Example sentences of "[vb past] around a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was why her mother had n't wrapped them up but had left them on her pillow twined around a single rose . |
| 2 | Inkeroinen is a scattering of shops and houses clustered around a small railway junction . |
| 3 | ‘ Lucenzo — ’ Her hand was grabbed and she was being dragged along behind him as he shouldered his way through a group clustered around a hilarious puppet-show . |
| 4 | FOLLOW-UP to their club congenial ‘ Pot Of Gold ’ ( there 's a remix around well worth picking up ) , ‘ Mixed Moods ’ contains four variations on a theme crafted around a gorgeous string-infected format , of which some will be more effective earlier in the evening whilst the remainder will nurse any wounds left open from the evening 's proceedings . |
| 5 | They talked of hereditary occupations in the Highlands ; the rigour of church rules and creeds ; they looked at Latin books , and tiptoed around a delicate matter — whether Johnson the Anglican might wish to hear Mr MacAulay say their Presbyterian prayers in the household , which Boswell doubted . |
| 6 | Caught off guard for a few moments , the gap between the two cars widened noticeably , before the cab screeched around a right-hand bend , losing it altogether . |
| 7 | The simularity in the centre of the refectory was even displaying the company logo : the letters IMC in brushed duralinium , curved around a spiral galaxy . |
| 8 | Twoflower hung on as best he could as Ninereeds swooped through a succession of caverns and soared around a spiral staircase that could easily have accommodated a retreating army . |
| 9 | A narrow stairway of glossy marble led straight into a sitting room arranged around a huge open fireplace . |
| 10 | Domain II ( residues 291 to 500 ) consists of three β sheets , composed of four , four and three strands respectively , packed around a triangular core . |
| 11 | While he continued to raise the spectre of a return to German hegemony , his new policy ( voiced for the first time at Bordeaux in September 1949 ) revolved around a Franco-German entente , which he saw as the basis for a European confederation . |
| 12 | Delegations from Israel , Syria and Lebanon , and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation , met around a single conference table in the Royal Palace , Madrid , on Oct. 30 , 31 and Nov. 1 , and held bilateral talks in the Palacio de Parcente on Nov. 3 . |
| 13 | Jay 's rainbow wings fluttered around a sun-sparkling river that had become her life , where she had been moping by an old canal full of dead shopping trolleys for years . |
| 14 | In it , seated around a grand-looking boardroom table in splendid high-backed chairs , were Mojo and Debbie Nixon , their agents , managers and solicitors . |
| 15 | A ten-minute soak worked wonders on Merrill 's jaded sense of well-being , and when she went down she found the three of them seated around a huge log fire . |
| 16 | ENTIRE EPISODES in 1988 centred around a clandestine teen love affair ; the ostensible excuse for the lovers to meet was always ‘ I must show him/her my new copy of NME . ’ |
| 17 | The tiny racing cars , operated by two sponsored five-men teams , zoomed around a 24-yard track competing for a trophy donated by Major Marques car restorers of Sherborne . |
| 18 | The water-power age produced hamlets , at the most small villages , gathered around a new mill . |
| 19 | Now and again the walkway became even more narrow as a pavement café spilled its chairs and tables upon it , tempting the strolling shopper to stop for refreshment ; here and there a small crowd gathered around a solitary musician or a group of young teenagers singing , the plates at their feet covered in kroner as a testament to their audience 's approval . |
| 20 | Plant remains — seeds , grains , and pollens — show what species of plants and trees grew around a particular site , what plants were being deliberately cultivated , and sometimes what the plants would yield in an average harvest . |
| 21 | It is the energy release when material accreted around a black hole spirals into the stable orbit with lowest energy . |
| 22 | Mathers smiled around a fresh bite of Danish . |
| 23 | I waited around a few minutes and had a chance to talk with Tony Dorigo and met his mother who works in the Digital office in Birmingham . |
| 24 | Lake Turkana fluctuated around a maximum level between 9.5kyr and 7.5kyr ago , and the highest shoreline on Lake Suguta has a radiocarbon age of 9.70.2kyr . |
| 25 | The Conservatives relied more on monetary policy , and , with R. A. Butler as Chancellor of the Exchequer , interest rates fluctuated around a rising trend , and gradually forced up the BEA 's borrowing costs . |
| 26 | In the cellar are six Skeletons manacled around a half-collapsed wooden table piled high with the desiccated and thoroughly foul remains of a meal set out on silver serving plates ( worth 5 GCs in total ) . |
| 27 | Of all the detectives she could afford , Maureen had hired this odd little man who looked as though he were play-acting , managed to be obtrusive when he was doing absolutely nothing and carried around a herbal cure for his blocked nose . |
| 28 | But instead , my fingers closed around a small , ice-cold hand ! |
| 29 | I palpated the abdomen with a grim certainty as to what I would find and there was no surprise , only a dull sadness as my fingers closed around a hard lobulated mass deep among the viscera . |
| 30 | A well-designed aparthotel with good quality accommodation set around a superb swimming pool . |