Example sentences of "around in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , she grabbed hold of the dispenser 's cooling fin whilst it was waving a krill doughnut around in a vain attempt to attract custom , pulled it close and , in a casual and unremarkable manner , moved her hand down to the dispenser 's access plate and ran her fingers around the seam until she felt a magnetic bolt buzzing beneath her fingers . |
| 2 | This is analogous to wandering around in a misty marsh in a river valley surrounded by invisible summits . |
| 3 | ‘ Towing a whale around in a tiny cage when it is used to roaming the oceans defies belief and serves no purpose in welfare or education terms , ’ he said . |
| 4 | She seemed , to Tammuz , quite agitated , pacing up and down behind her desk , swishing around in a long , belted gown . |
| 5 | When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest . |
| 6 | ‘ Places where the team flies around in a private jet . |
| 7 | Around the catafalque are some of his most powerful magical items , which lie scattered around in a strange quasi-circular pattern as if they were being drawn to the catafalque in a spiralling motion and suddenly stopped . |
| 8 | Normally to be seen driving around in a funereal Daimler — dwarfing the island 's other cars ( including the BMW of Premier Sir John Swan ) — the Governor also dons his uniform and takes to the streets in a horse-drawn landau several times a year . |
| 9 | Next , you spin on your front foot , sweeping the rear leg around in a wide arc that intersects the back of the opponent 's supporting leg . |
| 10 | Forster 's voice was incredulous as he swung his torch around in a wide arc . |
| 11 | ‘ There used to be sea here , ’ he remarked , sweeping his conning tower of an arm around in a wide arc . |
| 12 | As they glided around in a wide circle towards the Wyrmberg it was definitely taking on a more solid form , as if the creature 's body was filling with a gold mist . |
| 13 | He streaked out of a thin patch and saw the aircraft bigger now and shinier , curling around in a wide arc to start landing . |
| 14 | Diana seemed distressed , rushing around in a distracted way — oblivious , it seemed to me , of the work we had all put in for her brother 's wedding . |
| 15 | The evolutionary advantage of this is that the animal need not lie around in a torpid state , vulnerable to attack . |
| 16 | Kids who never made it to the gig are cruising aggressively around in a heady charged way . |
| 17 | That does n't mean we have to go around in a great lather of gratitude all the time . |
| 18 | But the ruler who likes to be driven around in a sinister black Range Rover with dark tinted windows casts a long shadow of fear . |
| 19 | Thus it was that , as a grinning Lio ! rt swung back and brought his sword around in a lazy arc , time ran into treacle . |
| 20 | Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green . |
| 21 | ‘ Then let 'em come , ’ Lambert said , ‘ and we 'll keep the war warm for ‘ em , but for God 's sake do n't tell me I 'm helping to knacker the Kaiser by farting around in a clapped-out one-gun flying coffin , because I 've seen too much of it . ’ |
| 22 | Hurt was celebrating an award which had been won by his TV series The Storyteller and was staggering around in a drunken haze when he turned on the paparazzi and yelled , ‘ Those bastards have been winding me up all night . |
| 23 | It was definitely not a night to let a friend wander around in a drunken stupor searching for his car . |
| 24 | Three of the ‘ Dainty Dozen ’ ( as the 482nd christened them ) who had been MT drivers during the war drove the party around in a 12-seater minibus that flew Union Jacks to warn the unsuspecting American public that they were not used to driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 25 | After the final number , when all the dancers came offstage whooping and whistling with relief to crowd into the showers , Lucy followed Josie around in a final inventory of wigs and clothing and then generally cleared up ready for the next night 's work . |
| 26 | Coda has published its report and accounts each year since 1987 because , Turner says , its products are generally sold to the financial directors of large corporations and they always want the security of knowing how a firm is doing and if it will still be around in a few years . |
| 27 | Perhaps eight people of various ages will be invited to an agency and will sit around in a comfortable room simply responding to very informal promptings from the discussion leader . |
| 28 | If we believe , and many of us do , in unitary local government — one door to knock on and one set of people to hold to account — we must give them something to do other than riding around in a civic car pretending that they are important and delivering nothing , responsive to no demands , not aspiring to change and improvement , and not even doing what the Conservatives of old did in the Chamberlain era when there was the sort of socialism that is now anathema to the Tory party . |
| 29 | You 're much too young to be thinking about boys , when I was your age I went around in a big friendly group , plenty of time for all that later on . |
| 30 | The digger careered around in a big circle , so that when the two humans crawled out of the wreckage it was the first thing they saw . |