Example sentences of "around [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well one of the things that I think has been very striking about John Major , and unfortunately again I 'm comparing him with Mrs. Thatcher , but it 's very difficult not to , thank goodness she was n't around during the Gulf war — that 's my feeling — because I do n't think I could have borne the idea of erm any more rejoice and up an atom and things like that . |
| 2 | Sun is still tinkering around with the Cypress Semiconductor Corp Ross Systems HyperSparc chip , having apparently not found a home for it yet : in benchmarks , the part outpaced the SuperSparc but by how much remains a mystery ; of course third parties people could buy the chip from Cypress direct and do their own MBus upgrades for Suns . |
| 3 | This major rearrangement of the aircraft will enable the RAFM to reposition some of the existing aircraft , for example , the Fairey Battle will occupy the place vacated by the Hudson and there will be a general shuffle around with the Proctor and C.30A autogiro . |
| 4 | Is n't there enough work around in the UK ? |
| 5 | Others were already wriggling around in the Alice 's undercarriage , zeroing in on the inlets . |
| 6 | The police say there 've been seven suspicious barn fires around in the Oxfordshire in less than a week . |
| 7 | Speed and mcalllister would hang around outside the Cov penalty area and snatch onto anything the Cov tried to clear . |
| 8 | He 's been a little funkateer since ‘ 85 , but he used to come around to the Bootsy Collins Rubber Band shows back in ‘ 75 and ‘ 76 . |
| 9 | There are very limited changes this time around to the Frontera range . |
| 10 | The only person from the old skateboard club still around on the Farnborough scene ( Ian Cocking ) transfers control of the ramp to the council who decided to close the ramp immediately by placing skips on the ramp . |
| 11 | At first he treated Lennie as a joke , ordering him around ; as he says , ‘ … a bunch of guys was standing around on the Sacramento River . |
| 12 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 13 | Talking exclusively to the NME about the background to the song , songwriter Tim London said : ‘ Claire 's Kitchen ’ is based on an interesting rumour , but is really there to point out the hypocrisy of a political party that has championed so-called family values , whilst indulging in the biggest spate of shagging around since The Beatles . |
| 14 | This was real racing history being made — and , what 's more , being made by an Irish mare ridden by the most popular Irish-born jockey around at the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival , Ireland 's annual pilgrimage to English racing . |