Example sentences of "around [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women on the part-time farms were often the only people around during the short winter days so all outside stock had to be attended to by them . |
| 2 | Some bands stay up most of the night and that is why they are never around during the day . |
| 3 | What they want out of a gang fight is a nice big bruise … that they can show around during the week . ’ |
| 4 | Where there 's muck , there 's brass , as the saying goes — and there was plenty of brass around during the early years of the Industrial Revolution in England for those with the skills and the enterprise to go looking for it . |
| 5 | Sigourney was coming on last and we were going to move the seats around during the interval because we felt that she might not be able to concentrate sitting next to the heavily made-up and highly camp Julian . |
| 6 | The golden boys , those who never give the bad news , who make sure that when the plant breaks down they are not available to inform anybody , and have made absolutely certain they were n't around during the run-up to such a disaster , are rewarded . |
| 7 | I also had time to look around during the year and consider colours and character of growth . |
| 8 | ‘ Why did n't my father tell me that you were going to be here ? ’ she asked petulantly , thinking that at least he would only be around during the daytime , and she could avoid him completely without too much trouble . |
| 9 | that helicopter 's were fucking around during the second World War but they , they were |
| 10 | Well one of the things that I think has been very striking about John Major , and unfortunately again I 'm comparing him with Mrs. Thatcher , but it 's very difficult not to , thank goodness she was n't around during the Gulf war — that 's my feeling — because I do n't think I could have borne the idea of erm any more rejoice and up an atom and things like that . |
| 11 | Word had already gone around about the sex sequence , and there was also some interest in the political content , coming as it did shortly after the attempts at peace in Vietnam and Nixon 's pledge to end the war . |
| 12 | I like mountains around about the 6000 , lower 7000m range . |
| 13 | ‘ Though I 've got to tell you there 's some gossip going around about the cousin you 've got staying . ’ |
| 14 | And , it promises to tell ‘ a much wider tale than just XPG4 ’ at around about the same time . |
| 15 | Around about the period when Monsieur Henri Mignet and his incredible Pou du Ciel , or ‘ Flying Flea ’ , was captivating the Great British Public 's imagination with his aeronautical exploits in a home-made aeroplane , several American inventors were offering much the same aerial excitement to their own countrymen , but with rather more ‘ conventional ’ designs . |
| 16 | This can be attributed to a number of factors : the increased availability of street heroin in Wirral during the early 1980s ; the periodic droughts of pot and speed at around about the same time ( some of the users suggested a direct relation between these phenomena ) ; the existence of large numbers of users initiated in the 1978–81 period who acted both as models to emulate and who were also probably the first dealers the new initiates came into contact with . |
| 17 | I think it 's the around about the first or the second of April . |
| 18 | So when all these changes were going , going on with the , the machinery , the , the bonus system etcetera etcetera you , you think there were other facilities arose around about the same time which made the work environment still more er still better if you like ? |
| 19 | ‘ Rumours are going around about the bread It is making , the increase in circulation , the increase in ads , and yet that cat is still hustling for bread . ’ |
| 20 | Great reports are going around about the celebration of the Easter Triduum . |
| 21 | It 's stayed around about the eight just over eight percent , there has n't , there has n't been much movement . |
| 22 | To crash a plane into Beckindale around about the anniversary of Lockerbie it is n't funny at all it 's not funny and it 's not clever . |
| 23 | No , it 's around about the off in n it ? |
| 24 | Erm , first of all , what if the abuser and the abused are around about the same age ? |
| 25 | on the basis of a hundred per hundred thousand square feet to which you 'd have to add obviously a sort of surrounding area from the square footage used for a distribution warehouse , it looks as though it 's around about the thirteen |
| 26 | All I want to obtain from you is that the information the , that it will not be excluded around about the end , as soon as they take place . |
| 27 | The subtleties of the contest — running off the ball , watching an individual contest between two players rather than following the ball around through the camera lens — may be sacrificed but these failings have not deterred the audience . |
| 28 | MVS is still supreme in IBM 's view and expected to be around through the decade as a leader . |
| 29 | ‘ You see it happening all the time , the move around between the carer and the resident as to who is the adult and who is the child . |
| 30 | There is also a section devoted to the polite ways of ‘ playing around between the classes ; you do n't have to be British to know that a great sexual attraction exists between people not like us ’ . |