Example sentences of "around [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there 's muck , there 's brass , as the saying goes — and there was plenty of brass around during the early years of the Industrial Revolution in England for those with the skills and the enterprise to go looking for it . |
| 2 | that helicopter 's were fucking around during the second World War but they , they were |
| 3 | The women on the part-time farms were often the only people around during the short winter days so all outside stock had to be attended to by them . |
| 4 | It 's stayed around about the eight just over eight percent , there has n't , there has n't been much movement . |
| 5 | on the basis of a hundred per hundred thousand square feet to which you 'd have to add obviously a sort of surrounding area from the square footage used for a distribution warehouse , it looks as though it 's around about the thirteen |
| 6 | I think it 's the around about the first or the second of April . |
| 7 | I like mountains around about the 6000 , lower 7000m range . |
| 8 | And , it promises to tell ‘ a much wider tale than just XPG4 ’ at around about the same time . |
| 9 | This can be attributed to a number of factors : the increased availability of street heroin in Wirral during the early 1980s ; the periodic droughts of pot and speed at around about the same time ( some of the users suggested a direct relation between these phenomena ) ; the existence of large numbers of users initiated in the 1978–81 period who acted both as models to emulate and who were also probably the first dealers the new initiates came into contact with . |
| 10 | So when all these changes were going , going on with the , the machinery , the , the bonus system etcetera etcetera you , you think there were other facilities arose around about the same time which made the work environment still more er still better if you like ? |
| 11 | Erm , first of all , what if the abuser and the abused are around about the same age ? |
| 12 | No , it 's around about the off in n it ? |
| 13 | Oh yes , you only had to listen to this afternoon like , with the crowds and that , obviously it means a lot to them and there 's a lot of you know , stick I suppose goes around between the two clubs , so I just want to go out there , hopefully have a good game and keep a clean sheet . |
| 14 | But bringing this back into my work , I see myself as good old anarchist Spence , blundering around between the different discourses between cultural politics and alternative health and mainline health and actually being silenced at every count . |
| 15 | Great shards of glass were still lying around as a net curtain flapped inside the shattered frame of the blue front door of number 52 . |
| 16 | Similarly , as more attention is paid to CAE , engineering and testing costs become more significant and need to be incorporated into product costs rather than left floating around as a general charge ‘ below the line ’ . |
| 17 | The week before , the name of Llanelli outside-half Colin Stephens , was being bandied around as the latest answer to all of Wales ' woes . |
| 18 | As the then district administrator put it , the district had scratched around for every spare penny over the years and sunk it into the hospital , and yet more and more resources were being demanded . |
| 19 | She looked around for a blunt instrument . |
| 20 | The more the Major Government is seen to be drifting and accident prone , the more people scan around for a strong helmsman . |
| 21 | Not surprisingly , everyone looked around for a similar opportunity . |
| 22 | Shop around for a reasonable estimate , or hire a van and the services of some friends and do it yourself , it is much cheaper , and worth while if you are only moving a short distance . |
| 23 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 24 | Charles looked around for a suitable candidate and nudged , no doubt , by a couple of doting grandmothers , found Lady Diana Spencer . |
| 25 | Casting around for a suitable envoy to go out to Australia on behalf of a contrite British government , the choice fell on Major Julian Layton , an active promoter of the refugee cause whose experience encompassed several weeks on the Isle of Man liaising with the civil administration . |
| 26 | Jill returned in the spring of 1974 and was told to look around for a suitable site . |
| 27 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 28 | Looking around for a possible light , we noticed an elderly couple smoking at a nearby tables . |
| 29 | He grew it , merged it with an American company , then a few years later , having developed a multimillion pound empire , cast around for a new challenge . |
| 30 | Skinner , who ticked me off yesterday for suggesting his vote had fallen , is off after 14 years , leaving my colleagues on the Sun distraught and casting around for a new NEC contact . |