Example sentences of "[verb] around with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I like walking around with music blasting anyway , I 'd rather listen to the birds . |
| 2 | There 's been everything from violent sieges to people walking around with shooters . |
| 3 | sick about this is , B C C one , if they wan na put in a bunk what 's wrong with the big four , I mean you do n't prat around with B C C one |
| 4 | Meanwhile , there are some pretty primitive creatures driving around with money in their Torpedoes and Boomerangs , or sitting down with money at the Mahatma or the Assisi , or just standing there with money , in the shops , in the pubs , in the streets . |
| 5 | George pushed a door open and stood back , and she walked into the room and stood in the center of it looking around with curiosity . |
| 6 | She sipped it through a straw looking around with interest . |
| 7 | The boys were looking around with interest . |
| 8 | Jenna grinned at her and got into the car , looking around with pleasure as Marguerite reversed from the garage and turned to the track . |
| 9 | After a great deal of hunting around with flashlights , the plain-clothes policemen were forced to go away empty-handed . |
| 10 | When I go to their gigs they all walk around with cartons of orange juice . |
| 11 | The instructors walk around with weapons on their belts and constantly remind their pupils to don their ear protectors . |
| 12 | He messed around with health , and look at the mess we are in . |
| 13 | ‘ I mess around with motor-bikes actually . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been in hurricanes on the Florida Keys and there 's plenty of time to flirt around with fear . |
| 15 | In Darcy 's Utopia , however , though love will flourish , and pleasure abound , furtive alliances be formal and reformed , and sexual excitements be breathless and secret and glorious , marriage will be beset around with difficulties and obstacles and deep seriousness : only the very determined will marry . |
| 16 | Seth suggests that our beliefs are like children 's playing blocks , which can be moved around with ease : ‘ … all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play , as opposed to work . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd always hung around with boys , never really known any men — certainly no man had ever made me feel and think the dreadful things I felt and thought whenever I saw you ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You 'll also need a better cover story , ’ he added , ‘ if you 're going to be seen around with Hurley and his crowd . |
| 19 | All of this racketing around with has-beens and yet-to-bes , filming on rented sets in disused warehouses , ought to have been doomed to failure , even laughed off the screen . |
| 20 | But one child I know caught his parents prowling around with stockings at the dead of night and is now impressing upon his little pals that the whole thing is a con . |
| 21 | That belief took a severe knock with the screening of Cutting Edge , which showed a pupil beheading a rabbit ( said later to have myxomatosis ) , boys prowling around with weapons , and girls fighting over stolen make-up . |
| 22 | The sheer freedom to play around with typefaces , styles and sizes — a process impossible with conventional word processing or typesetting — tends to mean that users will try all the possible combinations . |
| 23 | She encourages customers to play around with samples so they feel they are helping to design their own rooms . |
| 24 | Old women in white coats were clattering around with loofahs and stainless-steel buckets and throwing water over motionless pink men on slabs . |
| 25 | ‘ But the writers wanted Boon to tear around with buildings blowing up , like something out of The Sweeney . |
| 26 | After dinner we continued to fiddle around with tackle and were joined by Mr. Ferguson and his son , Paul , who were also booked in for the same week . |
| 27 | They stand around with rulers and clipboards . |
| 28 | And she 'd take him off to the second-hand bookstall which specialized in the politics of the left , or to attend a useful meeting , and stand around with banners . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the paper says IBM is dickering around with notions of making an OEM systems and board-level push on behalf of its own RISC chip , the PowerPC , separate from Motorola Inc , which is selling the silicon . |
| 30 | Some afternoons he was forced onto the field and trotted around with boredom . |