Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] around [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This passage reveals concern for the points of the compass when clipping was in progress as the shepherd moved around under the tree to avoid the rays of the sun . |
| 2 | The more he considered all the aspects of the matter , the more Manville came around to the view that Turkey was the best possible choice of all . |
| 3 | Schellenberg glanced around at the desolate landscape . |
| 4 | Rex looked around at the jaded office . |
| 5 | Bernice looked around at the city . |
| 6 | Frankie groped around on the shelves until his fingers encountered a deep plate . |
| 7 | ’ For five minutes the two engineers moved around in the steam and smoke , and looked at the big engines . |
| 8 | Panic slammed around in the cavity of her body . |
| 9 | In reality it 's just verglas with fist sized lumps of ice dotted around on the wall . |
| 10 | Ross fished around with the scope , looking frantically for his target , but nothing would stay still . |
| 11 | Mildred felt around in the bumping , musty darkness and discovered a whistle , a notebook with a rubber band round it , and a voluminous handkerchief . |
| 12 | Simon looked around at the bigger house with an alert eye . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She remembered one of the ideas chucked around at the brainstorming session a week ago : a series on Eligible Males . |
| 15 | An interferometer swung around by the Earth 's rotation will ‘ synthesise ’ a dish as large as the separation of the two telescopes . |
| 16 | Maurice looked around at the shabby and slightly absurd incongruities of the room . |
| 17 | They stopped at the balustraded terrace overlooking the small lake , and leaned over ; below , enormous golden fish lay around in the green water . |
| 18 | At the bottom of Grafton Street , the driver swung around to the left into College Green . |
| 19 | After the service , when everyone had filed outside , Willie looked around for the strange curly-haired boy that he had seen at the Post Office . |
| 20 | Beyond the Sapphire Gate lies a huge lagoon ringed around with the shining towers of Lothern . |
| 21 | Now all the pretty things sat around in the present , and all they did was make her regret the past . |
| 22 | Tal hopped around on the floor among the cigarette stubs and krillstick wrappers . |
| 23 | Our digital video strategy meandered around in the desert for 40 years . |
| 24 | In the middle of the desert miles behind enemy lines , the columns of jeeps drove around in the darkness concentrating on holding formation . |
| 25 | Thank God her father had survived , but for how many more years could he go on , with only Rachel to inherit while Jamie hung around in the background , desperate to take the firm , simply to settle a childhood score ? |
| 26 | Mary hung around outside the stables , curious to hear her father in his element as the two men sorted out the rods . |
| 27 | The merchant stared around into the gathering darkness and his courage began to ebb as he wondered who his strange benefactor might be . |
| 28 | Admittedly it helped win my freedom , when I escaped and people went around with the slogan , Run , Bambi , Run . |
| 29 | Billy looked around at the considerable number of pictures on the walls portraying various old sailing ships . |
| 30 | William looked around at the stacks of cartons and bundles and felt that he had been wasting his time tidying the stock . |