Example sentences of "around on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compare brochures and shop around on price — many agents discount as much as £200-£300 on brochure prices . |
| 2 | I carry the video player around on motorcycle ! |
| 3 | Lightweight , quick-drying trousers are a real boon for the fast-moving traveller — whether you 're getting around on foot , by car or by plane . |
| 4 | Throughout Orwell 's Wigan Pier you have a strong sense of him tramping around on foot . |
| 5 | For all its shoddiness , people flock there , day and night , to spend their francs being whisked around on ghost trains and dodgem cars . |
| 6 | They all sat around on deck drinking punch and asking Rachel the usual questions . |
| 7 | Taking anti-depressants to get you over a hump like this makes the same sort of sense as using a crutch to get around on while a broken leg heals . |
| 8 | Peggy Patch is a freckled , rather passive rag doll who is discovered lounging around on location — by a trout stream , up a mountain , sitting on a shire horse — accompanied by a presenter in an anorak who strides around explaining things . |
| 9 | With singer Bradley acting out his Mozzer fantasies by lurching around on top of the monitors — only lacking a bunch of daffs stuffed down the back of his pants — their arrogance level has been hoisted a welcome couple of notches . |
| 10 | Lights flickered around on top of the Thing . |
| 11 | A skilled Goblin can direct his Squig vaguely towards the enemy , but some Squigs prove almost impossible to control and end up bouncing around on top of everybody . |
| 12 | And if the tape recorder had n't been rolling with me playing around on guitar , some of the songs would never have happened ; I would never have remembered them . |
| 13 | Judo : White remains the stylist in a world of brute force : Philip Nicksan meets a fighter on the mat after throwing his weight around on behalf of the British judo team |
| 14 | Primarily it was designed to be an animal fountain for the herds of beasts that sauntered around on market day . |
| 15 | Mr Cole said the area was used for horse-riding , was a haven for wildlife and people came from miles around on summer evenings to hear the nightjars . |
| 16 | As she says , her theoretical approach ‘ centres around on attempt to link social science and psychoanalytic theories in order to further understanding of the functioning of social organizations ’ ( Menzies , 1965 ) . |
| 17 | The youngster wrote in the past tense because she knew she would n't be around on Christmas Day when her Nan would open the box filled with her favourite jewellery . |
| 18 | This has n't got to much to do with his gangling , freakishly elongated frame , which he 's used to evolve a unique form of comedic body language , flapping around on stage as he does like a dislocated stick insect , the missing link between Jerry Lewis and Pee Wee Herman . |
| 19 | A lucky few even made it inside to see the Lizard King roll around on stage again . |
| 20 | He started fooling around on stage and brought the house down in the process , the tough audience quickly warming to his gritty humour . |
| 21 | On the opening night of a tour to support her new album Mir Mamma , there were first night nerves floating around on stage , but the performance did n't suffer and ranks as the best of the year . |
| 22 | Out of the blazing wreck he leaped , stumbling around on fire from head to toe and screaming . |
| 23 | ‘ When I drive through the town on a night I see large groups of youths standing around on street corners . |
| 24 | I could weep with frustration when I go around seeing the conditions some of our people work in , the pittance they have paid , young people hung around on street corners with no job and no real training . |
| 25 | If the swing around on landing is severe , it may be due to using too much pitch , which will aggravate the above problems . |