Example sentences of "[noun pl] going [adv prt] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pops and bangs going off around the Porte de Versailles last week signalled a European industry in panic as the date for free access to the European market by the Japanese gets ever closer . |
| 2 | Yet , judging by the earnest discussions going on around her , the melancholy theme seemed to have had the effect of switching everyone 's thoughts away from the actual tragedy that had happened in their midst . |
| 3 | Sandeep , used only to life in a Bombay high-rise , is hypnotised by the daily rituals going on around him — his aunt rubbing oil into her black hair , his uncle retiring to the lavatory with an ashtray , a newspaper and a pair of reading glasses . |
| 4 | With all these activities going on around you , ‘ time out ’ is definitely needed . |
| 5 | Travel to and from work may have been combined with other activities , or with a knowledge of other activities going on around them . |
| 6 | I do n't happen to think bolting is in the least bit environmentally damaging ( at least not compared with other activities going on around it ) but mechanical drills are bound to give it a bad image — the message her is ‘ bolters , do your stuff in winter or at night . ’ |
| 7 | There were enough activities going on around the field ; surely there was somewhere his services were needed ? |
| 8 | ‘ There are some funny things going on around here . ’ |
| 9 | It is certain that the Leapors would have been aware of the changes going on around them , especially since Philip Leapor would have been hired for landscaping projects . |
| 10 | Young people were already feeling insecure because of the far-reaching changes going on around them and the uncertainties about the reform programme . |
| 11 | Blind to the destructive changes going on around them , blind to some of the human costs of industrialised progress , blind to the suffering of other countries . |
| 12 | Sometimes she even managed to shut her ears to the arguments going on around her . |
| 13 | So many television transmissions , and some of these are now on CD video , provide endless , often arbitrary , shots of the conductor at the expense of the musical developments going on around him . |
| 14 | Seemingly standing rigid like a statue , his eyes are fixed on page one of the script while peripheral vision is trying to take in every detail of events going on around him in the studio . |
| 15 | He was trying to grasp the events going on around him . |
| 16 | Track ( i.e. hum the tune silently out aloud to yourself a bit behind the speaker ) while listening to radio , TV , public speeches , and to conversations going on around you . |