Example sentences of "[vb -s] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | St Nicholas Cathedral at the corner of our square is a great deep cavern of dusky toned Baroque , the light upheld by the dark shadows which flow in elegant curliques and whisps around the ornate ceiling , along pillars and walls emblazoned with the richness of colour that only an intensely , at times intellectually , emotional and predominantly Catholic country could produce . |
| 2 | Instead it pivots around the main wheel . |
| 3 | She only lives around the corner . ’ |
| 4 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 5 | They asked Mrs thomas to let them in , but she held a note up to the window asking them to fetch her daughter , Mr Bellamy 's mother , who lives around the corner . |
| 6 | But reruns around the world are set to net him £49 million for the two years ending this December , taking his total fortune to around £150 million . |
| 7 | The fire has curtailed some parachute exercises around the country and temporaily grounded the Red Berets Parachute regiment in Hampshire . |
| 8 | It is with Chaplin 's personal life that Attenborough sloshes around the whitewash like a demented house-painter . |
| 9 | She pauses , and glances around the room . |
| 10 | Nobody but a fool who believes his luck lies around the corner could be similarly influenced by the likes of Frankie . |
| 11 | The Glenmore Forest Park lies around the shores of the lovely Loch Morlich in the Cairngorms . |
| 12 | It is relatively easy to fit metal , plastic , or foam strips around the sides of the doors to exclude draughts . |
| 13 | The Fenny Bentley figures , for there are two of them , also wear winding-sheets , but here they are tucked under the feet , secured by linen bands around the calves , and finished off with a neat bow ; but the head end displays the standard knot . |
| 14 | Oval Face : You 'll look good in a veil that frames your face like a halo — bands around the forehead will suit you too . |
| 15 | A fluid will now form inside the containing membrane , forcing the cells outward towards its surface so that , in effect , a cellular shell develops around the fluid-filled cavity . |
| 16 | He looks around the room . |
| 17 | He looks around the room . |
| 18 | Someone comes to the hotel lobby entrance , looks around the car park and disappears back in . |
| 19 | If one looks around the country , one becomes seriously concerned about the definition of a high level of service in certain local authorities . |
| 20 | Artillery shelling rings around the abandoned old quarter as Serbian forces fight with Muslims for control of the surrounding hills . |
| 21 | Below left A goat 's age can be determined by analysing the growth rings around the horns . |
| 22 | Corporal Tait busies around the pack checking for oil leaks and tightening the odd bolt ; ten minutes later the crew are smiling as they clear up , looking forward to a well-deserved shower . |
| 23 | The hairs on its furry body are covered with microscopic hooks which pick up the slightly sticky pollen grains as the bee busies around the flower . |
| 24 | S 639 : ‘ The Sovereign … is proprietor of the narrow seas within cannon shot of the land , and the firths , gulfs , and bays around the Kingdom . ’ |
| 25 | They went for long rambles around the hills which overlook Balmoral and as they lay in the heather he read out passages from books by the Swiss psychiatrist , Carl Jung , or Laurens van der Post . |
| 26 | Later , as the aircraft swooped down over many of the fields that were so familiar to me in my detecting rambles around the countryside , I soon realised that the weather had taken its toll on the cropmarks . |
| 27 | She kisses lightly , licks around the tip , and he 's proud like a teenage boy . |
| 28 | The wind swirls around the Earth and its magnetic field , triggering spectacular aurorae . |
| 29 | Anything and everything happens around the kitchen table , and if anything nasty occurs , it is aired , talked about and solved . |
| 30 | Visitors to Ingatestone , one of the few houses in Essex to boast original mullioned windows , should watch out for Siddy the green parrot , who flaps around the garden performing his imitation of a ringing telephone . |