Example sentences of "around in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's all these odd ideas that go around in the barbaric south that 's the trouble ! |
| 2 | Robert O'Mahoney 's King , a ‘ dynamotologist ’ — ‘ self-realisation , you know ? ’ — is the picture of a man floundering around in the deep end of life , who has forgotten not only how to swim , but even where he left his life jacket . |
| 3 | Had the paparazzi been around in the early days of his marriage it 's doubtful Philip would have escaped criticism . |
| 4 | Agnes went back into the cottage and , hearing Alisdair moving around in the other room , poured the water into a basin so that he might wash . |
| 5 | Virtually anything waved around in the receptive fields of these cells will evoke a response under the right conditions . |
| 6 | We 'd just sit around in the front parlour of my house and smoke Typhoo Tea in my dad 's pipe . |
| 7 | ‘ Parading around in the Nude , ’ said William . |
| 8 | That night Eve discarded her fig-leaf — danced around in the nude , naturally |
| 9 | Conscious that she had been crawling around in the hot sunshine for some time without a hat , she retired a short distance to the shade of some trees , sat down on a convenient boulder and tried to conjecture how Alain Gebrec might have spent his last moments . |
| 10 | These entail grubbing around in the murky bottom silt of a muddy pond for invertebrates . |
| 11 | Culley moved around in the small space close to the window . |
| 12 | She 's been nosing around in the regulating office , bet you anything you like she has , and she does n't fool me ! ’ |
| 13 | If you do venture by car on to the edge of Otmoor , there is the feeling that you will be unable to turn around in the narrow space between the dykes , or may get stuck up to the axles in mud . |
| 14 | They had rolled around in the narrow berth on the unanchored sheet , slipping on the shiny much-worn cheap leatherette surface of the bunk , lurching in and out of one another in a determined kind of way , the only passengers on the boat not to be paralysed with seasickness . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the kite that Lord Hanson has flown is bobbing around in the political and financial winds . |
| 16 | New ideas can be bounced around in the comparative safety of the governors ' meeting and reactions gauged . |
| 17 | They act as though no sexy young woman has ever trod those cobbled streets before , although the nubile daughter of the drunken town bully ( Peter Vaughan ) walks around in the mini-est of mini-skirts especially catching the eye of the long-haired village idiot ( David Warner ) , who has already molested young girls . |
| 18 | Last year was the first real attempt to recognise the new energy around in the visual arts . |
| 19 | The surface oceans are actually super-saturated with calcium carbonate so there 's a lot in solution , there 's more in solution than in theory is possible , in super-saturated condition and in addition there 's a lot floating around in the solid form in biological material . |
| 20 | There were a few small birds around in the hazel branches but that was all . |
| 21 | No one who was around in the late 1960s can have avoided the flood of changes which swept through the dress , sexual codes , language , food styles , cinema , literature , music , and other generative aspects of the new counter-culture . |
| 22 | The few managers of nursing who were around in the late 1960s , early 1970s will not wish to relive those experiences and yet unless alternative solutions are found quickly , the problem which prevailed then will soon be upon us again . |
| 23 | ‘ — ten days on St Lucia , swimming around in the pellucid Caribbean waters — ’ |
| 24 | There was to be no paddling around in the shallow waters for this man , Ruth thought . |
| 25 | All they needed was the proof , and when a photographer hired by a down-market Sunday newspaper caught the Princess of Wales emerging from her friend Kate Menzies 's mews house during the early hours of the morning with David Waterhouse , and fooling around in the quiet road , they thought they had it . |
| 26 | He 'd been pottering around in the big old half-ruined sheds on the other side of the quarry , one day back in the summer . |
| 27 | I 'm the one running around in the fockin' rain ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Other members of the herd are swimming around in the blood-red sea as this killing continues . |
| 29 | They twirled you around in the Gay Gordons at Ilkley with clammy hands . |
| 30 | They stopped at the balustraded terrace overlooking the small lake , and leaned over ; below , enormous golden fish lay around in the green water . |