Example sentences of "he [verb] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turns around and listens . |
| 2 | He turns around to smile bravely . |
| 3 | So that the flying part never got mentioned at all , you know , whether he flies around in single engined planes . |
| 4 | As he cruised around to land the oil temperature resumed a normal reading . |
| 5 | He skidded around , dodged easily around a giant hand as it tried to grab him , and hared along the table . |
| 6 | An enchanting picture book by Ian Beck , The Teddy Robber , £6.95 is a wonderfully funny story of a giant who 's lost his teddy bear so he goes around stealing other teddies from wherever he can . |
| 7 | I suppose he goes around measuring skulls and that kind of thing . ’ |
| 8 | He goes around with another Taig , a bad wee feller who runs with terrorists , called Mallachy O'Rourke . |
| 9 | He 's turned his cab into a mobile picture gallery , and has even been known to dash off the odd sketch of the people he drives around . |
| 10 | Staying seated while he prowls around makes me uneasy , so I stand up and join him at the window . |
| 11 | As a result , he consistently neglected the search for sponsorship and , when in desperation he got around to looking for it , it was too late . |
| 12 | He flung around from them and walked to the end of the room . |
| 13 | As he prodded around all the dreamy romantic feelings she experienced when he kissed her disappeared and all she could think of was when would he stop , and could n't he please just hold her again , very close , with the firm bulge of his body against her , far more erotic through several layers of clothes than his scratching , poking finger . |
| 14 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 15 | Next , he looks around for credit terms paying a one-fifth deposit of £20 , and the rest in 24 monthly instalments . |
| 16 | He looks around and studies the confident performances . |
| 17 | He and Fairfax are laughing , but I notice that he looks around constantly , like a city dweller guiding country cousins across Oxford Street , and his heavy spear is ready . |
| 18 | ( He looks around , laughs embarrassedly , expiating himself . ) |
| 19 | He looks around for Mark . |
| 20 | He looks around and stops smiling . |
| 21 | You remember Peter when he was , er , totally different context , but the lesson is the same , when he was when Jesus called him to walk on the water and he starts walking , and then , he looks around and for what e , for whatever reason he starts sinking , the moment he calls out help Jesus reaches out and lifts him back him rescues him . |
| 22 | No he 's , he 's , he 's just out to impress people , I mean he looks around to see if you 're watching him and he 'll erm no , yeah he 's acting the whole time , I do n't really , I do n't know if he knows who he is you know ? |
| 23 | Is he lurking around ? |
| 24 | There is an ancient monument at Karnak in Egypt which carries the most detailed and probably most extensive example of the ‘ unkindest cut of all ’ , when King Menephta took awful revenge on a Libyan army he defeated around 1300 BC . |
| 25 | He swam around in the cold plunge for five minutes to close his pores , then towelled himself vigorously before jumping on the scales in the rest room . |
| 26 | Using a voltmeter , one probe in the tank and another to earth , he found around 60V AC present in his tank . |
| 27 | He lies around in jeans strumming his guitar . ’ |
| 28 | He moved around to the back of the house , and then ducked in to the laneway that ran behind it . |
| 29 | Finally , he moved around to face her . |
| 30 | He moved around a lot , but his heart lay in Aix-en-Provence . |