Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Bangholm reports that members of the club are hanging around the hall as girls are leaving and some of them are rather afraid . |
| 2 | In the closing years of the nineteenth century , just as the eastern Germans were leaving the land and deserting the east , at the very time that the Polish population of the border districts was on the rise , the theoretical and practical policies of both the Polenpolitik and the Kulturkampf were hardening around the drive towards industrial and imperial expansion — if not overseas , which was almost impossible — then in the eastern borderlands . |
| 3 | all bit and everything 's come out so of course the horse is running around free and he 's trying to catch it |
| 4 | In contrast the American pairings were a mere nine under par between them , albeit on an afternoon when the wind was swirling around the course causing all sorts of problems with club selection . |
| 5 | A butterfly was flapping around the wheelbarrow looking for a fragrance to match the colour of that great metallic flower . |
| 6 | The desert was shaking around them . |
| 7 | One of the factors common to businesses that have fallen on hard times is an inability to adapt and change and a failure to recognise that the market place is changing around them . |
| 8 | From left to right , a spinning maelstrom of snow and rain was sweeping around the block like a tornado . |
| 9 | Corbett knew he had to leave but the room was spinning around him and he fell gratefully into the gathering blackness . |
| 10 | The smoke was swirling around him , affecting his unprotected eyes and making him choke . |
| 11 | Much rubbish , mostly lengths of steel angle iron and sheet steel was lying around the building and sadly all traces of railway embellishments , fencing , paving lighting and signs had long been swept away , leaving just mud , weeds and scrub . |
| 12 | The pathetic , skinny dog was scratching around the dustbin searching for the slightest bit of food , until she took one look at me and shot off with her tail between her legs . |
| 13 | A legal row is brewing around the University of California at Berkeley ‘ AT&T code-free ’ BSD4.3 and 4.4 operating system releases , resulting in Unix System Laboratories filing a complaint with the New Jersey Federal Court against Berkeley Software Design Inc ( BSDI ) , an independent company in Falls Church , Virginia that uses the BSD software as the basis for commercial products . |
| 14 | ‘ The whole vision was crumbling around me . |
| 15 | ‘ The world is crumbling around me , Wilson , ’ she said , the words so faint only a finely attuned ear could have heard them . |
| 16 | The Doctor 's pacing around the cage had stopped . |
| 17 | The world was caving around him , and he did not know yet from which quarter the disaster would fall , only that its arrival was certain . |
| 18 | Precisely the same thing was happening around the Lancashire towns also , where the ancient commons were enclosed and grabbed by the private speculator for building , as at Oldham . |
| 19 | The needle was flickering around the eighty mark most of the way . |
| 20 | P.C. Torney claimed that Hickson 's story was fabrication , and said the youth was prancing around the room at the police station , boxing and boasting of his prowess as a boxer … as a result of the boisterous behaviour , he caught his eye on a window-ledge . |
| 21 | Microsoft Corp is kicking around the idea of moving portions of Windows to Unix with companies like Insignia Software Inc , according to PC Week . |
| 22 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |
| 23 | During the early opencast mining period , IBM admits dust containing cyanide , lead and zinc was blowing around the area . |
| 24 | Somewhere in the formless murk , a lone blues trumpet was improvising around ‘ Love for Sale ’ . |
| 25 | Every kind of bird was circling around Little Billy and Swan , and the Minpins on their backs were waving and clapping and shouting with joy . |
| 26 | A story was circulating around school that Frankie 's mother had been very ill and one of his aunts was responsible for him having nits in his head and a dirty body , torn pumps , bitten nails and no dinner money . |
| 27 | The big black Mercedes was still outside and now its boot and all its doors were open and Mr and Mrs Wormwood and the brother were scurrying around it like ants , piling in the suitcases , as Matilda and Miss Honey came dashing up . |
| 28 | Later , at the staff table , Sarah told Catriona and Patrice that she was from New York and that she and her mother were travelling around Europe . |
| 29 | A copy is not of itself a will and therefore even if the copy is kicking around er that wo n't effect the matter . |
| 30 | The solution is thickening around him , moment by moment . |