Example sentences of "[noun] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took over from the Cortina as the best DIY car around , and its high build quality ensures public loyalty . |
| 2 | When the car bumped out on to the tarmac he swung the wheel hard across and turned the car around to face towards his chosen village . |
| 3 | She started the engine and swung the car around , catching a last glimpse of the place in her rear-view mirror . |
| 4 | In complete panic , I turned the car around and drove back to where the house had been . |
| 5 | We turn the car around slowly on the car park 's broken sea shell covering . |
| 6 | I shall have your driver bring your car around and — ’ |
| 7 | We 'll have to do a little pas de deux here and turn the car around . |
| 8 | She reached for her notebook and cigarettes and played the words around , wielded their texture and richness to sculpt a poem to her joy . |
| 9 | In the Middle Ages , people often depicted their monks as ruminative animals , chewing over the Word of God repeatedly , as it were , rolling the words around in their mouths and absorbing it into themselves just as they received Jesus the Word in the Eucharist , in a symbolic and sacramental manner . |
| 10 | Through the 1840s and 1850s Darwin engaged in a debate with Hooker on this question , eventually winning Hooker around to his own way of thinking . |
| 11 | It reached a pitch this week at a late night fringe meeting , appropriately held in the rooftop suite of a Brighton hotel , when four of the most saleable authors around turned out to promote their ideas and printed wares . |
| 12 | Like this car dealership in Dorset , dedicated to selling some of the most desirable cars around . |
| 13 | It 's clearly one of the very best diesel cars around . |
| 14 | And th obviously there are n't that many American cars around . |
| 15 | Yeah , ni nine times out of ten , particularly when there 's cars around |
| 16 | FOLLOW-UP to their club congenial ‘ Pot Of Gold ’ ( there 's a remix around well worth picking up ) , ‘ Mixed Moods ’ contains four variations on a theme crafted around a gorgeous string-infected format , of which some will be more effective earlier in the evening whilst the remainder will nurse any wounds left open from the evening 's proceedings . |
| 17 | You can always grow it back and there are some great wigs around at the moment . |
| 18 | ( To the remark ‘ The ball seems to be following Hick around ’ , Mike Brearley retorted : ‘ It does when he bats , too ! ’ ) |
| 19 | ‘ Evidently you 're a stranger around here or you 'd already be aware of that fact . ’ |
| 20 | The horrifying story did not end there , said Mr Goldring : ‘ The collapses followed the defendant around . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The collapses followed the defendant around . |
| 22 | It 's it is a nationwide survey on spoken English erm there 's a somebody approached me today and said would I carry a tape around for a week and record people talking . |
| 23 | All right then well thank you Simon that 's a broad thank you and and thank you very much for your money as well a hundred and fifty quid he gave that 's loads of dosh er to come in for the day as well and I 'm going to take you out for a a nice lunch in a bit when he can wonder around have a poke around everywhere this afternoon too so should be all right should n't it that ? |
| 24 | I 'm lucky , she told her reflection , and in a few days ' time I 'll be far away from this place , and without Piers around I 'll be able to put things back into perspective . |
| 25 | The St Louis Globe-Democrat wrote , ‘ Now we have a young swoon actor , the idol of teenagers , caught in a marijuana party — a reefer smoking fest known to the trade as ‘ kicking the gong around ’ . ’ |
| 26 | There are a number of good hard disk manufacturers around . |
| 27 | The offices around were empty and dead , street lights in the backwater thought unnecessary in the emergency . |
| 28 | ‘ Slices of pizza in boxes , hot and ready to eat , would go down really well here with all the people that come in at lunch times from the colleges and offices around . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ No , Nina , ’ Rachel heard herself say , ‘ I would prefer it if you would show Dr Markham around , please . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The sad thing is a lot have been people of great importance locally but they go in these homes around they 're forgotten . ’ |