Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless she is very fit , able to care for the garden and do decorating and other jobs of that kind around the house , she will miss his support in this way too . |
| 2 | Speaking at a rally on " Shaka Day " ( celebrating a Zulu hero ) , and brandishing a number of " traditional " weapons , Buthelezi declared that any attempt by the government to disarm Inkatha would be defied and that fencing around migrant worker hostels , largely Inkatha strongholds , would be destroyed . |
| 3 | I did the same with another strip around the right ankle and over the foot , so that it was held between the sole of the foot and the wooden backing of the old door . |
| 4 | In another case around this time we can see how different newspapers use familiar but different tags to identify a particular ‘ sex beast ’ . |
| 5 | We 'll wrap this blanket around us . ’ |
| 6 | motorway this afternoon around junction twenty five |
| 7 | Strolling into history ANYONE interested in local history can join a guided walk this afternoon around Neston Park organised by the Parkgate Society . |
| 8 | You must anticipate some damage around the home at this stage , especially if you leave your pet on its own for any length of time . |
| 9 | last time there was some tea around available . |
| 10 | Cos I 'm doing some mobile , well I 'm hoping to get some mobile around Ruddington before it opens and so people can see me a bit before . |
| 11 | But there 'll be some jollification around the old homestead tonight and nobody likes tripping the light fantastic better than wor Martin . ’ |
| 12 | It is a so it 's a complex set of interrelationships we 're looking at er on a sub-regional basis , I do believe that there is capacity , some capacity around the inner area of York , and to what extent the greenbelt enquiry er inspector will retain what I and others and certainly York City Council would believe is sufficient capacity remains to be seen , and though similar pleas were made at that enquiry I think they have to be restated here . |
| 13 | She thinks of her father , whom she has never known , of whom she knows nothing , almost nothing , but whose image , it is alleged , is in that locket : an image which also hangs in an identical locket at this moment around her sister 's neck . |
| 14 | I think there 's another point around that about erm , the image that 's portrayed by the media and and to be successful in your career you must be a slim , well made up woman erm , and thinness equates with success and an ability to get on in life . |
| 15 | According to a British study published in 1984 , at least three-quarters of all dog owners look to their pets to provide some security around the home , but proper training is required to ensure that your dog does not become a dominant tyrant at home . |
| 16 | Some place around St. David . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Pronto is erm an area of the store where we sell our occasional furniture and erm small priced coffee tables , hi-fi units the occasional furniture that may go erm whereas up until a couple of years ago we use to display this product around the showroom floor part of the new concept stores was that we actually set the same section in the showroom which is very much like a a shelving system whereby the stock actually sits on the shelves , the customer walks in and it 's an easy easy purchase straight off the trolley erm very much like the supermarket operation so it 's the lower priced good value occasional type furniture the cash and carry the kind of things that you do n't need sales assistants for the kind of bookcase that you would put in your children 's bedroom that kind of thing . |
| 19 | Pipe another circle around the edges to make nests . |
| 20 | Always include a way out of the pond for wildlife at some point around the edge . |
| 21 | In the course of a life-time , so many facts and sense inhibitions impinge upon our minds , that our brains have become selective , and we 're unconscious of much of this happening around us . |
| 22 | But if you erect this wall around yourself we shall be forced to throw stones . |
| 23 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 24 | I can recall many hours of enjoyable discussion on this topic around the fire of the servants ' hall at the end of a day . |
| 25 | The latch to the barn is ‘ unlifted ’ which highlights the lack of action in Mariana 's life and the ‘ clinking ’ sound is a reminder of when there was once some movement around the grange . |
| 26 | Southwark was bad but this area around Whitefriars was worse . |
| 27 | Leaving her bench , Fabia next took another stroll around the town which so enchanted her . |
| 28 | Excuse my preoccupation with this journey around Britain , but it occupies my waking , and indeed sleeping , hours . |
| 29 | Keep some space around your life when you can be alone , some time when you are not with people . |
| 30 | The Alsatians , their thick pelts soaked and steaming , had sniffed with some certainty around a little icon of the Virgin which stood by the roadside , sheltered from the rain by a stone arch , but after that they had rambled unhappily this way and that and returned whining to their handlers , who were knee-deep in mud , soaked to the skin and cursing roundly . |