Example sentences of "[verb] around the base " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking around the base of an active cone erupting these bombs is a bit like walking around a battlefield , with spent rounded cannonball bombs and shattered fragments of cannonballs lying around , and many big battered boulders exhibiting the bruises of a long volcanic siege . |
| 2 | In spring the garden is a feast of blossom and bulbs : snowflake or Loddon lilies clustered around the base of the trees , violet scillas scrambling down the banks and big , old-fashioned daffodils crowded around the mulberry tree . |
| 3 | The wolves clustered around the base of the tree looked up with interest at their next meal talking to himself . |
| 4 | Then arrange some flowers in the vase , remembering to position a few so that they overlap the top of the vase to soften as many hard lines as possible , with perhaps one or two leaves or flowers ranged around the base of the vase for a more natural effect . |
| 5 | The four shockcorded aluminium poles are inserted into split mesh sleeves and secured around the base of the Oxford pu nylon groundsheet by inserting each end of the poles into small eyelets . |
| 6 | Whatever it was , it sent her flying ; one minute she was up , the next lying in an uncomfortable heap , half in , half out of a pile of brambles that was growing around the base of a tree in a haphazard , choking sort of way . |
| 7 | Humans were milling around the base of the Ship . |
| 8 | Hindus know the cosmic energy as the kundalini or serpent force , and this is said to be coiled around the base of the spine in every human being . |
| 9 | Trim off icing around the base , but let it still cover the drum slightly . |
| 10 | Sometimes you can see the results of this decay on the corporation landscape — scaffolding canopies thrown around the base of tower blocks to catch falling concrete , the cracked and corroded corners which drop off like snow , but unless you are looking for it you do n't notice it . |
| 11 | Situated around the base of each wing is a variable number of articular sclerites which consist of the tegulae , the humeral plate and the axillaries ( Fig. 27 ) . |
| 12 | Using grey fondant trimmings , roll out and cut out long strips , 1cm ( ½ inch ) wide , to go around the base of the bus . |
| 13 | Dry off gladioli corms in trays , then remove very small cormlets that have developed around the base — these will eventually flower , but only when grown on for several years . |
| 14 | In Isfield , Sir John Shurley and his two wives lie side by side on a mighty tomb of alabaster with their children carved kneeling around the base . |