Example sentences of "around in [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | I flipped from fury straight into hilarity and collapsed on the ground beside him , rolling around in helpless laughter too . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They were standing around in frozen postures like a group caught when the music stops in a game of Statues . |
| 8 | Entities zoom around in simulated three-dimensional space , colliding with each other , shooting each other down , swallowing each other amid revolting noises . |
| 9 | Usually enough for Gloria to shampoo her hair , for both of them to swish around in shallow tepid water , followed by their underclothes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I think we 've got aesthetics to offer that are n't around in contemporary music . |
| 15 | Without bacteria , moulds and fungi , we would all be wading around in undecayed vegetation many miles deep . |
| 16 | Running around in ever-decreasing circles |
| 17 | Many mechanised units which should be riding around in armoured personnel carriers are still mounted in trucks — some are even reduced to walking . |
| 18 | He warned of the dangers of liking to walk around in flowing robes . |
| 19 | He lay on the ground thrashing around in great pain , strange choked gurgling sounds escaping from his throat . |
| 20 | Hundreds — mostly men , mostly young and mostly in militia uniform — mill around in small groups , in silence , moving from grave to grave . |
| 21 | Entering the dining room shortly afterwards , he looked around in vain for Kee . |
| 22 | Tabitha looked around in vain for a few minutes . |
| 23 | What clearly frustrates him is that so much of the money now sloshing around in professional tennis , is being spent in damaging — or at least potentially damaging ways — rather than for the good of the game , as well as for the good of the individuals who are benefitting . |
| 24 | Females under thirty tried to look like thumbsucking little girls ; with turned-in toes , they skipped around in buttock-skimming shifts over pale tights . |
| 25 | Small , immature goats suffer most ; they find moving around in deep snow most difficult and demanding . |
| 26 | This Barth saw as the irreplaceable basis of Christian theology ; and , he insisted , once it had been recognised , there could be no possible reason for casting around in other directions , and certainly not for turning theology back into the contemplation of our own spiritual navels , or for blunting the challenge and promise of the gospel by seeking to reinterpret or ‘ improve ’ it in the terms of some alternative ( and therefore competing ) theological or philosophical frame of reference . |
| 27 | Gardeners are an inquisitive breed and when they 're on holiday , there 's nothing they enjoy more , than snooping around in other people 's gardens . |
| 28 | It was only on the second and third day after the tragedy that the family slowly began to realise how many other people had been sitting around in shocked disbelief at the news . |
| 29 | So then Berndt and the old witch will know I 'm as smart as they do n't want me to be , AND that I 've been poking around in high-security files . |
| 30 | We got charge accounts at Bloomingdales and stores like that , so we were always dressed fabulously and we were always sitting around in fabulous restaurants , charging for fabulous meals with all manner of people , which was all Tony 's plan to make it look like the most successful rock and roll company going . |