Example sentences of "[verb] around [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He swam around in the cold plunge for five minutes to close his pores , then towelled himself vigorously before jumping on the scales in the rest room . |
| 2 | I fumble around for the rest of my kit and fall over Shelagh , who is shining a torch gingerly in one of her boots . |
| 3 | This passage reveals concern for the points of the compass when clipping was in progress as the shepherd moved around under the tree to avoid the rays of the sun . |
| 4 | He moved around to the back of the house , and then ducked in to the laneway that ran behind it . |
| 5 | She moved around to the other side of the desk . |
| 6 | ’ For five minutes the two engineers moved around in the steam and smoke , and looked at the big engines . |
| 7 | Culley moved around in the small space close to the window . |
| 8 | Quite apart from the blunder there was one moment near the end of the game when he was walking around on the stage of Sadler 's Wells , unaware for a few minutes that it was his move . |
| 9 | Not from the beach — I think the salt there would probably kill hookworm — but in the back streets of the town , where the sewage system was n't what it might have been , and also walking around on the wooden deck of an old schooner sailing to Aldabra . |
| 10 | They moved into a flat in Bellevue Crescent , had a dog ( called ‘ Badger ’ , like the family dog in the book ) and wore moth eaten fur coats , walking around with the dog on a piece of string , rolling their own cigarettes ( a habit which has stuck ) and spending hours in the pub drinking scrumpy . |
| 11 | If you practised walking around with the model in the hover , you should have got the hang of this already . |
| 12 | Wear loose fitting clothing to protect your shoulders , arms and legs when you 're walking around in the sun . |
| 13 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 14 | They had rolled around in the narrow berth on the unanchored sheet , slipping on the shiny much-worn cheap leatherette surface of the bunk , lurching in and out of one another in a determined kind of way , the only passengers on the boat not to be paralysed with seasickness . |
| 15 | We just used to banter , have the odd drink together , fool around in the snow . |
| 16 | Tonight it 's the story of his uncle and as he stands around in the hall , he talks about his Uncle Rocco who was stationed in Ipswich . |
| 17 | ‘ Especially with you tearing around like the wronged boyfriend in the last reel of Some Came Running , waving your wretched gun . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the kite that Lord Hanson has flown is bobbing around in the political and financial winds . |
| 19 | The system consists of two parts : a transmitter which is plugged into the main audio system and a receiver which is carried around by the person . |
| 20 | These materials are highly complicated and important fluids which play a great part in the direction of the ways in which our bodies and minds function ; they are known as hormones , and are carried around in the bloodstream exercising effect on each other and on a variety of bodily processes . |
| 21 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 22 | Tom put the blacks up in the front room , crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps . |
| 23 | There are a few non-Leeds supporters lurking around on the list I think . |
| 24 | We now understand the day before another young boy af about nine saw a amn dressed exactly the same some distance away in the Sparcells estate so we can only assume that this man is lurking around in the area . |
| 25 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 26 | Tackling a black run in a blizzard was a worry , but when you only have a long weekend you ca n't hang around for the sun to shine . |
| 27 | Speed and mcalllister would hang around outside the Cov penalty area and snatch onto anything the Cov tried to clear . |
| 28 | Realizing I could n't hang around on the dole forever waiting for the Tate Gallery to offer me an exhibition , and also that my boyfriend , also on the dole , was not likely to be able to support me , I decided to go for further training . |
| 29 | Rolling bream are not frightened bream , nor do they hang around in the swim if they 've been spooked by an escaping fish . |
| 30 | I mean , either you 've got ta hang around in the morning , or he 's got ta hang around at night . |