Example sentences of "around for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK . |
| 2 | Reading around for background to Shakespeare is valuable , and you ca n't do better than begin with the Harley Granville Barker 's Prefaces to Shakespeare , which analyse the plays from both a scholarly and dramatic angle , without being ponderously academic . |
| 3 | Shopping around for a top-up will allow the best price while still keeping the cutlery service in the same style . |
| 4 | I wandered around for a bit and then came back again . |
| 5 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 6 | I dawdled around for a while and then headed south . |
| 7 | ‘ They sprinkle commas around for absolutely no reason . ’ |
| 8 | Then I wandered around for a while , casting wistful glances at my tables . |
| 9 | ‘ Leaseholders wo n't hang around for 16 years in a pub , because leases can be sold on . |
| 10 | It should come as no surprise then , that some of those who see bolting as fundamentally reducing the experience I 've outlined above , and which is our common heritage , should cast around for some solid arguments to counter its spread . |
| 11 | Lowe ball-nuts have been around for a while and they are one of the best devices of this sort that I have used so far . |
| 12 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 13 | Yesterday , in Tokyo , she indicated that she may be around for a little while longer than expected . |
| 14 | Newport have fallen on even harder times than last year , when the Barbarians beat them 60-18 , and the Baa-Baas too scratched around for fluency . |
| 15 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
| 16 | You thrash around for a few minutes , trying not to breathe , but you have to inhale sometimes . ’ |
| 17 | With that , Taff started digging while I searched around for timber to place over the trench . |
| 18 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 19 | I chose a situation close to a hedgerow and was soon scouting around for logs or pieces of wood to cover the trench and to give some sort of protection against shrapnel . |
| 20 | Archbishop Fisher and Archbishop Garbett of York started to look around for scholarly clergymen and hovered over various names , ail of whom taught then or had taught in universities . |
| 21 | The trouble with this attitude is that there are just too many bands around for that to happen . |
| 22 | In that case , we want to be around for the big money in the fourth , fifth and sixth records . |
| 23 | The early modern transvestite and the post/modern gay ( anti ) sensibility suggest some of the ways in which transgressive reinscriptions have been around for much longer than post-modernism has been fashionable . |
| 24 | In 1989 the government 's proposals for the reorganization of the NHS included the creation of an NHS ‘ internal market ’ in which GPs could shop around for health care , the establishment of a new management board , with most members drawn from industry , permission for hospitals to become self-governing and new contracts for GPs . |
| 25 | When Rose saw the table already set for morning , she said , ‘ If you were around for too long I 'd be spoiled rotten . |
| 26 | This time he stood in the centre of the room , plainly unsure as to what had brought him in , his eye searching around for something to fasten on , like someone in mid-speech forgetting what they had to say . |
| 27 | The two six man teams board a coach in the early hours of Sunday and can be driven around for hours before arriving at the venue of the referee 's choice . |
| 28 | A full service history is essential and mechanical repair can be expensive , so shop around for the top examples . |
| 29 | Brittle bone disease , or osteogenesis imperfecta , has been around for at least 4,000 years . |
| 30 | Film-making involves acting for 10 minutes and then waiting around for two hours . |