Example sentences of "around [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Watch him , watch him , ’ the Youngest Son would say , pulling me around to see a TV video of a lute player , or a religious song celebration with long lines of men chanting Islamic verses in a sort of mouth music with hand-clapping accompaniment . |
| 2 | Now we 're going around to see the boy 's we 've got the love of my life . |
| 3 | This inevitably means that there is a sufficient breeding stock around to continue the cycle — and there will be a good supply of rabbits available for next year . |
| 4 | I always take a bottle of claret and a meat pie to help me through the service and , when it 's finished , I gaze around to catch the eye of some pretty maid . |
| 5 | Members of the public are now used to shopping around to find a firm which provides a service in a form and of a quality which the client wants at a price which the client is prepared to pay . |
| 6 | The rules are simple in that all you have to do is to move the blocks around to free the prisoner . |
| 7 | But she was n't waiting around to hear the rest of it . |
| 8 | There seems to be a need to maintain the belief that ‘ straights ’ , grown-ups would be shocked , damaged , altered , if they were around to hear the music . |
| 9 | She had now grown quite used to Betty who had , on the whole , been very patient with her ; and , once accepted , it was restful having someone around to do the cooking and the washing-up . |
| 10 | As he cruised around to land the oil temperature resumed a normal reading . |
| 11 | ‘ Melody in Fern Cottage with Seb , without me around to keep an eye on the pair of ‘ em ? |
| 12 | For example , in the case of the Pul Eliya wedding , I was not around to witness the business of pouring water over the veiled faces of the bride and bridegroom which I was told would take place and which is included in D'Oyly 's 1828 account . |
| 13 | She spun around to watch the coin splash , but it was too late . |
| 14 | I waited around to watch the burial . |
| 15 | Planning a garden for all seasons is one way of balancing strong colours , as there are always green plants around to relax the eye . |
| 16 | Following such a complaint , the witness may have looked around to investigate the cause of the accident and they should be asked about this . |
| 17 | Should they then turn around to bite the hand that takes down their volunteered confessions , they will fail . |
| 18 | I tried to help her see that if she let herself go enough to enjoy playing building bricks too , Nicola would n't feel the need to throw them around to get the attention she wanted . |
| 19 | It clicked irritatingly and Hugo pushed it aside , swivelling his chair around to face the window and the panoramic view of Manhattan . |
| 20 | You heard that ching sound again as Frank Braden shifted around to face the ex-soldier . |
| 21 | As it grew louder , she twisted around to face the sound . |
| 22 | This checked her mate 's retreat and the bird turned around to face the Muslim 's partridge with his back against her cage . |
| 23 | As the Sun 's rotation brings a large spot , or group of spots , around to face the Earth , the sun 's luminosity falls by 0.1 or 0.2 per cent . |
| 24 | Then apply the brush again on the brow bone over the eyebrow to hairline and bring around to join the blusher on cheeks . |
| 25 | I did n't hang around to take the blame , just worked that day out and sloped off home . |
| 26 | She reached out and took the bottle from his hand and turned it around to examine the label , while he simply looked at her in amazement . |
| 27 | I knew that a dead man could not harm me , but did n't hang around to test the theory . |
| 28 | We had to get up and gingerly stamp around to recirculate the blood . |
| 29 | When he reached the open doorway he booted the parcel into the room and whirled around to slam the door behind him . |
| 30 | Now , as the son came to see the marble bust for the last time , court photographers crowded around to capture the poignancy of the son saying goodbye , presumably with a sense of terrible failure , to the father for whom he had never been good enough . |