Example sentences of "[verb] around for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I left college in ‘ 76 , and subsequently hustled around for about four months working for various people , before I heard of a second assistant 's job coming up with David Thorpe . |
| 2 | He cast around for somewhere to put them , and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant . |
| 3 | ‘ You might as well hang around for as long as you can . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Which makes it more difficult for us , ’ said Pooley , ‘ since they did n't hang around for as long as usual , and therefore every single one of them was unobserved by the others for a minimum of half an hour . ’ |
| 5 | We did n't hang around for as long that day — we must rigged the boats ( with a little help ) and prepared to set off . |
| 6 | In utter darkness , breathing rank air and deafened by the breakers outside , he kept himself alive by groping around for newly hatched swiftlet nestlings and the grubs which thrive in the dung on the cave floor . |
| 7 | Lucy said , clambering to her feet and then looking around for anywhere that she might have missed . |
| 8 | We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived . |
| 9 | DO N'T leave your cooked turkey lying around for too long . |
| 10 | We have , we have had that form kicking around for quite a long time and it 's never really been |
| 11 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 12 | They had driven around for over an hour trying to find the rave that every one was going on about . |
| 13 | The woman was then driven around for over an hour and believes part of the journey may have been on a motorway . |
| 14 | It 's too cold to sit around for long , so I get up and walk onto the bridge . |
| 15 | He said , ‘ Nothing worth sticking around for here . |
| 16 | ‘ You could n't have waited half an hour — that 's all the journey from Olbia takes — and saved me the inconvenience of having to hang around for almost an hour ? ’ |
| 17 | He looked around for somewhere to destroy them . |
| 18 | She looked around for somewhere to sit , but the bed looked bigger than ever in the cramped room and his jacket lay discarded on the only chair . |
| 19 | Marcus looked around for somewhere to put his toothbrush . |
| 20 | They looked around for somewhere to hang it . |
| 21 | So I cast around for somewhere else and we found this , in a very poor state of repair . |
| 22 | He searched around for somewhere for them to ride out and try cross-country in earnest , and came up with some tatty farms off the arterial which were within riding distance . |
| 23 | When you 've brawled around for as long as I have your senses get to know the kind of fix that you ca n't just walk through or away from . |
| 24 | You ca n't sit around for ever . |