Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , we have fossils that just suddenly appear around the world at one moment in geological history and " whence , and whither flown again , who knows " ? |
| 2 | He says I do n't give my mother enough help around the house . |
| 3 | — But I just hang around the flat all day getting bored . |
| 4 | ‘ Just drive around the plant . ’ |
| 5 | Nothing to do but go upstairs and sleep ; only the lights in the morning room and she could turn those off without entering , just reach around the door . |
| 6 | I usually walk around the corner to a place nearby , but today I thought it might be worthwhile to eat at a small Chinese restaurant several blocks away where a lot of newspaper guys gather . |
| 7 | His eyes still dart around the room looking for a weapon . |
| 8 | ‘ Homage to the Snakes which ever move around the Earth |
| 9 | personal characteristics are laughed at , family likenesses in the present generations are pointed out , even among the pigs and dogs which still wander around the village . |
| 10 | They have been jaw locking , tail shaking and they always move around the tank together . |
| 11 | ‘ And yet you still carry around the baggage of the past , ’ he said cryptically . |
| 12 | Many of these wells still exist around the village , and with old houses being demolished and the areas being cleared , ancient wells are being discovered . |
| 13 | Technical problems usually revolve around the degree to which we can isolate or manipulate a single target system in a consistent and reliable way ( Bures , Buresova , and Huston 1976 ) . |
| 14 | I lean into the compost box to grab a double armful of grass cuttings which I take to the courgette beyond the shed and carefully place around the stem . |
| 15 | Although the genitalia are the most likely sites for a chancre to be found , they also occur around the anus in both sexes and are occasionally seen on the lips , tongue , or nipple . |
| 16 | Now place around the head of this statue angels ; place in his left hand a sword ; and light in his realistically enamelled eyes a welcome and a promise such as I had never , never in all my years seen . |
| 17 | Some — such as those asserting that most of the world 's people now live around the Ocean — are questionable ( as will be explored shortly ) . |
| 18 | Similarly , some species of Chironomyces , common on the aquatic beetle family Dytiscidae , often occur around the row of hairs on the outer margins of the insect 's hard anterior wings . |
| 19 | Hand coils create unwanted slack and immediately tighten around the hand under load , trapping the fingers and preventing an effective arrest . |
| 20 | It should also be noted that the discussions here revolve around the question of access for a comparatively restricted , specialist research community . |
| 21 | This chapter illustrates some attractors : these static illustrations are a poor substitute for watching the trajectories approach and then wind around the attractor , and for following the sequence of bifurcations ( changes in type of attractor ) as a parameter is changed . |
| 22 | You then go around the south-west shoulder of Sgurr Dearg to reach the corrie . |
| 23 | Within this context , the conversations mostly revolve around the use of condoms for penetrative and oral sex ( where a penis is involved ) , and the general advocacy of non-penetrative sexual activities . |
| 24 | ‘ We have a dedicated fund set aside for the regions , specifically Northern Ireland and Scotland and we systematically go around the country to meet independent producers . |