Example sentences of "[verb] around [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fumble around for the rest of my kit and fall over Shelagh , who is shining a torch gingerly in one of her boots . |
| 2 | This passage reveals concern for the points of the compass when clipping was in progress as the shepherd moved around under the tree to avoid the rays of the sun . |
| 3 | He moved around to the back of the house , and then ducked in to the laneway that ran behind it . |
| 4 | ’ For five minutes the two engineers moved around in the steam and smoke , and looked at the big engines . |
| 5 | Quite apart from the blunder there was one moment near the end of the game when he was walking around on the stage of Sadler 's Wells , unaware for a few minutes that it was his move . |
| 6 | If you practised walking around with the model in the hover , you should have got the hang of this already . |
| 7 | They moved into a flat in Bellevue Crescent , had a dog ( called ‘ Badger ’ , like the family dog in the book ) and wore moth eaten fur coats , walking around with the dog on a piece of string , rolling their own cigarettes ( a habit which has stuck ) and spending hours in the pub drinking scrumpy . |
| 8 | Wear loose fitting clothing to protect your shoulders , arms and legs when you 're walking around in the sun . |
| 9 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 10 | We just used to banter , have the odd drink together , fool around in the snow . |
| 11 | Tonight it 's the story of his uncle and as he stands around in the hall , he talks about his Uncle Rocco who was stationed in Ipswich . |
| 12 | The system consists of two parts : a transmitter which is plugged into the main audio system and a receiver which is carried around by the person . |
| 13 | These materials are highly complicated and important fluids which play a great part in the direction of the ways in which our bodies and minds function ; they are known as hormones , and are carried around in the bloodstream exercising effect on each other and on a variety of bodily processes . |
| 14 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 15 | Tom put the blacks up in the front room , crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps . |
| 16 | There are a few non-Leeds supporters lurking around on the list I think . |
| 17 | We now understand the day before another young boy af about nine saw a amn dressed exactly the same some distance away in the Sparcells estate so we can only assume that this man is lurking around in the area . |
| 18 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 19 | Tackling a black run in a blizzard was a worry , but when you only have a long weekend you ca n't hang around for the sun to shine . |
| 20 | Speed and mcalllister would hang around outside the Cov penalty area and snatch onto anything the Cov tried to clear . |
| 21 | Realizing I could n't hang around on the dole forever waiting for the Tate Gallery to offer me an exhibition , and also that my boyfriend , also on the dole , was not likely to be able to support me , I decided to go for further training . |
| 22 | Rolling bream are not frightened bream , nor do they hang around in the swim if they 've been spooked by an escaping fish . |
| 23 | I mean , either you 've got ta hang around in the morning , or he 's got ta hang around at night . |
| 24 | John likes to keep the horses separate so that they do n't kick each other , but Hopscotch often jumps into Milton 's paddock to keep him company ; and sometimes if the weather is bad , one of the children 's ponies is turned out with him , otherwise Milton , who is a bit of a softy , will hang around by the gate in the hope that someone will take pity on him and take him back to his warm stable . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He 's been a little funkateer since ‘ 85 , but he used to come around to the Bootsy Collins Rubber Band shows back in ‘ 75 and ‘ 76 . |
| 27 | He opened the little back gate and peered around in the dark for the shelter . |
| 28 | They simply wandered around in the dark , placing their bombs on the parked aircraft until they ran out of them . |
| 29 | The hands on the big wall clock jerked around with the enthusiasm of a convict doing forced labour , the offenders stared at their battered and scuffed shoes in awed silence with the exception of a drunk who had missed the dreaded word MINISTRY and who openly admired Frau Nordern 's figure but who , with the solidarity of the criminal underworld , was instantly hushed into silence by the other offenders . |
| 30 | So I was laid out in the back of the van on the bed and he 's driving down this field to put the tent , because it had little er bits you know where it 's marked out for you to camp , and I 'm driving around in the back saying , yes you 've , you 've just missed the fence there and you know . |