Example sentences of "[noun pl] around [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can always grow it back and there are some great wigs around at the moment . |
| 2 | She swished the dregs around at the bottom of her can . |
| 3 | The second solution is to try to carry ambiguities around in the form of constraints [ Sussman & steele , 1980 ] . |
| 4 | The latter approach attempts to carry these ambiguities around in the form of constraints . |
| 5 | Grant casts his eyes around at the casualties of a drink-based evening albeit mainly non-alcoholic , and demurs , seeing that mild hysteria has set in . |
| 6 | When he cast his eyes around for the one place that seemed , for a man of business , the least affected by the tumult of war , the shrewd Samuel decided on Tangier . |
| 7 | Continue the lines around to the side edge of the door and mark the position of the mortise in the centre of the door edge . |
| 8 | Make the grab move some blocks around on the screen and the manipulator gives the user a sense of the weights and solids involved . |
| 9 | The influence of Argyll and Milton clearly had proved insufficient to turn matters around in the excise establishment at Inverkeithing where it would have done most good . |
| 10 | I like mountains around about the 6000 , lower 7000m range . |
| 11 | A safe distance from shore all sails were set and , with the last anchor hauled in , the mizzen and foresails were backed — the crew hanging far out over the deep-blue water to keep the booms at an angle that would force her bows around towards the south so that her mainsails could fill . |
| 12 | Our second assignment was to paddle the boats around with the daggerboard — basically just a large , flat piece of wood . |
| 13 | Paul Gascoigne is also troubled by a cold , but he trained yesterday afternoon and , apart from Platt , it is only Batty and Dixon who are real concerns , and Taylor added : ‘ I know I may have to look at bringing another right-back and a midfielder , but I am keeping my fingers crossed about Dixon because there are no other right-backs around at the moment . ’ |
| 14 | Sigourney was coming on last and we were going to move the seats around during the interval because we felt that she might not be able to concentrate sitting next to the heavily made-up and highly camp Julian . |
| 15 | There are some great hair and skin care collections around for the guys . |
| 16 | Riding the ‘ Double Ferris Wheel ’ awards its own bonus or a quick score and , as with most pinball tables around at the moment , there 's a multiball feature that sends a multitude of steel balls singing around ( you 'll need three eyes and four arms to keep them all in play for any decent amount of time ! ) . |
| 17 | " I 've pulled the teams around from the yard plenty of times . |
| 18 | ‘ There are some really good women writers around at the moment ; Shawn Colvin 's excellent , and so 's a woman called Ferron , although she got kind of pigeonholed into ‘ women 's music ’ , and I think that 's limited her audience . |
| 19 | ‘ But just knowing that Walter is likely to change things around for the next big game is enough to keep me going . ’ |
| 20 | There was another fellow running about there like us , someone from the guesthall , hefting things around off the altars . |
| 21 | What makes Cerebral Fix — ex-Sounds EP stars — stand out is the way they 're busy twisting things around in the Death/Doom category . |
| 22 | What makes Cerebral Fix — ex-Sounds EP stars — stand out is the way they 're busy twisting things around in the Death/Doom category . |
| 23 | Barrie Corless says it seems criminal that a side like Gloucester were facing relegation last season so he will be looking how they can improve … he adds there were problems last year and it wouyld be unrealistic to hope for instant success but hopes to turn things around in the not too distant future |
| 24 | All the main banks stress that they do not want to boss firms around in the German style , nor do they want to send in managers or directors . |
| 25 | ‘ I knew very quickly that to get the kitchen exactly how we wanted it , we 'd have to swap rooms around on the ground floor . |
| 26 | There were a few small birds around in the hazel branches but that was all . |
| 27 | you know it 's only stacks around with the wire round it and er |
| 28 | The guitars also had some of the thinnest necks , the lowest , fastest frets and the best vibratos around at the time . |
| 29 | At any moment , he told himself , I will find myself up on my legs , waving my arms around in the air and giving . |
| 30 | He despised homosexuals , and although there were plenty of other sexually depraved aristocrats around at the time , he was unfortunate enough to have married into a family ( the Montreuils ) who had strong court connections , and it was they who made sure that he was jailed , partly to get him off their backs ( so to Speak ) and partly as an example to others . |