Example sentences of "[v-ing] around [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It just means sort of walking around recording |
| 2 | One of the nicest things about walking around coastline peninsulas is that it is often easy to stick to the coastline without doubling back on yourself at the end . |
| 3 | Over the next few days , Syrian George taped an assortment of Arab cab-drivers in Tel Aviv broadcasting on taxi frequencies with r bits and pieces of low-level intelligence picked up from observations while driving around town and from eavesdropping on their fares ' back-seat conversations . |
| 4 | It was an indication of It facing both ways , torn between a youth culture stumbling around politics and the embers of 1967 . |
| 5 | East , conceived by Lynda Checketts , offered an alternative to the London-based open shows such as the Whitechapel whose selection criteria is open to artists living around east London and the rather irregular Hayward Open and the Serpentine Summer Show . |
| 6 | Beyond Park Farm the track goes into Park Wood and travels east through the wood , emerging and passing around North Cote Farm . |
| 7 | The shops had shut and people were wandering around arm in arm and going into pubs and restaurants . |
| 8 | ‘ It may seem so to you , but you can take my word for it , if I were in the business of prowling around car parks looking for innocent Bentleys to wreck , I most certainly would n't use my own car as a battering-ram . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's like a terrorist attack , you know , splashing around rifle fire and bazookas and even nerve gas indiscriminately so as to get the highest death toll in the shortest possible time . ’ |
| 10 | RESHUFFLE fever , which had Tory ministers scuttling around Parliament like hunted rabbits in the days before the ritual disembowelling of Norman Lamont , has been followed by a feeling of severe let-down . |
| 11 | The water that had seemed so bitingly refreshing only moments ago was already feeling like a strait-jacket of ice tangling around Charity 's speedily numbing limbs . |
| 12 | After going around edge of large bay ( ignoring path descending to beach ) , path keeps to edge of fields on seaward side and crosses three stiles ; |
| 13 | ‘ People did n't like his going around town with one after the other . ’ |
| 14 | Meanwhile , congressmen from energy-producing states are going around town telling everybody who is willing to listen what splendid concessions they got in return for their votes . |
| 15 | Meanwhile Changez was getting better and better at Lying on camp-beds , reading paperbacks and strolling around town with me . |
| 16 | Linda and I spent two hours riding around Villa Maura later in the week trying to find the site . |
| 17 | She was riding around town looking for George on his Bay Horse to hear of his encounter with the Dragon . |
| 18 | The Campaign attacks the carve-up of the brewing industry by vested interests , and the way that large companies are getting around legislation following the 1989 MMC Report . |
| 19 | This worried me , because there always seemed to be a few mosquitoes flying around house . |
| 20 | I have n't the time to go traipsing around art galleries . |
| 21 | Southern Herzegovina could be Italy , with its unassuming villas and family vineyards sloping across the rocky horizon ; with cars swerving around mountain roads and cows straying off the verges in ignorant abandon . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's difficult to work out somebody 's background when you only see them on the ski-slopes or fooling around après-ski . |
| 23 | When Eliot heard that Wyndham Lewis had been travelling around North Africa in a thick English suit , he remarked , " Lewis was always a heavily dressed man " ; and of a lady who had acquired too many petrol coupons during the first year of the war , he said , " There is always bound to be a certain element of iniquity in these matters " . |
| 24 | Built in left-hand-drive form only , a mere 125 a year of the 155mph saloon will reach the UK , starting around mid-year at a price expected to be close to £52,000 . |
| 25 | ‘ 'E might be finkin' o' gettin' the money by knockin' around wiv that Rovver'ithe mob . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ This copper said 'e used ter be on the Tunnel beat an' 'e 'd seen a bloke who looked like me knockin' around wiv 'em . |
| 27 | Some of you may have seen Graham Masters from Dosimetry Services running around site and the Wool country lanes at lunch times . |
| 28 | Most of the horses I have bought in the past have been five or six years old , and have been at the stage of jumping around Discovery and Newcomer classes . |
| 29 | No one suggests he should be left to the mercy of mad killers , but if he 's really on the run he should be sheltering in some safe house , not bopping around town . |
| 30 | Sukenick 's own composed sequences ( revolving around routine violence ) are juxtaposed with excerpts from contemporary reports on Hell 's Angels , the Manson family , etc. to suggest a picture of conditions . |