Example sentences of "around by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could have been switched around by anyone , hoping to lay the blame elsewhere . |
| 2 | The demand for shell suits in shiny crinkle and trilobal fabrics is waning and there will certainly be less of these versions around by next spring as far as the more fashion conscious wearer is concerned . |
| 3 | Coincidentally I 'd just told Malcolm that I was a bass player — although at this point I was only mucking around by myself at home — so Malcolm told them . |
| 4 | footballers were hedged around by restrictions on personal mobility and income whilst the residence qualifications for county cricketers prevented a cricketing equivalent of the football transfer system . |
| 5 | The image of a perfect Suffolk farmhouse must surely be a pink house , with a gable or two and a tall , intricate , brick chimney , the whole wrapped around by a moat and some venerable trees . |
| 6 | One man was brought before the ‘ Special Court ’ for saying Germans had no need to fear starvation in this war , because Hitler had the biggest farm in the world ‘ followed around by 90 million cattle and running an enormous pigsty ’ . |
| 7 | Along with many a public body that felt pushed around by the Tories , the BBC must have gone to bed on April 8 with dreams of a quieter life on the night ; already swinging , as it were , in the hammock slung for them by a hung parliament . |
| 8 | Successively a Rhodes scholar , Foreign Office mandarin , Oxford don , politician , TV current affairs reporter and politician again , he is unencumbered by the traditionalist baggage inevitably carried around by those who grew up where the writ of the Labour establishment still runs largely unchallenged . |
| 9 | So you were left quite unprepared for the lightning 10K race start , made worse this time around by a shouted count-down . |
| 10 | On no account should the patient be allowed or encouraged to get himself around by dragging his foot and leaning on the furniture . |
| 11 | She turns the Government 's self-help approach around by arguing that urban recovery will only be achieved by empowering the people who live in cities . |
| 12 | John likes to keep the horses separate so that they do n't kick each other , but Hopscotch often jumps into Milton 's paddock to keep him company ; and sometimes if the weather is bad , one of the children 's ponies is turned out with him , otherwise Milton , who is a bit of a softy , will hang around by the gate in the hope that someone will take pity on him and take him back to his warm stable . |
| 13 | Convicted murderers , especially brutal and disgusting ones , were followed around by as many paparazzi as the royal family . |
| 14 | Turning the board around by steering away from the wind and letting the sail pass over the front of the board . |
| 15 | In Tblisi , Stalin 's birthplace , my wife and I were shown around by enthusiastic Georgians from the Technological Institute . |
| 16 | Such people , in Clarke 's view , exhibit either a failure of nerve or of imagination , History is littered with examples of eminences who said such items as the aeroplane or the telephone were impossible , Yet Clarke himself demonstrates , unwittingly perhaps another well-known human maxim : if something can go wrong , it probably will , Thus in his 1962 edition , he predicts that nuclear rockets , translating machines and efficient energy storage devices would be around by 1970 . |
| 17 | An interferometer swung around by the Earth 's rotation will ‘ synthesise ’ a dish as large as the separation of the two telescopes . |
| 18 | A few birds with long beaks were poking around by the water : how come they stay so clean when they 're always delving in the mud ? |
| 19 | Do not allow yourself to be pushed around by an agency that tells you they have a large number of suitable vacancies and then persists in sending you for jobs which are not within your specifications . |
| 20 | If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught . |
| 21 | Also blood , and menstrual cramps and the thought of labour pains and being stitched up and being woken in the night by a shitty damp bundle and having my tits tugged and bitten , and being mauled around by macho chauvinist piglings who call themselves obstetricians . |
| 22 | As Patrick Forbes put it in Champagne , ‘ The news of his appointment was received with a certain relief by most people , for , if you were going to be shoved around , it was better to be shoved around by a wine-maker than by some beer-drinking Nazi lout . ’ |
| 23 | The system consists of two parts : a transmitter which is plugged into the main audio system and a receiver which is carried around by the person . |
| 24 | Leven Canal is well known for miles around by fishermen . |
| 25 | I 've always travelled around by road , and I 'll keep it that way . |
| 26 | The camera can be ranged around by radio control . |
| 27 | Hosanna could see it too , and would prick up his ears as he sat on her lap and focus on Gabriel moving around by the sink or fixing the green curtains at the window . |
| 28 | However , the promoter , who preferred to remain anonymous , issued a statement to NME claiming : ‘ There is no objection raised by local promoters — far from it — promoters have been severely f—ed around by an ‘ artiste ’ who has no consideration for his fans or the people who have put work into this tour . |
| 29 | LAMBETH Building Society is spreading a little seasonal cheer around by cutting mortgage rates for its 12,000 borrowers in January — three months ahead of schedule . |
| 30 | ‘ He was shoved around by a few other prisoners , ’ said a guard at the Bois d'Arcy prison , outside Paris . |