Example sentences of "hanging around [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 2 | I was not alone — the Philips team had been kept waiting many hours on several days — though I was beginning to despair of hanging around at the theatre during a five-hour ‘ patching ’ session , being granted only 15 distracted minutes in a break , when we finally resumed our conversation towards midnight . |
| 3 | Spend all your life hanging around on the edge of the scrum and it comes as a bit of a shock to get a pair of fingers up your nostrils . |
| 4 | Hanging around with the photographer sparked Tony 's interest in the medium , ‘ It was a combination of things ; one was the bull , the adventure , the romance , and I really found that I liked it a lot . |
| 5 | ‘ Sure , I like hanging around with the guys , playing golf , having a beer but I also like ladies , too , ’ he protests . |
| 6 | It was not a fun place any more and doors were already slamming shut to the hundreds of young hopefuls hanging around outside the studio gates about the time when Nicholson began his search for work . |
| 7 | ‘ John saw Ivor Horfitz 's son Jason hanging around outside the weighing-room at Newmarket yesterday and had a word with him . ’ |
| 8 | We get people hanging around outside the flat . |
| 9 | And Miss Haines , as Clara suddenly realized , with a curious tremor of conviction , had actually been hanging around in the corridor waiting for her to emerge . |
| 10 | I hang my coat up and start to shout and tell those who are hanging around in the corridor to get outside until the bell goes . |
| 11 | Usually she tried to evade such duties , by hanging around in the bathroom or in her bedroom ; she loathed the tedious , repetitive business of the house . |
| 12 | The women were to be seen hanging around in the yard talking quietly or trying to wash to get a few more rags to the pawnshop . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ People witnessed the man running away , others reported a man hanging around in the area but no one admits seeing the assault happen . |
| 14 | And the only other fact , hanging around in the background , was Bill Sweet 's death , which , by some fairly dubious reasoning and some circumstantial evidence , could be laid at Marius Steen 's door . |
| 15 | ‘ Chris was hanging around in the pool room and we kept going out to play him the mixed songs on my ghetto-blaster . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not without influence , though , ’ Rain said to Harbury whom she had found hanging around near the bar . |
| 17 | She tried to see if he were concealed among the group hanging around near the circolo , but without lifting her eyes to scan them like a strumpet . |
| 18 | He was always hanging around near the entrance of the school . |