Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] around [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People might 've messed around with it by putting this overhead profit to risk , they might 've put a negative er element in there , er they might 've put a high-cost element in there , they might put nought in there , so it 's very difficult to recognise that , that bill rates er from the labour , or the labour from the bill rate , there is n't a standard relationship , nowhere near . |
| 2 | I went , and then I went well he ca n't have looked around for us too well because we were walking by the side of the road . |
| 3 | The family may well have moved around from street to street , but by 1785 they were settled in Fountain Lane , that most familiar of Titford haunts . |
| 4 | Consequently , by the time the stone reaches the surface of the earth the tower will have moved around from the position it occupied at the beginning of the stone 's downward journey . |
| 5 | I would have thought around about 15th place would see him happy enough . |
| 6 | I know that the rules for feature-page articles are different from those for reviews , but I do think that Alan Clark , who was given large space on the Times ’ main feature page , could have got around to mentioning the book from which he had taken the material for his strictures of Churchill before his last two paragraphs : ‘ And yet , so docile and leader-oriented is the Conservative Party [ Whoops ! |
| 7 | ‘ Do you think I would have waited around for all this if I had ? ’ |
| 8 | They say he should have waited around like a good boy , taken a few duff , even Duff fights , and he would have been rewarded in due course by boxing 's power brokers . |