Example sentences of "[vb base] around [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fumble around for the rest of my kit and fall over Shelagh , who is shining a torch gingerly in one of her boots . |
| 2 | We just used to banter , have the odd drink together , fool around in the snow . |
| 3 | The young men mill around in the wasteground , their fury and their hormones surging . |
| 4 | . Walk around with the whole bloody classroom . |
| 5 | they , they do n't know just walk around in the warehouse , they are |
| 6 | Well yes , but I mean it 's she seems to do the opposite thing to Charlotte , cos she used to sleep in the morning and fidget around in the afternoons and this one fidgets all morning and then sleeps in the afternoon . |
| 7 | A full service history is essential and mechanical repair can be expensive , so shop around for the top examples . |
| 8 | Shop around for the best possible deals and the best service . |
| 9 | Shop around for the system which will best suit the practice concerned rather than accept the most readily available ( such as the packages which the computer salesman will be keen to sell with the machine ) . |
| 10 | So if you are foaming over the price of a pint , shop around for the special offers . |
| 11 | With higher power , you need more light , so bigger lenses — so try 8x30 , 8x40 , 10x40 or 10x50 at a good store , and shop around for the best price . |
| 12 | My job is to trap conspirators , plotters … not stumble around in the dark after some secret assassin . ’ |
| 13 | Following news that it was working on a 64-bit Sparc RISC version of very long instruction word technology ( UX No 381 ) , Bell Atlantic Corp , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , is now claiming that there will be a multi-processing , superscalar Sparc Unix machine around by the end of the year that will incorporate the VLIW Trace scheduling compilers which originated from now defunct Multiflow Computers Inc . |
| 14 | He made such a fine job of the earth , the sea and the hills ; He made an equally fine job of the creatures , large and small that run around on the land ; He even gave us the best crags in the world … |
| 15 | So there was always a bottle of Reisling and a guitar , his Japanese kimono and him staying in bed , looking out of the window at the wolves chasing the train as we went through Siberia in the snow , whereas Geoffrey McCormack ( or Warren Peace as he was known professionally ) and I would get off at nearly every stop if we were awake , and run around on the platform . |
| 16 | It 's the sort of thing it is easy to observe if you stand around in the garage during practice or generally stick around a team , watching who gets the first briefing , who is paying more attention to whom . |
| 17 | Once I was able to escape from my orange box and ferret around among the other barrows , I quickly discovered that he was reckoned by the locals to be the finest trader in the East End . |
| 18 | Preoccupied with the thoughts of his suffering , the trivial concerns of her lover become increasingly aggravating as they hang around with the crowds at Brighton . |
| 19 | There you hang around opposite the Coronet till a bus comes . |
| 20 | In this new shape , it can accommodate molecules called G-proteins , which hang around inside the cell . |
| 21 | Dr Tyrrell says the real danger of infection from a sneeze is invisible : ‘ It is not the big blobs of mucus that are the problem , it is the smaller , invisible droplets which hang around in the air for several minutes after a sneeze . ’ |
| 22 | They 're sentiments that come from falling between the two factions that all but dominate life in Oxford 's social centre : the yuppified , well-heeled types who hang around in the bars and bistros of the city 's bohemian quarter , and the massive student population . |
| 23 | He began to tidy it up and look around for the plastic bag . |
| 24 | Most popular are precast concrete paviours and slabs , but look around for the more interesting surface textures and designs . |
| 25 | ‘ At Elland Road I was expected to go and win the ball and that was about all they liked ! ! — get the ball up to the big front men and look around for the knock downs ’ ( Batts obviously did nt look very hard cos he did nt find many ! ! ) |
| 26 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 27 | I look around at the milling people , imagining we 'll be split up into smaller groups and led through the blank doors to sit in armchairs and watch a TV set on some kind of plinth . |
| 28 | Especially when I look around at the bug-eyed gawkers staring , almost hypnotised , at the images . |
| 29 | And if you look around at the world and try and find the women in positions of power , you have to say , where are they ? |
| 30 | Look around at the furniture , the colour of the walls , what you are wearing . |