Example sentences of "[was/were] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The screens were around the bed and the draught from the door set them billowing like sails . |
| 2 | By 1980 , registrations were around the 3,000 mark . |
| 3 | Sam howled with laughter , as did those people who were around the cage at the same time . |
| 4 | For two years my father-in-law shuffled the money around various building societies , chasing the best interest rates , which at times were around the 20 per cent mark . |
| 5 | ‘ What did Miss Trunchbull call your father when they were around the house at home ? ’ |
| 6 | Olschewski said that profits were around the two figure million mark , but would n't provide more specific details . |
| 7 | Rather more skilled crafts , such as fullers , shearmen , cutlers , painters and butchers , were around the £10 mark . |
| 8 | Most docks were around the Midlands ; over a hundred of these were on the Birmingham Canals . |
| 9 | He wandered around for a couple of hours having chats with any of the old fellows who were around the place . ’ |
| 10 | Can you tell me about the buildings that were around the airport ? |
| 11 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 12 | Another person who was around the scene at the time was Chrissie Hynde who , after Malcolm 's shop and writing for the NME , had really been scuffling around . |
| 13 | The rise in unemployment frustrated the government 's spending plans , because of the rising costs of social security ; it also undermined the credibility of the government 's claims that its economic strategy was working and that economic recovery was around the corner . |
| 14 | The return of socialism would be the ‘ road to nowhere , a dead end ’ at a time when economic recovery was around the corner . |
| 15 | The man hurried on , throwing the leaflet in a waste-paper bin as soon as he was around the corner by the newspaper stand . |
| 16 | Dr Margaret Ashwell told the conference that the worst form of middle-age spread was around the middle as the traditional beer-belly shape meant more fat was concentrated where it does most harm — around the internal organs . |
| 17 | And it was around the locality that loyalty was built . |
| 18 | Any involvement in the race issue was around the anti-Fascist campaigns of that time . |
| 19 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |
| 20 | The Macedonian government was able to press its claim for recognition , which had been blocked by Greece , by threatening that war was around the corner . |
| 21 | IBM is very touchy on the issue of morale : last week in New York when we got around to asking Bill Filip what the mood was around the joint , the spin doctors converged and shuffled him off . |
| 22 | It was formed by a number of volcanic eruptions , the last of which was around the 18th century BC , and its hot-headed volcanic formations warm the local waters to delicious bathing temperatures . |
| 23 | Poldhu Cove was around the next corner . |
| 24 | Armies chose these banks as suitable places for crossing the Rhine , and a particularly eventful time was around the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the next . |
| 25 | The generator itself was around the back of the reception block , protected from interference or vandalism by a welded metal walk-in cage inside a lean-to shed . |
| 26 | It was 1852 before freight receipts exceeded passenger receipts and it was around the same time that the railways overtook the canals to become the principal freight carriers . |
| 27 | It was around the family table that Blanc learned to respect food . |
| 28 | Yet I gather that Mr Muggeridge was around the school in the grounds tonight . ’ |
| 29 | There was no motive , and Greg had no notion whether he was around the house at the time or not . |
| 30 | You 've been threatened and harassed , and worrying about what was around the corner . |