Example sentences of "around [coord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made this ascent on a lowering afternoon that turned thundery , and I stood only momentarily I will admit on the bridge , as the storms brewed noisily up in the mountains all around and the lightning began . |
| 2 | Each was turned around and the wrists cuffed behind their backs . |
| 3 | With that we 'll see if we 've got any more it 's er , have to go down here which has got a bit of light , still some birds moving around and the birds calling , go and check the nests now . |
| 4 | The Buttholes were hailed , by the farsighted , as the most masturbatory musicians around and the opening track ‘ Jimmy ’ was a delirious frottage of surfaces and inflammation of tissue , a paradigm of ruination . |
| 5 | You are here to write about the Hacienda de Nieve , the countryside around and the horses . |
| 6 | Prince Andrew was home from naval duties to share this joyful family moment — but too often he was n't around and the couple 's happiness turned sour in five brief years.Picture : KENT GAVIN |
| 7 | The first bonfire was lit , glasses of punch were passed around and the winter chill started to mellow . |
| 8 | It drives around and the air that comes out of its exhaust is actually cleaner than when it comes in . |
| 9 | Dan was around and the other , the , the younger one . |
| 10 | The great Felipe had not even been around and the servants had ignored the fact that the inglésa was calmly walking towards the great gates . |
| 11 | She jerked around and the wire stretched a little , but that was all . |
| 12 | You only have to sit in there and you hear the rumours and the gossip that 's going around and the thing is , in the staffroom it 's always the bad kids that are talked about , never the good ones , which I suppose makes sense in a way , but as a new teacher , you come in , you hear these rumours like , I used to hear rumours about Kevin ( an Afro-Caribbean pupil ) and I thought , ‘ Oh , God , I 'll have to watch out for Kevin , everybody thinks he 's a trouble-maker and that means he 's bound to be in my class ’ , but I mean it 's not as simple as that , it really is n't … |
| 13 | I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies . |
| 14 | They threw each other around and the audience yelled for more . |
| 15 | When inside the wing was attached , polythene sheeting was thrown up all around and the Lancaster emerged from its respray in its most famous guise of S-for-Sugar . |
| 16 | Er reading old books there the they talk about the and er around and the beds and all that you know and the jollity people they 're well known about it . |
| 17 | They 'd left the plates lying around and the wine bottles on the floor , and there was still a bit of wine left in one of them . |
| 18 | It 's lovely there ; find a good vantage point and make rough pencil sketches of the church and trees around and the shapes of tombstones , etc. , or go into the cemetery and draw that curious old tower which commands such an extensive view . |
| 19 | To the west , the commoners ' fields met the highway where the buses turned around and the shops went on parade . |
| 20 | Outside , the smoke enveloped everything all around but the square of magnesium light , which now turned green . |