Example sentences of "[verb] up around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Electric blue caterpillar long as my arm , coiled up around the reactor ! |
| 2 | These terms are all very descriptive , since the material which accumulates around a Strombolian vent does indeed look rather like boiler slag , but it is more correctly called scoria , and the cones which build up around the vent scoria cones . |
| 3 | Any book about Scottish football inevitably brings the reader into direct contact with the major Glasgow clubs , Rangers and Celtic , and such is the passion they arouse , that a degree of false diplomacy has grown up around the way the clubs and their players are treated . |
| 4 | He might have said to her that some time in the middle of the nineteenth century a cult had grown up around the idea of the home . |
| 5 | If political imperatives dictate further and unpredictable shifts towards shorter maturities in future , the result will be to disrupt all the different credit markets ( in interest-rate derivatives , corporate debt and mortgage-backed securities , for example ) that have grown up around the Treasury 's vast borrowing schedule . |
| 6 | She has appealed to local people to give as many details as possible about the legends , history and myths which have grown up around the village over the years . |
| 7 | Town centres have grown up around the market place over many generations . |
| 8 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 9 | The popularity of cider seems to have grown up around the time of the Norman Conquest , and the best soil and climate for growing apples dictated that the south-west became predominant in cider-making . |
| 10 | The Trade Marks Act 1938 , following previous legislation , serves two main purposes : first , to protect the goodwill and reputation which a trader has built up around the mark involved and , secondly , to prevent the public from being deceived into buying inferior goods in the belief that they are made by another manufacturer . |
| 11 | When the feathery shoots appear , they will grow up around the carrot top to make a pretty hanging basket . |
| 12 | The Anglo Scotia lace factory was built around 1870 — a Gothic four-storey building of extravagant design for such a purpose , with castellated turrets and parapet recalling some of the fortress-like factories put up around the time of the Luddite riots . |
| 13 | The curvature of space-time caused by the matter in the universe can then lead to the three space directions and the imaginary time direction meeting up around the back . |
| 14 | A consensus has welled up around the church and left as its high-water mark a distinctive view of doubt which is prejudicial to faith and quite illegitimate . |
| 15 | A real science is now growing up around the concept of the human window , while there is no evidence or logical reason to accept Fredkin 's supposition at all . |
| 16 | A spatter cone or spatter ring consisting exclusively of welded cow-pats often builds up around the vent . |
| 17 | The wife come in she stays up around the corner and keeps an eye on the on a Saturday . |
| 18 | Looking outside again Joseph saw then that the smoke and explosions were emanating from tall bamboo poles set up around the courtyard . |
| 19 | The businessmen then trade their wares , which also include pictures and antiques , at makeshift auctions set up around the province . |
| 20 | As before , he disguised himself in beggar 's clothes , and hobbled into the village which had sprung up around the river of wine . |
| 21 | If the past two years of desktop publishing has had an impact on the traditional typesetting market it must surely be reflected in the number of PostScript bureau that have sprung up around the country . |
| 22 | The number of alumni living abroad is also staggering and it looks likely that more Napier groups could be set up around the globe . |
| 23 | A computermail database network has even been set up around the country for fans to debate the killer of Laura Palmer , the lovely blonde homecoming queen whose body mysteriously washes onto a river bank near a lumbermill in the fictional Pacific northwest town of Twin Peaks . |
| 24 | On his arrival , he had been satisfied to see the defences that had been set up around the hospital , and had every intention of congratulating those responsible . |
| 25 | The wall alongside is then followed up around the curve of Simon Fell and the top of Ingleborough is reached from the north-east . |
| 26 | There is always something soming up around the corner . |
| 27 | Security 's being tightened up around the breeding pens … but staff are committed to maintaining the same easy access to the birds for visitors to the trust . |
| 28 | Way in the background , Lucy could see Josie with her back to the door as she cleaned up around the makeup chair . |
| 29 | If this sort of thing could take place at the most sacred shrine in Delhi , then the festivals at the lesser dargahs-such as that which grew up around the grave of the saintly Emperor Bahadur Shah I — could be even more lively . |
| 30 | Today the Abbey 's massive gatehouse overlooks the ancient battlefield and , on the opposite side , the lovely little market town called Battle , which grew up around the Abbey walls . |