Example sentences of "[verb] around the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm pretty sure that I was the only mother & baby entrant as I struggled on sometimes running , sometimes walking around the 10 mile course encouraged by the smiles and cheers of the many people who lined the route . |
| 2 | A week of walking around the beautiful Lakeland Fells proved an energetic break for outdoor action . |
| 3 | His babe in arms would be no more responsive to Lloyd George 's leonine appearance than would an accompanying parakeet in a cage and if both , having seen him , were then carried around the National Gallery , it would be equally valid to claim that they had seen the works of art on display as well . |
| 4 | The other is a political ethos which has structured the vocabulary with which economic distress can be addressed around the archetypal notion of regeneration . |
| 5 | St Nicholas Cathedral at the corner of our square is a great deep cavern of dusky toned Baroque , the light upheld by the dark shadows which flow in elegant curliques and whisps around the ornate ceiling , along pillars and walls emblazoned with the richness of colour that only an intensely , at times intellectually , emotional and predominantly Catholic country could produce . |
| 6 | These relatively thin walls are largely composed of cellulose , in the form of fibrillae , and Professor Preston , of Leeds , finds that these thin threads are disposed in the form of a very steep spiral or helix , wound around the long axes of the cells ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 7 | The procession wound around the whole tournament area , knights and men-at-arms acknowledging the cheers and cries of the crowd . |
| 8 | Cut out long thin strips for trimming around the top edge of the boat and fix on with a dampened paint brush . |
| 9 | Instead it pivots around the main wheel . |
| 10 | Emily paced around the book-lined study and blamed her father for his hostile attitude to Craig . |
| 11 | Feminist differences which erupted around the 1912 amendment act were symptomatic of growing divisions within the women 's movement over sexuality . |
| 12 | In Sarajevo , some of the heaviest shelling in recent months erupted around the besieged city as leaders of Bosnia 's warring factions prepared for a new round of peace talks in New York . |
| 13 | FOR THE NEXT SEVEN WEEKS they moseyed around the Western Isles , often encountering rough weather : Skye , Raasay , Coll , Mull , Ulva , Inchkenneth and Iona . |
| 14 | Pride of place must go to the bathing complexes at Bath , with their normal and curative facilities grouped around the hot springs and the Great Bath . |
| 15 | There are no outstanding houses but the lines of brick houses grouped around the central green and round smaller greens in other parts of the village form a pleasing composition . |
| 16 | The humans clustered around the stricken lorry . |
| 17 | Additionally it has been recognized that the largest concentrations of first-class villas often clustered around the small towns in preference to major towns or cities . |
| 18 | Clustered around the main building are a number of older stone-built dye-houses , drying stoves and outbuildings , some of which have been imaginatively converted . |
| 19 | Corvan seems to draw on the ‘ traditional ’ associations — the feelings of continuity — clustered around the Scottish tune , ‘ Na Good Luck about the House ’ , to support his nostalgically cast complaint . |
| 20 | But Sir Norman and Mr Heseltine rallied around the Prime Minister , saying his survival had not been threatened by the bitter speech yesterday . |
| 21 | But Sir Norman and Trade President Michael Heseltine rallied around the Prime Minister saying his survival had not been threatened by yesterday 's dramatic speech . |
| 22 | But Sir Norman and Mr Heseltine rallied around the Prime Minister , saying his survival had not been threatened by the bitter speech yesterday . |
| 23 | Native bush curled around the top end of the lake . |
| 24 | Formal user groups are organised around the General Household Survey and the Labour Force Survey . |
| 25 | A dredge chugging around the Cornish coastline will suck up , with equipment resembling a giant vacuum cleaner , the mining waste that previous generations of tin miners have allowed to flow out to sea in streams and rivers . |
| 26 | However , if you now have the determination to become a bigger fish in a bigger pool , then you will take what occurred around the lunar eclipse on August 6th as a signal to put the past behind you and devote all your energy to plants designed to give you a greater degree of freedom . |
| 27 | From Corran , it is possible to reach Kinlochhourn at the head of the loch by a footpath climbing around the steep hill rising behind . |
| 28 | The maker hand-cuts the kerfing ( the triangular-section strip around the inside edge that increases the gluing area of the sides for securing the front and back ) so that the saw-cuts are widely spaced in some areas and closely spaced around the tight curves of the cutaway . |
| 29 | Several low rise hotels , backed by quiet citrus groves , are spaced around the half mile bay . |
| 30 | A fluid will now form inside the containing membrane , forcing the cells outward towards its surface so that , in effect , a cellular shell develops around the fluid-filled cavity . |