Example sentences of "around at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Gilbert deliberately hung around at closing time to give the three men a chance to go away . |
| 2 | Are the editorial staff sitting around at empty desks saying ‘ Tut ! |
| 3 | Grant sweeps around at full speed and heads for land . |
| 4 | ‘ County ’ men were transferred around at short intervals , while we were static in the city , never moving more than a mile or so between the three divisions to undertake real ‘ city work ’ . |
| 5 | Tod Friendly , stocky , emollient Tod Friendly , moves around at large in the city 's substructures , the shelters , the centres , the halfway houses , the flops . |
| 6 | So instead of automatically going to the timber yard and buying new timber , how about looking around at potential sources of second-hand timber and giving the poor old environment a helping hand ? |
| 7 | Penned in by the subliminal surrealism on the screens , knocked out of the way by the mobile cartoon tableaux that slice aggressively through the audience ( mini-stages dragged around at high speed ) , people do n't quite know where to look or go next . |
| 8 | If they recognise the boat as ‘ friendly ’ and if it is n't rushing around at high speed , they will allow you to get close enough to take photographs . |
| 9 | An erratic Lebanese with a wife and family in Beirut and a Dutch mistress in Nicosia , he wore jeans and cowboy boots and drove around at high speed in a Chevy 4 × 4 with expired Texas licence plates . |
| 10 | It is for these reasons that his approach seems the more fruitful of the two in understanding the situation in advanced capitalist societies during the last twenty or thirty years , when Adorno 's conception of artistic totality , mirror image of an increasingly global , oppressive industrial totality , presents a theoretical cul-de-sac ; when , by contrast , we are actually bombarded by an increasingly heterogeneous mix of musical methods and messages , often seemingly cut free from traditions and sources , shifted around at random ; when listeners do seem to some extent to have learned , gradually , new perceptual skills , through several decades of habituation , enabling more active comparison of styles , a greater variety of uses and a more ‘ ironic ’ relationship to the stream of musical products ; and when the main opportunities for critique and subversion lie not in head-on ‘ romantic ’ protest but in exploiting temporary spaces , in the cracks and at the margins , within the monolith itself . |
| 11 | Now , hitting upon the lucky number that opens the bank 's safe is the equivalent , in our analogy , of hurling scrap metal around at random and happening to assemble a Boeing 747 . |
| 12 | Gazzer looked about : ‘ Never any nurses around at visiting time . |