Example sentences of "around [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most people say ‘ what happens when I 'm hit ’ , ’ he said , then looked around to acknowledge the titters of nervous laughter . |
| 2 | ‘ Watch him , watch him , ’ the Youngest Son would say , pulling me around to see a TV video of a lute player , or a religious song celebration with long lines of men chanting Islamic verses in a sort of mouth music with hand-clapping accompaniment . |
| 3 | I wheeled around to see a 3D abhorrent Zombie attempting to maul me . |
| 4 | I wheeled around to see a 3D abhorrent Zombie attempting to maul me . |
| 5 | Now we 're going around to see the boy 's we 've got the love of my life . |
| 6 | Do not bring the neighbours and family around to see the newborns , as this will only induce stress in the dam which will be passed to the pups . |
| 7 | JTR was not around to see the beginnings of political comment in Scottish art ; his life took a new path far removed from the galleries and drawing rooms of artistic Edinburgh . |
| 8 | This inevitably means that there is a sufficient breeding stock around to continue the cycle — and there will be a good supply of rabbits available for next year . |
| 9 | Felix remembered the gang of them at the beginning of the World War , with Stephen stomping around reviling the call-up , deciding on conscientious objection for himself , shaking off the hand of any acquaintance who tried to help him speed over a dangerous crossing , and talking about the anti-militarist statement he would make to the court . |
| 10 | Having finished a job , they do n't sit around enjoying the results — it 's on to the next . |
| 11 | What use is canonisation — if you 're lucky — after your death if you 're not around to sense the effects of your work on the populace ? |
| 12 | I could weep with frustration when I go around seeing the conditions some of our people work in , the pittance they have paid , young people hung around on street corners with no job and no real training . |
| 13 | For the past few years , when playing against sides with big lineout forwards , much of the Scottish game plan revolved around keeping the ball in play . |
| 14 | In the next act we see a mountain village , where a feckless Kuomintang soldier is slouching around keeping an eye on the villagers . |
| 15 | I always take a bottle of claret and a meat pie to help me through the service and , when it 's finished , I gaze around to catch the eye of some pretty maid . |
| 16 | ‘ We could have come round and had a chat instead of having every foot patrol and Panda car in the bloody Met wandering around checking the numbers on every pigging black cab in town . |
| 17 | Members of the public are now used to shopping around to find a firm which provides a service in a form and of a quality which the client wants at a price which the client is prepared to pay . |
| 18 | His job was to drive some 50–100 sheep around to crop the fairways and rough and then return them back to Hunts . |
| 19 | Its five books re-tell and overlap the ancient stories of how God created Man and after generations of wandering around living a life which makes Wild West movies look tame , there was captivity in Egypt and then liberation to the Promised Land . |
| 20 | We drift around looking the place over for accommodation , eventually selecting a wooden building called Sand Dune Apartments . |
| 21 | Hawkshead , Ulverston , Ambleside , Kirkby Stephen , Dent and Sedbergh all had galleries where prospective purchasers could walk around to view the goods on sale on market days . |
| 22 | The rules are simple in that all you have to do is to move the blocks around to free the prisoner . |
| 23 | But she was n't waiting around to hear the rest of it . |
| 24 | There seems to be a need to maintain the belief that ‘ straights ’ , grown-ups would be shocked , damaged , altered , if they were around to hear the music . |
| 25 | I think Imamu takes the most slack when it comes to proving himself because he is always around to hear the people who criticize him , where as although Boo is criticized , he is not there to hear it , seeing as he is locked up inside his house . |
| 26 | At the Irving Plaza , a gaggle of girls are wandering around conducting a poll . |
| 27 | People were running around wiping the rocks with towels . " |
| 28 | About thirty airmen sat around wearing a variety of expressions from sickly smiles to tough bravado . |
| 29 | All around prevails a world of impiety and immorality . |
| 30 | There were no goodbyes , no final glances around to fix the details of this tacky , tawdry workplace in her memory . |