Example sentences of "around in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While education and other social crises deepened , state officials were seen being driven around in expensive foreign cars and eating lavish banquets . |
| 2 | She sighed deeply and stared around in abject despair . |
| 3 | Young people from working-class backgrounds , for instance , are more likely to spend time with a boy/girl-friend whereas young people from G middle-class backgrounds continue to move around in mixed sex groups for a longer period , perhaps anticipating an extended period of dependence on parents as they head for further or higher education . |
| 4 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 5 | If you go around in threes it 's useless . |
| 6 | Muggers went around in threes when she was out . |
| 7 | Well , they both got it around in 75 and the crowd was on Seve 's side good and proper . |
| 8 | I flipped from fury straight into hilarity and collapsed on the ground beside him , rolling around in helpless laughter too . |
| 9 | I think if you go back a hundred years the problems in British culture were much worse , but nonetheless I do think there 's a tremendous arrogance around in modern so-called civilized Britain , and particularly when they talk about the ancient civilization of Israel , I just think that they were a far more humane nation than we are . |
| 10 | They were standing around in frozen postures like a group caught when the music stops in a game of Statues . |
| 11 | Entities zoom around in simulated three-dimensional space , colliding with each other , shooting each other down , swallowing each other amid revolting noises . |
| 12 | Usually enough for Gloria to shampoo her hair , for both of them to swish around in shallow tepid water , followed by their underclothes . |
| 13 | Much as I love the works of J.R.R. Tolkien , I refuse to call any dog Bilbo Baggins , so Bill he has become ; anyway , the only resemblance between Bill and a hobbit is that both have hairy feet and a liking for grubbing around in sandy holes . |
| 14 | I do n't think the consumer would ev say that and I think sometimes one forgets er people forget the consumer I mean the erm er but obviously by us going onto the Hong Kong route we are going to reduce British Airways and Cathay Pacific 's profits on that route considerably , we we think that because our costs are considerably less than British Airways , and I suspect considerably less than Cathay Pacific , that the player that er could be around in thirty or forty years ' time is Virgin Atlantic . |
| 15 | From here they must await their wave , drop into it , and be swept beneath the overhang into the cave where they grope around in total darkness filling their bags with birds ' nests . |
| 16 | Above our hearing , bats flit around in total darkness , judging their distance from objects by emitting high-pitched bursts of sound and timing how long it takes fro the echo of the sound to bounce back . |
| 17 | One or two species of fruit bats , however , for instance Rousettus , are capable of finding their way around in total darkness where eyes , however good , must be powerless . |
| 18 | I think we 've got aesthetics to offer that are n't around in contemporary music . |
| 19 | Without bacteria , moulds and fungi , we would all be wading around in undecayed vegetation many miles deep . |
| 20 | Running around in ever-decreasing circles |
| 21 | Fully-laden take-offs and five-minute controlled climbs may be OK for a formal C of A air test , but you ca n't ( or should n't ) chuck an aeroplane around in that state . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've got no goddamned right to go poking around in that computer , ’ Frank snarled . |
| 23 | Both give us the sense of oppression and lack of freedom ; if you are confined to a region , you can only move around in that region . |
| 24 | What other little maggots have you got running around in that fertile brain of yours ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I see enough of you and Gesner racing around in that appalling car of his without watching you prancing together on a stage . ’ |
| 26 | Which if you imagine you 've got twenty , twenty four , twenty four people all sat around in that particular format and I nominate somebody within the group , twenty p pairs of eyes focus on this one guy , if he does n't know the answer to the question he 's incredibly embarrassed . |
| 27 | He 's still driving around in that one now . |
| 28 | When , when you come to think about it , around in that area . |
| 29 | Delegates looked around in all directions to pinpoint the accuser . |
| 30 | Once more , as in the early days , movies were charging around in all directions and not really getting anywhere . |