Example sentences of "up around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might have said to her that some time in the middle of the nineteenth century a cult had grown up around the idea of the home . |
| 2 | Annabel units from Bernstein 's Misty Bedroom Range set up around the bed form an attractive alcove with a dressing table unit and cupboards . |
| 3 | For instance , the smooth flowing curve of the soft rail encourages water to follow the line of the rail up around the board , therefore having the effect of sucking the board into the water . |
| 4 | The ‘ Early Bird ’ photographic sessions saw all three locomotives plus the BRM 's own No. 5080 ‘ Defiant ’ lined up around the turntable in the November sunshine . |
| 5 | A real science is now growing up around the concept of the human window , while there is no evidence or logical reason to accept Fredkin 's supposition at all . |
| 6 | instinctively out to Barber , three men up around the edge of the area . |
| 7 | Any book about Scottish football inevitably brings the reader into direct contact with the major Glasgow clubs , Rangers and Celtic , and such is the passion they arouse , that a degree of false diplomacy has grown up around the way the clubs and their players are treated . |
| 8 | If political imperatives dictate further and unpredictable shifts towards shorter maturities in future , the result will be to disrupt all the different credit markets ( in interest-rate derivatives , corporate debt and mortgage-backed securities , for example ) that have grown up around the Treasury 's vast borrowing schedule . |
| 9 | A computermail database network has even been set up around the country for fans to debate the killer of Laura Palmer , the lovely blonde homecoming queen whose body mysteriously washes onto a river bank near a lumbermill in the fictional Pacific northwest town of Twin Peaks . |
| 10 | If the past two years of desktop publishing has had an impact on the traditional typesetting market it must surely be reflected in the number of PostScript bureau that have sprung up around the country . |
| 11 | Schemes similar to Horse Watch are springing up around the country , initiated originally by the British Horse Society . |
| 12 | Today the Abbey 's massive gatehouse overlooks the ancient battlefield and , on the opposite side , the lovely little market town called Battle , which grew up around the Abbey walls . |
| 13 | Press these around the sides of the cake and up around the base of the towers . |
| 14 | The Trade Marks Act 1938 , following previous legislation , serves two main purposes : first , to protect the goodwill and reputation which a trader has built up around the mark involved and , secondly , to prevent the public from being deceived into buying inferior goods in the belief that they are made by another manufacturer . |
| 15 | As before , he disguised himself in beggar 's clothes , and hobbled into the village which had sprung up around the river of wine . |
| 16 | The transformation of the ceiling was brought about with two simple pulleys , almost on a clothes-line principle , that took a tent of diamonds and icicles up around the chandelier . |
| 17 | She has appealed to local people to give as many details as possible about the legends , history and myths which have grown up around the village over the years . |
| 18 | I kept walking , past the old mill , right up around the bend to where the council property starts , and I thought , oh , shit , council houses . |
| 19 | If this sort of thing could take place at the most sacred shrine in Delhi , then the festivals at the lesser dargahs-such as that which grew up around the grave of the saintly Emperor Bahadur Shah I — could be even more lively . |
| 20 | A consensus has welled up around the church and left as its high-water mark a distinctive view of doubt which is prejudicial to faith and quite illegitimate . |
| 21 | Looking outside again Joseph saw then that the smoke and explosions were emanating from tall bamboo poles set up around the courtyard . |
| 22 | The number of alumni living abroad is also staggering and it looks likely that more Napier groups could be set up around the globe . |
| 23 | The curvature of space-time caused by the matter in the universe can then lead to the three space directions and the imaginary time direction meeting up around the back . |
| 24 | Summer Hill , up around the back end of |
| 25 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 26 | One participant , Rinchen Dolma Taring , wrote in her book , Daughter of Tibet : ‘ The Lhasa women had made many anti-Chinese posters and when I joined them they were lined up around the Barkhor shouting slogans , ‘ From today Tibet is independent ’ and ‘ China must quit Tibet ’ . |
| 27 | On his arrival , he had been satisfied to see the defences that had been set up around the hospital , and had every intention of congratulating those responsible . |
| 28 | The wife come in she stays up around the corner and keeps an eye on the on a Saturday . |
| 29 | There is always something soming up around the corner . |
| 30 | Great brier hedges grew up around the Palace , and for many months Ireland had no ruler . ’ |