Example sentences of "[noun sg] around [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the thing , the thing to do is to sort of dot around in the conversation things like pre antidisestablishmentarianism . |
| 2 | They then move their hands along the string in a rhythmic motion and try to pass the ring around without the person in the middle seeing it . |
| 3 | Robert had said , with a nervous glance around at the other passengers . |
| 4 | Casting a despairing glance around at the stark walls of the interview-room in the police station , she took a deep unsteady breath . |
| 5 | A little later this Mexican boy who worked for us took Russell 's horse around to the stable . |
| 6 | Plus the fact that he was throwing his weight around with the police seemed to say Whitehall and no small potatoes , so we started with that . |
| 7 | He stared across the table at me , rolling the empty tumbler around on the wooden table-top . |
| 8 | I thought whatever 's that dancing around in the bedroom . |
| 9 | And at the swap over they had to swap equipment around for the reorganization . |
| 10 | As you begin to send your work around to the various publications , keep a record of which stories and poems have gone where . |
| 11 | If we are to maintain confidence in the system , there is no point in our mucking around with the map several times in each Parliament . |
| 12 | Modules , in this sense , do not have access to the contents of other modules and , in Carl Hewitt of MIT 's immortal words , ‘ modules should n't be able to dicker around with the insides of their neighbours ’ . |
| 13 | There is a certain silliness around in the country . |
| 14 | A mother penguin can find her very own youngster in a colony of several thousand , even after many days at sea , having left the young one to mill around on the ice with thousand of others which to us appear to be identical . |
| 15 | I suppose the winning streak had to come to an end sometime and really it 's better now when we can do something about it than at crimble when it 'll be more difficult to start shifting the team around in the more hectic fixture list . |
| 16 | ‘ You see it happening all the time , the move around between the carer and the resident as to who is the adult and who is the child . |
| 17 | After ringing the bell several times she reluctantly pushed her husband 's letter through the letter-box — he had very meanly sealed it before she could read it — and took the holdall around to the boiler room at the back of the house . |
| 18 | Asmodeus reined his devil steed around to the front of the cab . |
| 19 | The joke around at the time was that it would be filmed with a hand-held camera . |
| 20 | She pushed her spoon around in the delicious minestra soup , and forced herself to eat some . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ he said , skipping on through the amateur boxing and back around to the broadcast channels again . |
| 22 | Startled , he turned , but Therese had darted , scooping her peacock train up over one arm , back around behind the screen , to the side he should have been on . |
| 23 | The subtleties of the contest — running off the ball , watching an individual contest between two players rather than following the ball around through the camera lens — may be sacrificed but these failings have not deterred the audience . |
| 24 | ‘ We like to play the ball around like the Continentals , but we still work as hard as any team in England . ’ |
| 25 | Gloucester beat Bristol 29–15 after both sides decided to throw the ball around in the sun at Kingsholm . |
| 26 | Before that , I recognised the building under the trees , de luxe bedroom suites now , but still the same structure , on the left-hand side of the drive , just before the sweep around to the hotel steps : ‘ The stables which formed part of the rectangle of low buildings out of which that archway to the henyard led , had long been disused but somebody swept them now and then , dusted the curved metal hay racks , wiped manger and woodwork and shone the brass tethering rings so brightly than whenever we pushed a door open and looked into the dusky twilight we were welcomed by a small round gleam of light . ’ |
| 27 | Had n't Naylor Massingham been the only other person around at the time of that incident ? |
| 28 | In keeping with the curious mixture of house-made talents and lethal weaponry which is the hallmark of South African police operations , Coetzee carried most of the stuff around in the boot of his car . |
| 29 | He pushed a bead around on the end of his finger . |
| 30 | I do not think that any incoming party with any set of policies could turn the economy around over the next six months . |