Example sentences of "[vb infin] around [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't fuck around with me . |
| 2 | There was a girl called Carmen , she was the queen Reject , she just let me hang around with them so she could sneer at me for being a moony . |
| 3 | I did n't hang around with her much anyway . |
| 4 | I ca n't hang around with anyone , if I hang around with anyone that 's a smackhead for more than a couple of days , then it 's going to be tempting , so I 've got to keep meself away from them . |
| 5 | huh , what , I 'm sulking yes so I can hang around to whoever I want to hang around with |
| 6 | In her shocked lethargy , she seemed content to let Valerie run around after her and do everything for her . |
| 7 | ‘ I do run around after my kids — Leonie , 5 , and Danielle , 9 — quite a bit , but then I 'm always nibbling their leftovers too . |
| 8 | If something needed doing Eva Burrows did n't look around for someone else to see to it . |
| 9 | When a nurse first saw him move around in his bed , she gave him a pencil and piece of paper : he wrote a note asking for his watch . |
| 10 | Obviously , they would look pretty stupid wearing a T-shirt that read , ‘ That 's a nice dress you 're wearing ’ , so they may lounge around in something which relays almost the same message , but in a more roundabout way . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't mess around with me ! ’ he interrupted with the savage snarl of an angry lion , making Meredith take a step back in astonishment . |
| 12 | But this is like the argument about nature and the biosphere : of whether you can mess around with it as much as you like , and expect it to survive . |
| 13 | However , if you are unsure of what to do , do n't mess around for what could be a simple job for a trained engineer can turn into a nightmare if an inexperienced user starts to experiment . |
| 14 | So , in the following exercises try and throw all these preconceived ideas away , just as the impetuous child would go ahead and fool around in his own way . |
| 15 | The one I 'd considered earlier , but they refuse single people because they would rattle around on their own . |
| 16 | Still it 's hard to believe the young warlord wo n't rattle around in his armoury for just the right mace . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Here are , do n't try and walk around with them then . |
| 19 | But I would n't walk around with them like that ! |
| 20 | So I suppose what you do with Debs is er tell them you want the whole discount and I suppose they give you a card for each floor cos you ca n't walk around with it each floor can you ? |
| 21 | I can remember , you see I do n't think today 's Guild women would go around with me . |
| 22 | And does n't this give us — faintly indeed , but unmistakably — just what we 've looked for in vain in all the other Sicilian allusions : that 's to say , evidence that when Pound was in Sicily he did n't go around with his eyes closed , his ears and nostrils stopped ? |
| 23 | if he wears a long sleeve shirt , as soon as he takes his jacket off , he wo n't go around with his shirt |
| 24 | 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 . " |
| 25 | Would you go around with your |
| 26 | ‘ Do not fence around with me , ’ he snapped . |
| 27 | It was obvious he was good , it was obvious he should be in FI , but somehow he dallied and twiddled and procrastinated and did n't get around to it seriously until he was thirty-six years old and then it took him only three years to become champion . |
| 28 | ‘ Have n't read it myself yet , but I 'll get around to it — I sure will . ’ |
| 29 | I will get around to it eventually , ’ he says . |
| 30 | I suppose I could get around to it myself in time . |