many early religious cults revolved around sexuality . |
| 16 | At first Colchester stumbled around court looking anything but promotion contenders , Nomads outserving and outhitting the Essex side early on . |
| 17 | ‘ We gave her a meal and rang around rail and air companies to sort out travel arrangements . |
| 18 | and er , I mean what she saw of Kerry was , she dropped her here at quarter to nine , she picked her up between five and half past and the rest of her she saw around kid , the rest of the time she saw her own kid and er Julia was to have her until she went to school , so I mean how can there be any bond there , which there ca n't , but the mother said herself I had her because it was the done thing so I mean it 's , it 's today in n it do n't you think ? |
| 19 | Consequently there was little they could do early that night when a mammoth sea caught them dangerously broached-to , but the buoyancy of Mae West life jackets wedged in the bow and stern kept the waterlogged canoe afloat till the storm eased around midnight — some 24 hours after it blew up . |
| 20 | In fact I tuned out altogether for at least a week , while John checked into the hotel and ran around town shuffling papers and permits and palmgrease and all the other shit you deal in when you 're firming up a fresh identity . |
| 21 | I had invited him for a meal , and he left around midnight . ’ |
| 22 | The embarrassment when it got around school that ‘ Kate loves bugs ’ was intense . |
| 23 | Intense conversation was on the go , centered around product placement . |
| 24 | It was ancient , a nest of shining metal that had been the first cis-lunar colony , the first man-made world that orbited around mankind 's ancestral home . |
| 25 | The reply given by Mrs. Bottomley centred around trade barriers not being acceptable and the answer appeared to me to contradict the action taken by America where President Bush has stated that Japanese imports are to be restricted . |
| 26 | She said she would shop for a couple of hours on her own , that she did n't want him with her while she mooched around dress departments . |
| 27 | It always seemed that they reappeared around Palm Sunday when people were pouring out of the churches carrying little sprays of olive leaves that looked silvery in the hard sunlight . |