Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] around [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a choice of simple current/deposit account facilities , fixed deposit accounts , or managed currency funds and a highly personalised level of private banking , you may need to shop around for the most suitable . |
| 2 | As Britain 's largest electricity maker , NatPower has to shop around for the cheapest fuel available . |
| 3 | Wants to look around for the wallet while I 'm not here , thought Joe . |
| 4 | She could n't be expected to hang around with the press and everyone else knowing that she was responsible for last night 's false alarm . |
| 5 | ‘ Buryin' 'em at sea , ’ Walter persists , and he lifts the boathook and starts to stir around in the darkness beyond the terrace 's supporting pillars . |
| 6 | In that case , our malevolent might have decided to wait around on the off-chance that he would go to the kitchen or bathroom . |
| 7 | Owen never repeated this claim in the pre-Darwinian era , but liberal theologians such as the Oxford mathematician and philosopher Baden Powell began to come around to the idea of ‘ designed evolution ’ during the 1850s . |
| 8 | As I struggled to my feet and started to search around in the grass for my rifle , two medics were coming towards me . |
| 9 | When the net has been pursed and brought to the side of the boat , the seiner can release the tension on the headrope of the net by the backdown procedure , which enables the back of the net with the finer mesh to sink and makes it easier for dolphins to escape , while the tuna continue to swim around in the net below . |
| 10 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |
| 11 | but I said well at least you 've got it all done , you do n't have to rush around at the last minute . |
| 12 | At one extreme , the editors could be given total licence to film anything they liked and to show the House in their own way ( as when covering a football match , or as in some American state legislatures where camera and microphone men are even allowed to wander around on the floor of the House ) . |
| 13 | I do n't think you should be allowed to tinker around with the with things like this say within six months of a general election and that 's why they should have fixed term appointments . |
| 14 | Lucy was left to kick around by the unmanned Reservations desk for a couple of minutes , and then a waiter appeared to lead her over to the table . |
| 15 | Arriving in Cyprus ahead of Othello , an understandably nervous Desdemona is forced to hang around on the quay and , in an effortful charade of lightheartedness , swap bawdy banter with Iago and company . |
| 16 | Unless something is done , dealer margins will continue in free fall and the customers will continue to shop around for the best price in the belief that service is universally lousy , and that 's in nobody 's interest . |
| 17 | ‘ Huh , ’ said Angalo , nonchalantly trying to swivel around in the chair in case any tentacled things with teeth were trying to creep up on him . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , if you got too close to him you were tempted to look around for the source of the odour — perhaps there was an overdressed salad in the vicinity ? |
| 19 | As a boy , he had liked to scrape around in the fields ; he had eavesdropped when the whereabouts of discoveries were discussed , and walked with the farmers when they ploughed an old olive grove to turn it over to fruit trees . |
| 20 | Bland little symbols were only mirrors of colour and shape that she had to push around into the order her teachers wanted . |
| 21 | Things begin to crack ; sometimes the cracks become gaps and then we can open them up to make spaces full of creative possibility , but sometimes the cracks become fissures and everything collapses and we have to scratch around in the rubble looking for bits of junk that we can cobble together into something ripe with meaning . |