Example sentences of "around [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the er sweets and er chocolates etcetera that er we received , erm I think we in fact er , erm yeah well I , we obviously appreciate them very much because er they were something that we a lot of and erm I know that er , that you must know that when you er were out in Ipswich , Framlingham or around about that er you met up a group , there was a group of children and I 'm sure you heard the er familiar up , chum . |
| 2 | In the su around about this area , the the local housing estates , a great many of our investing members just live practically round the corner , so we get to know them very well . |
| 3 | Disk Compression/doubling — there have been rumours flying around about this facility for quite some time . |
| 4 | AROUND about this time every year leaves fall off deciduous trees . |
| 5 | He also had to juggle the practicalities of being coach , going on part-time high-school teaching , and seeing if Otago Cricket Association would continue employing him in the off-season as executive director when he would n't be around for much of the summer . |
| 6 | The trouble with this attitude is that there are just too many bands around for that to happen . |
| 7 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 8 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 9 | Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years . |
| 10 | Hooker Phil Kearns , at only 24 , is undoubtedly going to be around for many years to come and successfully led the Australian under-21 team to victory over New Zealand under 21 's four years ago . |
| 11 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 12 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 13 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 14 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's what I hang around for all day , ’ said the poet , ‘ when your mother is doing something useful . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Do you think I would have waited around for all this if I had ? ’ |
| 17 | Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK . |
| 18 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 19 | There have been presentation graphics programs around for several years now in the PC marketplace ; programs such as Harvard Graphics , Lotus Freelance , Daverelle , Genigraphics and 35mm Express , all merrily turning out graphs , charts and text for use as presentation aids . |
| 20 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 21 | You 've just said you have n't been around for several weeks . |
| 22 | to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah |
| 23 | It 's the second time around for both of them , but they are clearly devoted to each other . |
| 24 | When his wife died he began to look around for another ; someone who would give him the children he needed . |
| 25 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
| 26 | I stuck around for another seven years for the children 's sake but it was very unsatisfactory . |
| 27 | McLaren then began shopping around for another label , pointedly ignoring Virgin . |
| 28 | Chuters had lost part of their workforce to the war — the man in the apron had bad feet — but there was not so much work around for those who remained . |
| 29 | There 's enough space for whose who want a challenging gallop and captivating scenery all around for those who prefer a more leisurely pace . |
| 30 | A card was passed around for those present to send their good wishes for a speedy recovery . |