Example sentences of "around it and " in BNC.
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| 1 | What seem to be four candlesticks — designed in the same sugary style — stand guard around it and a fifth , a little distance from the main confectionary , is crowned with a gilded figure . |
| 2 | So we can calm and comfort a horse in the same way by wrapping our arms around it and holding it closely . |
| 3 | A deese is common ground but James Lamb poached it , built high walls around it and made a garden , unexpectedly large in that congested town . |
| 4 | Because it is not one of the more imposing buildings for which public funds are more readily available , it has had to rely on the care and attention of those who live around it and they are among the poorer people of the city . |
| 5 | Sometimes , when a volcano erupts in the sea , massive carpets of floating pumice accumulate on the sea around it and may drift a long way from it . |
| 6 | Alum pot itself could not fail to be noticed by the first settlers in the district , its yawning gulf constituting an obvious danger to both man and beast ; in the course of time , a wall was built around it and trees planted to indicate its position . |
| 7 | Keep the sail still , balance using hips and knees When the sail is sheeted or moved to retain balance , it spoils the airflow around it and wastes valuable power . |
| 8 | He then wrapped a piece of red flannel around it and placed it under his arm . |
| 9 | Loganberries and raspberries grew on wires at both sides of the garden which had a centre bed with paths around it and beds running next to the fences . |
| 10 | When it was the right shape she blew on it , then closed her fist around it and began to massage the bull 's neck and shoulders and back and rump , tapping it hard and rhythmically with the knuckles of the clenched fist . |
| 11 | Around it and along the sea-front the more fashion-conscious or sycophantic aristocracy and gentry provided their own residences , usually in a much more restrained classical idiom , such as that of Royal Crescent . |
| 12 | Having laid out the wording , you should then appraise the space left around it and choose a suitable design . |
| 13 | Holding the ring in his hand , he closed his fingers around it and squeezed . |
| 14 | It has a deer park around it and a really pretty church virtually in the back yard . |
| 15 | Finally , having scrubbed and soaked the Curiowood , this can be placed just off-centre to break up the open area left , with Fountain plants around it and elsewhere in the foreground . |
| 16 | The Vimy was too large to construct a hangar around it and so , exposed to the elements , rebuilding work commenced with only a set of canvas screens for shelter . |
| 17 | Once the engine was exposed on both sides , hawsers were placed around it and it was then lifted from the hole . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the town council is divided on whether to make the cathedral less accessible to desperate men by placing a fence around it and thus lose a centuries-old tradition . |
| 19 | The purpose of a sleeping bag is to insulate the body from the cold around it and to prevent heat from escaping . |
| 20 | In the 15th century it was transformed into a landowner 's residence , then vineyards were planted all around it and a cellar created . |
| 21 | Overthrow made from ticking , 130cm wide , £13.50/m , wire basket with candleholders , £21 ; all from The Conran Shop ; we painted the basket red , twined ivy around it and lined it with moss , before filling with fruit . |
| 22 | This unpleasant structure merges well with the rocks cape around it and was used , during the Second World War , as a prison . |
| 23 | Similarly , the gravity of the sun keeps the planets in orbit around it and stops the earth from shooting off into the darkness of interstellar space . |
| 24 | Donna did n't manage to get her finger around the trigger but she did pull the weapon clear , closing her hand around it and using it as a club . |
| 25 | You wo n't be allowed on Silbury Hill as it 's a Site of Special Scientific Interest but you can walk around it and get good views . |
| 26 | For clearly one of the principal characteristics of sculpture in the round is that the spectator is able , and is indeed often encouraged or compelled , to walk around it and study it from all angles . |
| 27 | Then the head is distorted in a sweeping spiral movement so that the spectator is obliged to move completely around it and thus gathers a very complete idea about it ; and , owing to the element of distortion , from several positions one sees more of the head than would be possible in ordinary vision . |
| 28 | Father owns the pottery , a bit of scrubland around it and a couple of small fields . |
| 29 | Then they lay like the spokes of a wheel around it and heard the sound of the river and the night fowl before drifting off to sleep . |
| 30 | You do n't want to get caught , you 'll work in a secluded place , you 'll go for a place that 's got hedges around it and where you ca n't see the door . |