Example sentences of "and [vb past] [to-vb] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Philippa kicked off her sandals and started to pad around the room in bare feet . |
| 2 | Amelia had left off quoting from the wit and wisdom of her favourite mass murderers , done a few lines of cocaine , and started to whizz around the room . |
| 3 | He got up and started to walk around the room . |
| 4 | A few rooms away , Zambia had become thoroughly tired of trying to get some sleep in such an uncomfortable place , and decided to snoop around the building . |
| 5 | Meryl tucked the papers under her arm and decided to walk around the boundary until she came to an alternative entrance . |
| 6 | Lambert dropped his right wing and dummied to go around the right of the balloon , and just as the Triplane started firing he banked steeply to the left and got away . |
| 7 | As though to prove her point , Bruno jerked his lead out of her hand , broke free , and proceeded to roam around the surgery . |
| 8 | Amy cast herself as The Maid and proceeded to rush around the house performing errands and putting the world to rights . |
| 9 | Brian arrived , with his girlfriend and another friend , who seemed to realize that I needed to calm down and offered to walk around the building with me . |
| 10 | Rasa ( b ) is the name of a mythical river personified as a Goddess and said to flow around the world . |