Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] around [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both give us the sense of oppression and lack of freedom ; if you are confined to a region , you can only move around in that region . |
| 2 | The armed robber , needless to say , did not stay around to be sued . |
| 3 | It does not rampage around like a chariot for example . |
| 4 | Rincewind did not glance around for fear of the terrible things he might see , and by the time Withel looked for him again he was on the other side of the Plaza , and still accelerating . |
| 5 | This is odd as over 85 per cent of Saabs , including Carlssons , are sold to business users , who presumably do not hang around outside nightclubs in the evening . |
| 6 | When the blacksmith decides to make some new tongs for himself , he may just look around for suitable pieces of scrap which he will then fashion into the desired tools . |
| 7 | Only the suspicion that he had something important to say and could not work around to saying it kept her out there with him . |
| 8 | Do you build a picture in your head before you play anything or do you just jam around over the backing track and wait for something good to happen ? |
| 9 | Five-year-old Boris Primorac suffers from a rare blood disorder which means he can not run around like other children , without severe bruising . |
| 10 | Hostel dwellers do not move around from place to place as much as many people think . |
| 11 | You do not call out , you do not lay around on the floor . |
| 12 | After leaving the station , we 'd just walk around for ten or fifteen minutes , doubling back on our tracks , heading in through the lobby of a big hotel and straight out again through the rear entrance , until finally we 'd come to some itty-bitty hotel in a back street with a desk in the hallway , and we 'd do the elevator routine . |
| 13 | I could just walk around till morning and then go to the Committee office first thing — ’ |
| 14 | So , if everybody selects the text that they wan of their document and we 'll just play around with it show you what a mess you can actually create using these formatting keys ! |
| 15 | ‘ Do not fence around with me , ’ he snapped . |
| 16 | ‘ … who bears a close resemblance to our school janitor , Aziz — although , as far as I know , Aziz does not wander around with a tea towel on his head organizing terrorist attacks — Yasser Arafat — ’ |
| 17 | We 'd just sit around in the front parlour of my house and smoke Typhoo Tea in my dad 's pipe . |
| 18 | But I would rather not fiddle around with other , I 'd rather have not done tha well , no I wanted to do language when I when I put my options down , but now , |
| 19 | Not ghastly things which looked all right in the air but turned into freezing wet stuff which was allowed to just lie around on the floor . |
| 20 | The evolutionary advantage of this is that the animal need not lie around in a torpid state , vulnerable to attack . |
| 21 | Our main 1979 survey suggested that weekly-collection credit users do not shop around for bargains as much as others . |
| 22 | The plaintiff can not shop around for the best offer , the two parties must deal with each other and strike an acceptable bargain through their own negotiating skill . |
| 23 | While deprecating such tactics as not being in the spirit of scientific inquiry , nevertheless Johanson and others do quickly get around to innuendos about Kalb 's sources of finance . |
| 24 | But in this one you 're right and that makes me right too without having to decide just why I 'm doing this and perhaps doing more than I 'll ever get around to telling you . |
| 25 | If you want gourmet cooking you could always scout around in the village and see what you can get ! |
| 26 | Did you both mess around at the end ? ’ 'Well , it 's really very complicated . |
| 27 | She pictures the relationship between Katherine , the brash and rather unlikely features editor of Woman Now magazine ( do these people really stand around in camisoles dictating gory details about gynaecological examination over radio-phones ? ) and a Russian exile , Slava . |
| 28 | Would you really play around with a five-year-old 's future just because you have a grudge against me ? ’ |
| 29 | In my attitude , you know , I , I think you know I think they 're all prats and stuff and I do n't joke around like that . |
| 30 | Still it 's hard to believe the young warlord wo n't rattle around in his armoury for just the right mace . |