Example sentences of "[v-ing] around [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking around all night . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |
| 3 | I have a bunch of hoods lurking around some corner wanting ten thousand pounds that I have not got . |
| 4 | With her diet sorted out , Lisa was also advised to do a lot more exercise , because her job entailed driving around all day rather than walking . |
| 5 | Driving over the wide crossroads , for the second time , without another car to be seen , she had a vision of herself driving around all night . |
| 6 | Rainfall is likely to increase locally , as a result of higher levels of evaporation and transpiration , with sea level rises averaging around one metre . |
| 7 | I felt poor , wandering around lavish shopping precincts , counting pennies in supermarkets , always feeling hungry , saving change for telephone calls , counting my losses . |
| 8 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 9 | ( Occasional controversy in the press has caused public concern that medical records held by computers are less confidential than those left lying around general practice receptionists ' rooms and hospital records offices . |
| 10 | Can you even remember whether this had been volunteered to you , weeks or months before or is this something you found out by asking around that day ? |
| 11 | The teacher invited us round to his cottage one evening for dinner and to talk about releasing owls into the wild , which we had just started doing around that time ( I 'll tell you more about that later ) . |
| 12 | The Chancellor 's admission that the PSBR will reach £50 billion in 1993 is no more than City economists were bandying around last autumn . |
| 13 | Editing : skewing , rotating around any point , blending , combining objects , multi-point editing , unlimited levels of undo and redo , edit all objects |
| 14 | Influence rested on the various branches of the family 's directly controlling around one quarter of the total land area . |
| 15 | that the reason he did n't sleep was because the fact that he was just sitting around all day . |
| 16 | Dark brown horses roamed freely , nosing round the caravans and grazing midst the rubbish , like black bears scavenging around National Park campsites in America . |
| 17 | I remember that Luke , myself and a friend called David Stewart were all talking and messing around one day . |
| 18 | ‘ When we were messing around last year , we were playing the same songs to the same music biz people , ’ asserts softly-spoken guitarist Bernard Butler , softly . |
| 19 | With trippy guitars working around strange out-of-time sampled rhythms , and the obligatory Hammond organ in the wings , Mother Earth are carving themselves an individual niche on Acid Jazz 's strengthening roster . |