Example sentences of "around for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shopping around for a top-up will allow the best price while still keeping the cutlery service in the same style . |
| 2 | I wandered around for a bit and then came back again . |
| 3 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 4 | I dawdled around for a while and then headed south . |
| 5 | Then I wandered around for a while , casting wistful glances at my tables . |
| 6 | Lowe ball-nuts have been around for a while and they are one of the best devices of this sort that I have used so far . |
| 7 | Yesterday , in Tokyo , she indicated that she may be around for a little while longer than expected . |
| 8 | You thrash around for a few minutes , trying not to breathe , but you have to inhale sometimes . ’ |
| 9 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 10 | We sit around for a bit , chatting . |
| 11 | There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit . |
| 12 | I hang around for a bit , pretending to look at some writing on the board . |
| 13 | Charles looked around for a suitable candidate and nudged , no doubt , by a couple of doting grandmothers , found Lady Diana Spencer . |
| 14 | In that state they became ‘ sylvan demons ’ , ‘ either falling into a deep slumber or looking around for a fight . ’ |
| 15 | Pension funds have been around for a century or more , but their modern form was set in 1950 when Charles Wilson , then president of General Motors , set up a fund for his workers . |
| 16 | Stewart stayed with him for about an hour and a half and Lamb hung around for a while , but Smith was his main ally and , as the day ebbed away , it seemed as though only the new ball stood between England and a draw . |
| 17 | Casting around for a task for the Crown Prince , Palace advisers had considered putting him to work leading a development campaign within the Commonwealth , before the inner-city initiative seized his imagination . |
| 18 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 19 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 20 | I wandered around for a while , in a bit of a daze , and then strolled back here . |
| 21 | She 's dead , only she 'll be able to move around for a bit longer . |
| 22 | She looked around for a blunt instrument . |
| 23 | Whether the quartet actively looked around for a site is not known but in 1905 they formed a syndicate by joining with two other men — J. A. Rawlins and F. E. Theodor — who were already buying and selling land for development in the Shiplake and Harpsden areas and whose earlier purchases included Bolney Court , Lower Bolney Farm and Upper Bolney Farm . |
| 24 | Not surprisingly , everyone looked around for a similar opportunity . |
| 25 | In this climate , shrewd and sensitive individuals with an instinct for self-preservation looked around for a partner and pair-bonded . |
| 26 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 27 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 28 | Butler could n't adapt to his new defensive role , and Chapman began to look around for a more solid defender , not necessarily a player with much technical skill , but one who could clear accurately under pressure , feeding the ball to an inside-forward . |
| 29 | We pushed each other around for a few minutes . |
| 30 | As far as I know computers have not yet been brought to bear on the Synoptic Problem which has been tossed around for a century . |