Example sentences of "[pron] around [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'll always be someone around at the places described here and the grumpiness that seems to infect so many British crags these days has n't spread here yet . |
| 2 | The frizzy-rugged beaner at the wheel shouted something and threw himself around for a while , but I kept on not not smoking quietly in the back , and nothing happened . |
| 3 | ‘ He is small of stature and , like a small fellow who throws himself around on the rugby field , he brings out his natural aggression through falling off things and doing stunts . |
| 4 | I have n't seen you around for a couple of days . " |
| 5 | Have n't seen you around for a while . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't think the boys are too keen to have you around at the moment , and I ca n't say I blame them . |
| 7 | But , as an un-named source put it , ‘ he was the only one around with a pair of gloves . ’ |
| 8 | To be able to fly one around in a circuit made you one of the top flyers in the world . |
| 9 | There was no one around in the hall to see me as I stepped inside . |
| 10 | ‘ Lot of them around at the moment . ’ |
| 11 | Should be easy , he decided , you broke the eggs , bashed them around with a fork , not spilling them over yourself if you could help it , then put them in the frying-pan . |
| 12 | And delivering them around on a Friday night and Saturday morning . |
| 13 | The beauty of it is that you can easily move them around on the wood . |
| 14 | Their working lives ( up to about fifteen hours ) can be maximised if you handle them with care , so avoid subjecting them to mechanical shocks when in use ; switch off and allow them to cool before moving them around on the set . |
| 15 | He flails them around in the air to dry them . |
| 16 | The ‘ Jowters ’ , too , would purchase some to sell them around in the country districts . |
| 17 | Fearful of the obvious dangers of traffic and molestation , parents have reacted by forbidding street play to younger offspring and by chauffeuring them around in the family car , itself more widely available . |
| 18 | Use a couple of small ones as worry beads , jiggling them around in the palm of your hand . |
| 19 | As they were knocking them down , Corman was following me around with the camera directing my speaking parts . |
| 20 | I asked if people like Shitwell , as we called him among other things , would shove me around after the revolution ; whether there 'd be theatre directors at all or whether we 'd all get a turn at telling the others where to stand and what to wear . |
| 21 | She lets me furl her around for a while , and makes those shammy gasps she knows I like , and gives detailed promise of all that cocked and candid talent — before she calls a halt , slithers off the bed , corrects her clothing , brushes her hair , changes her shoes , powders her nose , slides my Johnson out of her mouth and insists on lunch . |
| 22 | I picked up my fags and the bag of grass from near the campfire and motioned her around to the driver 's door . |
| 23 | Vimla now took centre-stage , while Panna grabbed an unwilling daughter-in-law and whirled her around in a waltz for a few steps . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've seen him around with the Padre too . |
| 25 | If he let Firelight out of her box she would follow him around like a dog . |
| 26 | He hit Tanner in the stomach , a short punch to wind him , then snapped him around in a half-nelson and throat-hold . |
| 27 | I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’ |
| 28 | His young rider , ‘ Wendy ’ , saddled him up , and started to trot him around in the practice ring with a number of other horses . |
| 29 | The uncharacteristic profanity brought him around in the chair . |
| 30 | and er , they sent her er bouquet and a card for her birthday , she was seventy , and she wrote a letter back and she passed it around for every body to read , and there was , in her writing , which was very clear |