Example sentences of "[noun] around in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nuns On The Run is a farcical Carry On-style Hand Made film where Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle have a perfect licence to prance around in stuffed bras and habits . |
| 2 | How dare the Nottinghamshire police suppose they can throw their weight around in this way ? |
| 3 | Fully-laden take-offs and five-minute controlled climbs may be OK for a formal C of A air test , but you ca n't ( or should n't ) chuck an aeroplane around in that state . |
| 4 | Then if we go on a step further and consider that Paul says the wife 's body does not belong to her alone , that means the husband must have some authority to move the limbs around in various patterns . |
| 5 | He 's got no money to spend , and when he turned a losing team around in 1983 he had four or five exceptional and emerging players in his squad . |
| 6 | So I ‘ phoned Washburn , explained the problem and was put onto one Nick who , after a quick ferret around in various boxes , told me he 'd stick one in the post . |
| 7 | He would be instructed to pass the word around in militant loyalist circles that he was an informer so that he would be assassinated . |
| 8 | The gull wing doors which are unique to the TB range — and decidedly difficult to open when you 're standing on the wing — provide good access once you 're used to them and must be the easiest escape routes around in light aviation if there is a mishap . |
| 9 | I think if you go back a hundred years the problems in British culture were much worse , but nonetheless I do think there 's a tremendous arrogance around in modern so-called civilized Britain , and particularly when they talk about the ancient civilization of Israel , I just think that they were a far more humane nation than we are . |
| 10 | One or two species of fruit bats , however , for instance Rousettus , are capable of finding their way around in total darkness where eyes , however good , must be powerless . |
| 11 | And there was no nylon around in those days . |