Example sentences of "[noun] around [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can always grow it back and there are some great wigs around at the moment . |
| 2 | She swished the dregs around at the bottom of her can . |
| 3 | So the thing , the thing to do is to sort of dot around in the conversation things like pre antidisestablishmentarianism . |
| 4 | They then move their hands along the string in a rhythmic motion and try to pass the ring around without the person in the middle seeing it . |
| 5 | The second solution is to try to carry ambiguities around in the form of constraints [ Sussman & steele , 1980 ] . |
| 6 | The latter approach attempts to carry these ambiguities around in the form of constraints . |
| 7 | Grant casts his eyes around at the casualties of a drink-based evening albeit mainly non-alcoholic , and demurs , seeing that mild hysteria has set in . |
| 8 | A little later this Mexican boy who worked for us took Russell 's horse around to the stable . |
| 9 | Plus the fact that he was throwing his weight around with the police seemed to say Whitehall and no small potatoes , so we started with that . |
| 10 | I thought whatever 's that dancing around in the bedroom . |
| 11 | And at the swap over they had to swap equipment around for the reorganization . |
| 12 | Continue the lines around to the side edge of the door and mark the position of the mortise in the centre of the door edge . |
| 13 | If we are to maintain confidence in the system , there is no point in our mucking around with the map several times in each Parliament . |
| 14 | Modules , in this sense , do not have access to the contents of other modules and , in Carl Hewitt of MIT 's immortal words , ‘ modules should n't be able to dicker around with the insides of their neighbours ’ . |
| 15 | Make the grab move some blocks around on the screen and the manipulator gives the user a sense of the weights and solids involved . |
| 16 | The influence of Argyll and Milton clearly had proved insufficient to turn matters around in the excise establishment at Inverkeithing where it would have done most good . |
| 17 | There is a certain silliness around in the country . |
| 18 | A mother penguin can find her very own youngster in a colony of several thousand , even after many days at sea , having left the young one to mill around on the ice with thousand of others which to us appear to be identical . |
| 19 | A safe distance from shore all sails were set and , with the last anchor hauled in , the mizzen and foresails were backed — the crew hanging far out over the deep-blue water to keep the booms at an angle that would force her bows around towards the south so that her mainsails could fill . |
| 20 | Our second assignment was to paddle the boats around with the daggerboard — basically just a large , flat piece of wood . |
| 21 | Paul Gascoigne is also troubled by a cold , but he trained yesterday afternoon and , apart from Platt , it is only Batty and Dixon who are real concerns , and Taylor added : ‘ I know I may have to look at bringing another right-back and a midfielder , but I am keeping my fingers crossed about Dixon because there are no other right-backs around at the moment . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You see it happening all the time , the move around between the carer and the resident as to who is the adult and who is the child . |
| 23 | Sigourney was coming on last and we were going to move the seats around during the interval because we felt that she might not be able to concentrate sitting next to the heavily made-up and highly camp Julian . |
| 24 | After ringing the bell several times she reluctantly pushed her husband 's letter through the letter-box — he had very meanly sealed it before she could read it — and took the holdall around to the boiler room at the back of the house . |
| 25 | Asmodeus reined his devil steed around to the front of the cab . |
| 26 | There are some great hair and skin care collections around for the guys . |
| 27 | The joke around at the time was that it would be filmed with a hand-held camera . |
| 28 | To crash a plane into Beckindale around about the anniversary of Lockerbie it is n't funny at all it 's not funny and it 's not clever . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ he said , skipping on through the amateur boxing and back around to the broadcast channels again . |
| 30 | Startled , he turned , but Therese had darted , scooping her peacock train up over one arm , back around behind the screen , to the side he should have been on . |