Example sentences of "around [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have thought around about 15th place would see him happy enough . |
| 2 | Everyone has heard that there is a big buzz going around about one band or another , but what does that mean ? |
| 3 | Disk Compression/doubling — there have been rumours flying around about this facility for quite some time . |
| 4 | In the su around about this area , the the local housing estates , a great many of our investing members just live practically round the corner , so we get to know them very well . |
| 5 | AROUND about this time every year leaves fall off deciduous trees . |
| 6 | This means that the player and the monitor can be kept together and moved around as one unit . |
| 7 | Probably recommendable chiefly to Britflick completists and producers shopping around for cheap talent . |
| 8 | Eventually , satisfied that he had found what he wanted , the Doctor halted , waving the box around for final confirmation . |
| 9 | HOLY Week is a time when many people look around for devotional reading , and I suppose we should be grateful to the Observer for drawing attention to a ‘ dirty ’ book on sex for Catholics which has been written by the 30-year-old retiring editor of the Catholic Herald and a friend . |
| 10 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 11 | We can do exactly the same : look around for good ambush spots as you run , places which give you cover so that you can jump out and completely surprise your attacker as he rushes past . |
| 12 | The research concluded that , in some respects , patients could and did behave like consumers in a marketplace , shopping around for good quality care . |
| 13 | But he was advised to start looking around for other work . |
| 14 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 15 | ‘ Look around for one moment . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's what I hang around for all day , ’ said the poet , ‘ when your mother is doing something useful . ’ |
| 17 | Japan looked around for diplomatic support , but this was not forthcoming from either Britain or the United States . |
| 18 | Snuffling around for untapped niche markets , Unipalm Ltd , based in Cambridge , has come up with Mail-it , a Microsoft Windows-to-Unix connectivity E-mail package . |
| 19 | If their treasurers have n't yet written to you it may well be because they are busy shopping around for alternative banking services — as indeed I am . |
| 20 | Seems Novell Inc missed a first call of the open systems boat back in its dim and distant proprietary past , when Reading , Berkshire-based X/Open Co Ltd was casting around for inter face technology that could tie personal computer networks into open systems . |
| 21 | But , again judging from the US experience , this awareness will not make people much more conscious of the actual money cost of different forms of credit than they are already , nor encourage shopping around for cheaper credit . |
| 22 | It is an ASTONISHING piece of equipment — and I long to know how to use other design and text layout programmes which can be purchased and loaded into it , but want to cast around for sound advice as the programmes cost significant sums each . |
| 23 | The second innovation was to look around for offshore oil facilities , island bases or production platforms on which the air force could station helicopters , equipped with missiles , sometimes improvised Maverick anti-tank models . |
| 24 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
| 25 | McLaren then began shopping around for another label , pointedly ignoring Virgin . |
| 26 | As a result , when it comes to his turn to be on top of his wife again , he falls down backwards on to her ( 4281 ) , the wrong way around for sexual intercourse , as she sleeps with John after their night-time labours . |
| 27 | On short finals full flap is lowered , the speed is brought back to 75 kts and the propeller levers are moved into fully fine in case there is a need to go around for any reason . |
| 28 | If you look around for some field that has yet to be used in a crime story and then insist on using it when it has not filled you with enthusiasm , your book will be leaden . |
| 29 | So , being a nosey bugger , which I am , I went into David 's room and looked around for some evidence of what actually might have happened that weekend because I was completely stunned . |
| 30 | He looked around for some measure of comparison . |