Example sentences of "and [verb] around [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general purpose of exploratory statistics , as the name suggests , is to help investigators to take a good look at patterns in data and to search around for ideas about the form these patterns take . |
| 2 | I knelt and gazed around in astonishment . |
| 3 | You 'll take a song and trace its riffs back and sit around with your grandchildren playing the originals . |
| 4 | You 'll take a song and trace its riffs back and sit around with your grandchildren playing the originals . |
| 5 | I 've given out three hundred invites and sit around with |
| 6 | Holly stood beside a poorly dug hole and he looked down at a T-shaped junction of pipes and saw that the screw-fastened aperture that gave access to the pipe join and its subsidiary were swathed in doth and knotted around in plastic sheeting . |
| 7 | As for the Lost Boys , they were cast from a politically correct mix of ethnic groups and blimp shapes , and zipped around in funky MTV gear and Mohican hair-dos , spouting street jargon . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Lio ! rt 's dragon was already airborne and circling around towards them . |
| 10 | Apart from looking into market deals and reports of cheques being repeatedly endorsed and passed around as if they were like cash , Inland Revenue investigators have been checking if farmers have undedeclared Government grant payments . |
| 11 | The leaves flew and scattered around in fragments , brushing their bodies and sticking to their wet cheeks . |
| 12 | This means that the player and the monitor can be kept together and moved around as one unit . |
| 13 | If you live in a low-lying area where there are ponds and canals , there may be plenty of mosquitoes and gnats around in summer . |
| 14 | There were thin elegant ones for the most delicate of lines ranging out to thick ones you could grip hard and slosh around in bold , creamy-coloured strokes . |
| 15 | He breathed the air deeply , hauling it into his broad chest as if this particular air on this exact spot could be stored up and carried around as a reserve and reminder : for minutes on end he stood there , resisting any move which would lift the spell , gazing into the hidden valley as if in there lay the treasure he wanted . |
| 16 | She sticks the cigarette in her mouth and looks around for matches . |
| 17 | He opened the little back gate and peered around in the dark for the shelter . |
| 18 | Other covers were planted with trees , and fenced around by large fox-hunting landlords like Aylesford or Sir Francis Burdett , the radical politician , who hunted in Leicestershire in the 1820s . |
| 19 | Very little guidance is given to students , who enrol ( with some exceptions ) in the subject of their choice and shift around at will , taking around six years to complete their first degree . |
| 20 | I gave Leslie Brown her list back and wandered around under her eagle eye looking at the horses . |
| 21 | Our landing party found much evidence of recent occupation such as up-to-date papers and fresh food stocks , but no bodies , and wandered around in a kind of Marie Celeste situation for a while before finding a locked door . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Every political leader is locked inside an impenetrable bubble and wafted around by a gigantic retinue of security advisers to keep us out . |
| 24 | The Gulf War , like a knife , cut the string , and the beads are dropping and bouncing around on the ground . |
| 25 | Her chihuahua was making its ‘ business ’ in the gutter , and that was a relief because it meant she would n't have to take him out again in the evening , and wait around for him . |
| 26 | An erratic Lebanese with a wife and family in Beirut and a Dutch mistress in Nicosia , he wore jeans and cowboy boots and drove around at high speed in a Chevy 4 × 4 with expired Texas licence plates . |
| 27 | Fonda finished reading and drove around to Nicholson 's house . |
| 28 | The charge is that he allowed domestic inflation to get out of control and messed around with the exchange rate when he should have been applying the monetarist remedy . |
| 29 | I wish there was a abetter metaphor , but like Pink Floyd we could have made music about what was really going on in my head and messed around with what being a pop star was all about . ’ |
| 30 | I was on bass , David was on acoustic guitar and we got this guy called Tex , he was a black conga player and came around with us doing a few gigs , although nothing really happened . |