Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] around in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , either you 've got ta hang around in the morning , or he 's got ta hang around at night . |
| 2 | ‘ I think it 's a matter of stumbling around in the dark until we find a clue , ’ Loretta said gratefully . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , perhaps you might allow me to go for a walk from time to time , instead of waiting around in the servants ’ hall . |
| 4 | The effect is almost as though one were experiencing full immersion for the first time after years of paddling around in the shallows . |
| 5 | ‘ We never use these drawers , if he 'd put the light on instead of feeling around in the dark he 'd have found that out immediately . ’ |
| 6 | You can thus save money compared with an overdraft — and save the effort of shopping around in the Money Market for credit which is anyway less flexible . |
| 7 | And at last her mother was coming round , seduced by ‘ landscape ’ and ‘ architect ’ , nice clean professional words , nothing to do with grubbing around in the earth . |
| 8 | ‘ Forgive my asking , ’ she added , ‘ But are n't you wearing rather impractical gear for grubbing around in the earth or whatever it is you do ? ’ |
| 9 | For those of you shying away from hopping around in the water and tired of pedalling away on a bike , a new stepping machine from Powersport International could be just the thing you 're after . |
| 10 | The mountain goat 's ancestry , as a member of the Bovid family , gave it a good start : it gave the animal the means of subsisting on the poor mountain vegetation , and it provided it with feet that could be adapted to moving around in the precipitous terrain . |
| 11 | T was not the best night for standing around in the cold wind and rain ( OK so it 's undercover , but the wind do n't half blow through there ) watching telly ( and paying a fiver for the priviledge of doing so ) |
| 12 | Usually she tried to evade such duties , by hanging around in the bathroom or in her bedroom ; she loathed the tedious , repetitive business of the house . |
| 13 | It is sad to have to make a living by grubbing around in the dirt of a national calamity . ’ |