Example sentences of "around with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody else can fiddle around with the figures when they tender for it , but you 're trying to get a true cost of doing the work . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've seen him around with the Padre too . |
| 3 | Our second assignment was to paddle the boats around with the daggerboard — basically just a large , flat piece of wood . |
| 4 | And when he said , ‘ Ye start playin' around with the bugger on board Isvik … ’ |
| 5 | HAVE A CHANCE TO ‘ BEADLE ’ AROUND WITH THE STATE OF THE ART JVC ELECTRONIC CAMCORDER |
| 6 | For young women more than any other group there is so much scope for expression through the way they dress and look , so many more opportunities to have fun , play around with the rules , and make some of their own . |
| 7 | She could n't be expected to hang around with the press and everyone else knowing that she was responsible for last night 's false alarm . |
| 8 | The hands on the big wall clock jerked around with the enthusiasm of a convict doing forced labour , the offenders stared at their battered and scuffed shoes in awed silence with the exception of a drunk who had missed the dreaded word MINISTRY and who openly admired Frau Nordern 's figure but who , with the solidarity of the criminal underworld , was instantly hushed into silence by the other offenders . |
| 9 | Just play around with the map for a while , together with a sharp pencil and a long transparent ruler . |
| 10 | If we are to maintain confidence in the system , there is no point in our mucking around with the map several times in each Parliament . |
| 11 | Admittedly it helped win my freedom , when I escaped and people went around with the slogan , Run , Bambi , Run . |
| 12 | Preoccupied with the thoughts of his suffering , the trivial concerns of her lover become increasingly aggravating as they hang around with the crowds at Brighton . |
| 13 | The charge is that he allowed domestic inflation to get out of control and messed around with the exchange rate when he should have been applying the monetarist remedy . |
| 14 | Ross fished around with the scope , looking frantically for his target , but nothing would stay still . |
| 15 | I 've spent nearly a week playing around with the Korg A2 and I feel I have n't done more than scratch the surface . |
| 16 | He explained : ‘ We 're not really sure what happened the car cut out four or five times around the circuit in one lap and the only way to keep it going was to mess around with the ignition . |
| 17 | But the House of Love do offer something of their own — a willingness to play around with the pace of the music , cutting off the power to switch suddenly into a softer , more lyrical approach . |
| 18 | Modules , in this sense , do not have access to the contents of other modules and , in Carl Hewitt of MIT 's immortal words , ‘ modules should n't be able to dicker around with the insides of their neighbours ’ . |
| 19 | You can imagine : old Crumwallis going around with the expression of a Soviet agronomist at harvest time . |
| 20 | They were spotted by a five-year-old playing around with the freeze-frame on his parent 's video . |
| 21 | Because they 've pissed around with the decision for so long . ’ |
| 22 | Indeed , the more they play the more I may say drugged you become with the sound and the beating of it until you have to prevent yourself swaying around with the natives . |
| 23 | When you 've finished faffing around with the fonts , you can choose to either axe your disastrous experiment , or install it as a TrueType font itself . |
| 24 | The easiest way to solve the problem is to feed a high-fat , complete food which has been scientifically balanced for the working/hyperactive dog , rather than to play around with the ingredients yourself . |
| 25 | Hanging around with the photographer sparked Tony 's interest in the medium , ‘ It was a combination of things ; one was the bull , the adventure , the romance , and I really found that I liked it a lot . |
| 26 | Tampopo might have sold a few more bowls of noodles and Babette 's Feast caused little hiccups of interest in historic cooking , but The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover plays around with the relationship between food , sex and death in a way that is bound to cause offence . |
| 27 | and I went around with the current . |
| 28 | One could play around with the word ad nauseam ; then , the next thing that we would be arguing about is the place of the potato in English folklore . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The usefulness of having transaction processing applications down on the workstation , the company says , is to bring for example sales order processing information closer to the salesperson , who can play around with the data in a windows-based environment , oblivious to the complex processing going on behind the scenes . |