Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] around [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both give us the sense of oppression and lack of freedom ; if you are confined to a region , you can only move around in that region . |
| 2 | When the blacksmith decides to make some new tongs for himself , he may just look around for suitable pieces of scrap which he will then fashion into the desired tools . |
| 3 | Do you build a picture in your head before you play anything or do you just jam around over the backing track and wait for something good to happen ? |
| 4 | After leaving the station , we 'd just walk around for ten or fifteen minutes , doubling back on our tracks , heading in through the lobby of a big hotel and straight out again through the rear entrance , until finally we 'd come to some itty-bitty hotel in a back street with a desk in the hallway , and we 'd do the elevator routine . |
| 5 | I could just walk around till morning and then go to the Committee office first thing — ’ |
| 6 | So , if everybody selects the text that they wan of their document and we 'll just play around with it show you what a mess you can actually create using these formatting keys ! |
| 7 | We 'd just sit around in the front parlour of my house and smoke Typhoo Tea in my dad 's pipe . |
| 8 | Not ghastly things which looked all right in the air but turned into freezing wet stuff which was allowed to just lie around on the floor . |
| 9 | While deprecating such tactics as not being in the spirit of scientific inquiry , nevertheless Johanson and others do quickly get around to innuendos about Kalb 's sources of finance . |
| 10 | But in this one you 're right and that makes me right too without having to decide just why I 'm doing this and perhaps doing more than I 'll ever get around to telling you . |
| 11 | If you want gourmet cooking you could always scout around in the village and see what you can get ! |
| 12 | Did you both mess around at the end ? ’ 'Well , it 's really very complicated . |
| 13 | She pictures the relationship between Katherine , the brash and rather unlikely features editor of Woman Now magazine ( do these people really stand around in camisoles dictating gory details about gynaecological examination over radio-phones ? ) and a Russian exile , Slava . |
| 14 | Would you really play around with a five-year-old 's future just because you have a grudge against me ? ’ |
| 15 | The tactile grooming experience also appears to be enjoyed in much the same way a dog likes to be scratched and stroked , and many predatory species forgo the chance of a quick meal in favour of a good grooming allowing the tiny cleaner to even clamber around inside their mouths without harm . |
| 16 | ‘ You might as well hang around for as long as you can . ’ |
| 17 | But you yourself would be even more upset if somebody said to you : " Since your vision is now not absolutely perfect , you might as well go around with your eyes tight shut until you find your glasses again . " |
| 18 | Indeed , the Ventura manual does n't even get around to mentioning the ruler until the end of section 5 in its manual and there are books on the program that do n't mention it at all ! |
| 19 | They never see the sun , never have a chance to socialise or act out many of their most basic instincts and often ca n't even turn around in their pens . |
| 20 | ‘ You invent , or goad me into , some failing to give you cause for complaint , so that you can then screw around with a clear conscience . |
| 21 | And she would not meekly wait around to be married to him ! |
| 22 | He does n't quite go around in wellies and a woolly hat . |
| 23 | He does n't quite go around in wellies and a woolly hat . |
| 24 | Now , I must make this quite clear to you , you ca n't actually mess around with time . |
| 25 | I do n't bloody walk around like that . |
| 26 | If what the hon. Gentleman has just said is true , surely it would mean that any Bill could be amended in almost any way in Committee , and one could subsequently play around with its title in order to accommodate the amendments . |
| 27 | Lazy undergraduates liked them because Lewis did half their work far them — providing summaries of books they would never get around to reading themselves , and lightening his commentaries with entertaining asides . |
| 28 | ‘ Rich women with closets full of clothes they 'll never get around to wearing . |
| 29 | These eleven tracks ( 16 on the CD ) sound half-improvised , some perhaps quick-fire sketches for other pieces they 'll never get around to writing . |
| 30 | These eleven tracks ( 16 on the CD ) sound half-improvised , some perhaps quick-fire sketches for other pieces they 'll never get around to writing . |