Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] around [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do run around after my kids — Leonie , 5 , and Danielle , 9 — quite a bit , but then I 'm always nibbling their leftovers too . |
| 2 | some people actually do drive around in area |
| 3 | When boys do get around to talking among themselves about what it was like they are more likely to lie . |
| 4 | At one point , however , they did get around to Marius Steen and the circumstances of his death . |
| 5 | He never did get around to framing it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Only because I realised I never did get around to telling you that you are , without question , the most insolent , wilful , egocentric human being I 've ever met ! ’ |
| 7 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 8 | well then we 'd all be tremendously specific , well let me ask some one who does drive around on the closest we 've got to a tank driver here , Gillian you drive something very large |
| 9 | Even though he does fly around in funny tights ! |