Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a pocket he drew a small cylindrical probe , and he stalked slowly around the room with it , pointing it at every piece of furniture and ornamentation with a sensitive ear tuned to the probe 's faint hum . |
| 2 | It is important to note that the bald patch or the patch without the 1.6 mm depth of tread grooves is not required to go right around the tyre . |
| 3 | As one , they turned to continue on around the side of the house , Hector racing along before them . |
| 4 | The two men continued to stroll leisurely around the perimeter fence which separated the living quarters and parade grounds of the air-base from the restricted areas of the hangars and control tower . |
| 5 | He eventually fell , seven short of a century , ‘ gated ’ by the offspinner after being stuck fast for 25 minutes , but Dermot Reeve , in his first Test , and watched by his mother Monica , who had flown halfway around the world to see him play , and Lewis , who unfurled drives and cuts of genuine quality , ensured progress was maintained as the weather closed in . |
| 6 | More recent changes in female employment , and the increasing ‘ liberation ’ of women from a life centred entirely around the home and the family , will make such an assessment increasingly outdated . |
| 7 | Oesophageal manometry was performed using a catheter containing five solid state transducers located at 5 cm intervals along its length and oriented radially around the circumference of the catheter ( Gaeltec Ltd , UK ) . |
| 8 | Late last night , Tass reported that bursts of automatic fire were heard all around the city as ‘ several tens of thousands of people ’ gathered on Bucharest 's University Square . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not prepared to go all around the world with England any more as third or fourth choice . ’ |
| 10 | She could feel them now — dangers everywhere — gathering all around the churchyard wall , biding their time until a door should open , just a crack , and let them in . |
| 11 | He wandered crossly around the tree , kicking up dead needles . |
| 12 | One result has been that the price of dumping rubbish has varied widely around the country . |
| 13 | Boy was bruised badly around the mouth , and had red burn marks around both of his wrists . |
| 14 | Soon pieces of meat were being roasted right around the fire , and the air was thick with the smell of charred flesh and singeing fur . |
| 15 | Work was carried on around the lump in a fairly ordered pattern helping to keep everything in proportion . |
| 16 | The curly-haired Moi were wearing only breechclouts , and their naked haunches gleamed in the lamplight as they moved vigorously around the platform ; beside her pale-skinned sons , their glistening bodies looked almost black . |
| 17 | Sea fish would be caught all around the coast and estuaries , perhaps for most of the year , and traded some distance inland . |
| 18 | Volcanoes are not scattered randomly around the world . |
| 19 | Like the Egyptian church , the Celtic church was organised less around the diocese than around the abbey or monastery . |
| 20 | She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt . |
| 21 | The cigarettes scattered all around the floor . |
| 22 | Fragments of wicker were scattered all around the room ; a small pile of them marked the drain . |
| 23 | The crunch is that in September , Hong Kong 's rugby players , like most other expatriates in the Colony , will be enjoying their summer holidays — many of them scattered all around the world — and the rugby season would still have not begun . |
| 24 | I left the motorway system east of the centre of Birmingham and , with my map of the area open beside me , headed into the grey and depressing urban blight that lies to the south of the city or , rather , that lies all around the city . |
| 25 | Unsettled at having come halfway around the world to find herself in the same town at the same time as Vitor d'Arcos , she had skipped over any articles which mentioned him , but , on turning a page , had found an article which she could not ignore . |
| 26 | Can you tell me something about the crowd itself , erm did particular age groups tend to stand together around the ground or were the young |
| 27 | The ball can not then escape and bounce all around the room . |
| 28 | After examining the photographs , Mr Hayden recognised William Terris who had been murdered in about 1900 in The Strand which lies just around the corner from Covent-Garden Underground Station . |
| 29 | By this time it was severed just around the corner from Staveley Town South Junction . |
| 30 | Those little shops are loved by the British people because they are conveniently located just around the corner . |