Example sentences of "and [verb] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general purpose of exploratory statistics , as the name suggests , is to help investigators to take a good look at patterns in data and to search around for ideas about the form these patterns take . |
| 2 | There are some who argue that sovereignty or ultimate authority can be sliced up and shared around . |
| 3 | Julie Murchison stood on the platform of Berkeley railway station and gazed around . |
| 4 | His heart thumping with anticipation , he climbed to the top and gazed around . |
| 5 | Corbett looked away and gazed around ; the room had grown larger ; he turned and saw Thomas smiling at him as if through a haze . |
| 6 | Masklin stood up and gazed around . |
| 7 | She waited there in the dark , quiet as could be , and gazed around . |
| 8 | I knelt and gazed around in astonishment . |
| 9 | I rehearsed this over and over again , but when I stopped — and the story was usually the same — I relaxed and limped around , opening each locker several times in confusion . |
| 10 | You 'll take a song and trace its riffs back and sit around with your grandchildren playing the originals . |
| 11 | You 'll take a song and trace its riffs back and sit around with your grandchildren playing the originals . |
| 12 | I 've given out three hundred invites and sit around with |
| 13 | I hate it when we sit around and sit around . |
| 14 | Holly stood beside a poorly dug hole and he looked down at a T-shaped junction of pipes and saw that the screw-fastened aperture that gave access to the pipe join and its subsidiary were swathed in doth and knotted around in plastic sheeting . |
| 15 | Who the heck is doing the hiring and firing around here , anyway ? ’ |
| 16 | As for the Lost Boys , they were cast from a politically correct mix of ethnic groups and blimp shapes , and zipped around in funky MTV gear and Mohican hair-dos , spouting street jargon . |
| 17 | For me , this system meant the weeding out of subjects which bored me , and the opportunity to concentrate and read around those which really interested me . |
| 18 | Oil gushed out and swirled around his feet . |
| 19 | He wiggled a few steps and swirled around . |
| 20 | So , in the following exercises try and throw all these preconceived ideas away , just as the impetuous child would go ahead and fool around in his own way . |
| 21 | Then apply the brush again on the brow bone over the eyebrow to hairline and bring around to join the blusher on cheeks . |
| 22 | If war in Europe seems likely , trucks carrying four missiles each will emerge from their bunkers and disperse around southern Britain to protect them from attack . |
| 23 | Lio ! rt 's dragon was already airborne and circling around towards them . |
| 24 | The remark was taken up and passed around , with variations . |
| 25 | Chillims were lit and passed around . |
| 26 | Chillims of tobacco were lit and passed around . |
| 27 | While we were waiting for the chillim to be filled and passed around , Kalchu pointed out a conical heap of stones at the base of a great cedar tree near the edge of the glade . |
| 28 | Apart from looking into market deals and reports of cheques being repeatedly endorsed and passed around as if they were like cash , Inland Revenue investigators have been checking if farmers have undedeclared Government grant payments . |
| 29 | You know , one of the Fizz Kids liquored up and pissing around . ’ |
| 30 | And a one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , ’ and with that he danced around the room , his shoes tapping rhythmically on the floor springing and twirling around and , as he tapped and stamped , he yelled out , ‘ Shuffle hop , Cramp roll , Buffalo . ’ |