Example sentences of "of [v-ing] around [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other man was in no particular rush to be anywhere , being newly-divorced and having been thrust back into bedsit-land alone and at the age of forty-two , but out of a range of possibilities the prospect of hanging around on a station platform with Joe Lucas had to rank among the lowest . |
| 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 | Of course , I 'll have to do an internship first , then a stint as a registrar before I can even think of looking around for a practice of my own . ’ |
| 4 | For many people it is a matter of looking around for the car they want and then frantically trying to arrange the finance , whilst the ‘ offer ’ still holds . |
| 5 | And they 're right , because the idea of wandering around with a radio-equipped , RISC-based , flat tablet , scribbling notes and then faxing them off Star Trek-style to headquarters , is so far from the reality of poor handwriting recognition , disappointing battery life , so-so screens and skyscrapingly high prices , that most users simply have n't bothered . |
| 6 | ‘ I think it 's a matter of stumbling around in the dark until we find a clue , ’ Loretta said gratefully . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , perhaps you might allow me to go for a walk from time to time , instead of waiting around in the servants ’ hall . |
| 8 | It takes an hour and a lot of people do n't want to walk around the city they 'd like the option of going around on the bus . |
| 9 | Talking exclusively to the NME about the background to the song , songwriter Tim London said : ‘ Claire 's Kitchen ’ is based on an interesting rumour , but is really there to point out the hypocrisy of a political party that has championed so-called family values , whilst indulging in the biggest spate of shagging around since The Beatles . |
| 10 | The effect is almost as though one were experiencing full immersion for the first time after years of paddling around in the shallows . |
| 11 | The scene of scrabbling around at the top of the stairwell and the subsequent scene of ED 209 's lashing about furiously at the foot of the stairs , unable to regain its footing , were then animated , the latter mostly using back projection and maximum blurs — almost literally hands-on , with the animator waggling the legs with wires during the one- or two-frame takes . |
| 12 | ‘ We never use these drawers , if he 'd put the light on instead of feeling around in the dark he 'd have found that out immediately . ’ |
| 13 | You can thus save money compared with an overdraft — and save the effort of shopping around in the Money Market for credit which is anyway less flexible . |