Example sentences of "around [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Aldridge was around during Rush 's exile in Italy — but did n't stay too long when the great man came back . |
| 2 | He looked around for Reni 's wife — the mother of Neferukhebit wondering if she was the source of the girl 's character . |
| 3 | People come from miles around for Myra 's Yorkshire pudding — not to mention the gravy ! ’ |
| 4 | And look at all the business you must be losing in London while you 're out here running around after Malta 's nobility ! ’ |
| 5 | They drive around with chauffeurs erm most people from Peking drive bicycles and most people in the country walk . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , since then , you 've led such a different , almost wild life : parties , nightclubs , hanging around with Mark 's weird friends . |
| 7 | ‘ You ca n't pussyfoot around with children 's welfare . ’ |
| 8 | He does know that they 're powerful : ‘ I got used to playing around with Tony 's guitars , and although the fact that he sometimes detunes and uses very light strings does n't help the output , these pickups are very powerful — a fair bit more powerful than conventional humbuckers . ’ |
| 9 | People used to drive around in Austin A40s then . |
| 10 | If we 'd been around in Nelson 's day he 'd have given his right arm for a copy . |
| 11 | I only saw him a few times and he seemed to wander around in no-man 's land half the time doing bugger all . |
| 12 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 13 | Palace were back level when , in the 66th minute , Tony Adams and Seaman hesitated as the ball bobbed around in Arsenal 's penalty area . |
| 14 | But you did n't expect me to go rummaging around in Paula 's diary , did you ? ’ |
| 15 | There were still bears around in Gourstave 's time : brown bears in the Alps , reddish bears in Savoy . |
| 16 | ’ I do n't recall you being so keen to leave while your lover-boy was knocking me around in Fif 's last night ’ . |
| 17 | On all fours , she turns her electrocardiograph around in Max 's direction , and ours . |
| 18 | She was thinking this so hard that she was not surprised when he stood up and said , " I 'm going to drop around to Felicity 's and get myself a real bath . " |
| 19 | Fonda finished reading and drove around to Nicholson 's house . |
| 20 | What will happen when Jerry Rubin gets around to Physicists ' , Engineers ' , and Molecular Biologists ' Night ? |
| 21 | Patrick 's next impulse was to race around to Hyde 's digs , but something like caution held him back . |
| 22 | Yanto , full of excited anticipation , had raced around to Bert 's garage as soon as work finished on Friday . |
| 23 | It was on a Friday night and I had packed my suitcases and taken them around to Rachel 's house so her dad could stack them on top of the car . |
| 24 | ‘ Get out of that restaurant and get around to Woodbine 's office . |
| 25 | He whirled around at Leif 's horrified cry and the bump as the maid fell in a dead faint to the floor . |
| 26 | He remembered that Sunday morning in '39 , when Wilf Bullingham , the local amateur photographer , had come around at Bert 's request . |
| 27 | Well , er no but it 's that little lad that hangs around at Chrissie 's . |
| 28 | are not still being generously spread around by men 's cocks . |