Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] around [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No you had two like that , er I hope we do n't break down going home Phillip so I 'll feel a twat walking around with your work socks |
| 2 | A gang walking around in public brandishing bicycle chains could have been convicted . |
| 3 | Inside , the decor is Early Seventies Porn Film chic : thick carpet , round-the-wall bench sofa , huge melamine coffee table , breakfast bar — everything , in fact , except badly-recorded wah-wah guitar and bearded blokes called Sven walking around in towels . |
| 4 | Sometimes what we 're talking about is people a drunken undergraduate hanging around in college bars |
| 5 | Erm no I went away for the weekend this weekend and er made four ta tapes of me and Frank in the car driving around from er we went to erm Oxford first then we went to Bournemouth , then we went to Winchester and then we went to Cheltenham , . |
| 6 | ‘ Though I 've got to tell you there 's some gossip going around about the cousin you 've got staying . ’ |
| 7 | Well , seem funny a boxer going around with a tail wo n't it ? |
| 8 | Any rock lying around on the frozen continent stands a good chance of being a meteorite as — the occasional ice-piercing mountain aside — there is nowhere else to come from but the heavens . |
| 9 | If that was n't enough , what in heaven 's name is that lethal figure running around in the hold , like some latter-day Frankenstein 's monster ? ’ |
| 10 | She gingerly fingers her purple marbled temple , blood swilling around under the skin . |
| 11 | With the question circling around in her head , and certain she would lie awake in confused alarm , she fell asleep almost instantly . |
| 12 | The property room looked like a theatrical battlefield with masks and armour lying around in different stages of completion . |
| 13 | And then comes another machine ( or the previous one with a new attachment ) which sucks up all the nuts and any other loose debris lying around on the ground . |
| 14 | DO N'T leave your cooked turkey lying around for too long . |
| 15 | If you were an ant crawling around in G– , it would seem at each node as if you were on G. The only way to tell the difference is that in G , if you go far enough in the right direction , then you arrive back where you began ; whereas in G– , the only way to return to the start is by retracing your steps . |
| 16 | They were watching , because a machine rolling around by itself is something that you do watch , even if you 've just had to climb a tree or hide behind a hedge . |
| 17 | There ought to be enough intelligence sloshing around in the world for humans to have some too . |
| 18 | The story going around at the time was that he had ticked off the Lebanese bureau staff to the point where they sold him to Hezbollah for a bit of peace and quiet ! |
| 19 | We heard that the Lincolnshire and Yorkshire stations lost far more men and aircraft than we did , and there was also a horrible story going around of an unfortunate rear gunner trapped in his turret as his plane landed , unable to get out and being roasted alive in full view of the ground crew , until a Wing Commander whipped out his revolver and shot him . |
| 20 | The thought of her husband fumbling around in bed and urgently attempting to rouse her left her feeling suddenly depressed . |
| 21 | She tried to see if he were concealed among the group hanging around near the circolo , but without lifting her eyes to scan them like a strumpet . |
| 22 | ‘ When I see my postman driving around in his van with the radio on , I crave his job . |
| 23 | This time he stood in the centre of the room , plainly unsure as to what had brought him in , his eye searching around for something to fasten on , like someone in mid-speech forgetting what they had to say . |
| 24 | Most players have a battered specimen lying around in a cupboard somewhere ; a few sensible types even use one as their main instrument , and as a result will probably retain their hearing well into the next century . |
| 25 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 26 | Someone as important as a SenFed Emissary creeping around in secret . |
| 27 | Hughes became the puzzled spectator of his own life , examining his own beleaguered existence like a tourist poking around in the ruins . |
| 28 | ‘ I think he 's got no damned business playing around with Silvia . |
| 29 | When I tried this sort of stuff before , I had one flight in a sort of plywood packing-case painted the colour of the blue stuff they used to paint on your balls when you got crabs and spent the rest of the day hanging around with a pack of strangle-voiced bores in bobble hats . |
| 30 | I do n't suppose he was pleased to find an ageing trombonist hanging around outside his gate , distracting his daughter from her future . |