Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quickly I fastened my veil around my face . |
| 2 | That evening I decided to begin my search around the shower area . |
| 3 | I tried to get my mind around something intangible . |
| 4 | I have a suspicion that my clothes-sense around the side roads of Frenchay and Stapleton shocks a few of my friends . |
| 5 | ‘ I think my standing around this town is pretty average , Gil . |
| 6 | Hence my hanging around what one assistant haughtily dismissed as the ‘ antique section ’ of hi-fi stores . |
| 7 | Every day , I always used to stick my head around the office door and say , ‘ Anything for me today ? ’ — and one day they said , ‘ Well , we 're looking for dancers for the BBC 's production of Pistol Shot ( which was a play by Chekhov ) — maybe you 'd like to do it and choreograph it and use some of your students ? ’ |
| 8 | I made my way through the crowds to Farr 's in Brown Street , managed to get right up to the entrance and poke my head around the door to see what was going on . |
| 9 | I could n't quite get my head around the fact that this vast underground world existed , going on and on underground with chambers , tunnels , streams and pools , all underneath hills , roads and houses . |
| 10 | But I remember Puzznic very fondly as a game that I could actually get my head around ( it 's very flexible you know ) ; even a thicko like me can understand the concept of joining corresponding icons together . |
| 11 | ‘ I just ca n't get my head around this idea of defining oneself by one 's genitals . |
| 12 | He 's so good that I 've ended up basing all my choreography around him . ’ |
| 13 | I could n't get my tongue around the consonants ; I lisped . |
| 14 | ‘ For the past few years I have built my life around rugby and I am happy to go on doing that until I ca n't go any further in the game ’ , he said . |
| 15 | ‘ If I 'm going to have to organise my life around flying visits from you , I 'll need to have some idea . ’ |
| 16 | OK , educate the child , educate the dog , but I could never let a child of mine walk around a ring with a big , powerful dog like that , because it is a big , powerful vicious beast . |
| 17 | My husband died 11 years ago and I built my world around Louis . |
| 18 | There must have been a draught because I wrapped my coat around my knees . |
| 19 | Seeking to remedy this sad state of affairs , I browsed my way around the bookshop from floor to floor , upstairs and down and in and out of little book-filled rooms that the owners themselves may have forgotten about . |
| 20 | M. Dupont resumed his conversation and I continued my way around the room for some moments . |
| 21 | Big deal , I can still find my way around this blasted place . |
| 22 | However , as one speechreader said to me , ‘ By using my eyes , I often find my way around large terminals and airports much more easily than my friends who can hear and who are automatically inclined to rely on announcements . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know my way around Beirut . ’ |
| 24 | Bearing in mind that I 'm still finding my way around Symphony , I fear that every next step might lock the processor . |
| 25 | If I can navigate my way around Heathrow airport , I can get to downtown Venice . ’ |
| 26 | I soon found my way around both the broad boulevards and reeking , rat-infested alleyways . |
| 27 | Where did I put my bag around school ? |
| 28 | ‘ I shall celebrate with my family around me and I shall break the record for the widest smile , ’ he said . |
| 29 | It is not simply a question of availability of space , but of a belief that , as one mother put it , ‘ I like to wake up in the night and see all my family around me . ’ |
| 30 | I put my arm around her in a chaste , consoling embrace . |