Example sentences of "around on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only person from the old skateboard club still around on the Farnborough scene ( Ian Cocking ) transfers control of the ramp to the council who decided to close the ramp immediately by placing skips on the ramp . |
| 2 | There a few items lying around on the battlements for the adventurers to find : old arrows and rusty arrowheads , a bucketful of congealed pitch , a bunch of rotten torches tied up with twine , a rotted length of rope and the like . |
| 3 | While all this went on , the parents sat around on the school 's battered garden furniture , the mothers watching each other warily , the fathers armoured in a remote mildness that Robert recognized from his own parent . |
| 4 | Hurtling around on the rollercoaster builds values to one million points , and helps to highlight letters in the ‘ Palace ’ ( light 'em all and you get the jackpot ) . |
| 5 | At first he treated Lennie as a joke , ordering him around ; as he says , ‘ … a bunch of guys was standing around on the Sacramento River . |
| 6 | I think they thought they would find the treasure lying around on the beach ! |
| 7 | And there are some people actually on the beach as well , which I think is important because we 've got a lot of empty area here , fairly featureless area , but it 's nice to have these two or three people er dotted around on the beach . |
| 8 | He moved his glass around on the bar , making an olympic symbol with overlapping condensation rings . |
| 9 | The beauty of it is that you can easily move them around on the wood . |
| 10 | A mother penguin can find her very own youngster in a colony of several thousand , even after many days at sea , having left the young one to mill around on the ice with thousand of others which to us appear to be identical . |
| 11 | Nomes scurried down the plank and milled around on the road below , uncertain whether to run or stay . |
| 12 | The knights of the sky zoom around on the back of the ostrich which flaps its wings whenever you tap your ‘ flap ’ key the more you tap the higher he goes . |
| 13 | It was agreed by Mrs Buckingham , who had always resisted the false belief about the pain in her daughter 's back , that Harriet should stop lying around on the hall seat and go to a school founded in the 1840S for the further education of gentlewomen . |
| 14 | Rory stood , open mouthed for a second , watching Prentice hop around on the tarmac , clutching at one ankle , his face contorted . |
| 15 | So there was always a bottle of Reisling and a guitar , his Japanese kimono and him staying in bed , looking out of the window at the wolves chasing the train as we went through Siberia in the snow , whereas Geoffrey McCormack ( or Warren Peace as he was known professionally ) and I would get off at nearly every stop if we were awake , and run around on the platform . |
| 16 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 17 | Rudimentary Mafiosi , such as Franco Ambrosio , who was shortly to be a founding member of Jackie Oliver 's and Alan Rees 's Arrows team , an egregious former self-styled gun-runner and mercenary later gaoled for escaping up Holland Park Avenue throwing bags of cocaine out the windows of his car , floated around on the edge of those early South American season-openers , the former offering fantastic deals ( on which he rarely delivered ) and the latter procuring the kind of girls that racing drivers can relax with . |
| 18 | Spend all your life hanging around on the edge of the scrum and it comes as a bit of a shock to get a pair of fingers up your nostrils . |
| 19 | The hot shine must have cut to black as he was soft-footing it up the stairs , because when he turned around on the half-landing and crouched behind the angle of the banister the only light in the hall was the inward spill from the porch , and that was getting less as the door slowly closed on its hydraulic arm . |
| 20 | ‘ And that 's when they start to panic , ’ Billy interrupted , ‘ then they start flapping around on the surface and we start sticking 'em ; dead easy . ’ |
| 21 | I have known a fox earth populated with a family of cubs while small rabbits were running around on the surface nearby . |
| 22 | He made such a fine job of the earth , the sea and the hills ; He made an equally fine job of the creatures , large and small that run around on the land ; He even gave us the best crags in the world … |
| 23 | Arriving in Cyprus ahead of Othello , an understandably nervous Desdemona is forced to hang around on the quay and , in an effortful charade of lightheartedness , swap bawdy banter with Iago and company . |
| 24 | a mate of mine actually worked out in Russia and he said you know , piece of discussions about when , where the Russian 's sort of appear first and this sort of he said he said erm , this , he said that , that kids running around on the streets of Moscow is actually given a working permit and so he could actual work there and sort of like er |
| 25 | If you see the caterpillars crawling around on the bottom of the cage , you will know it is time to put some soil there . |
| 26 | Realizing I could n't hang around on the dole forever waiting for the Tate Gallery to offer me an exhibition , and also that my boyfriend , also on the dole , was not likely to be able to support me , I decided to go for further training . |
| 27 | They 'd haunt the alleys behind bakeries , they 'd help themselves from uncollected deliveries , they 'd stick around on the embankment for midnight handouts from the Salvation Army and the Krishna Temple . |
| 28 | Even though we may say , ‘ Make yourself at home ’ , we might be a little taken aback if they took us at our word and kicked off their shoes , lounged around on the settee , helped themselves to our coffee , tea , larder and even our wine ! |
| 29 | Chris if you 're gon na roll around on the lawn |
| 30 | In reality it 's just verglas with fist sized lumps of ice dotted around on the wall . |