Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] around [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ John saw Ivor Horfitz 's son Jason hanging around outside the weighing-room at Newmarket yesterday and had a word with him . ’ |
| 2 | There are a few non-Leeds supporters lurking around on the list I think . |
| 3 | I 'm sneaking a moment on deck before breakfast , feeling limp and watching a heron gliding around like a poker with a crick in its neck , when there 's a North country whisper behind me . |
| 4 | ‘ Though I 've got to tell you there 's some gossip going around about the cousin you 've got staying . ’ |
| 5 | Well , seem funny a boxer going around with a tail wo n't it ? |
| 6 | Dragons flying around in the sky , breathing flames … ’ |
| 7 | If that was n't enough , what in heaven 's name is that lethal figure running around in the hold , like some latter-day Frankenstein 's monster ? ’ |
| 8 | a mate of mine actually worked out in Russia and he said you know , piece of discussions about when , where the Russian 's sort of appear first and this sort of he said he said erm , this , he said that , that kids running around on the streets of Moscow is actually given a working permit and so he could actual work there and sort of like er |
| 9 | She gingerly fingers her purple marbled temple , blood swilling around under the skin . |
| 10 | You can imagine : old Crumwallis going around with the expression of a Soviet agronomist at harvest time . |
| 11 | And then comes another machine ( or the previous one with a new attachment ) which sucks up all the nuts and any other loose debris lying around on the ground . |
| 12 | Mice are not clockwork mice running around on a course which is the predictable inevitable consequence of some internal machinery . |
| 13 | There ought to be enough intelligence sloshing around in the world for humans to have some too . |
| 14 | Outside the window are a few sticks lying around on the grass . |
| 15 | The story going around at the time was that he had ticked off the Lebanese bureau staff to the point where they sold him to Hezbollah for a bit of peace and quiet ! |
| 16 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 17 | She tried to see if he were concealed among the group hanging around near the circolo , but without lifting her eyes to scan them like a strumpet . |
| 18 | Having seen their fish swimming around in a tank or pond only minutes before they eat it , the Cantonese know how fresh it is . |
| 19 | Most players have a battered specimen lying around in a cupboard somewhere ; a few sensible types even use one as their main instrument , and as a result will probably retain their hearing well into the next century . |
| 20 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 21 | Henceforth the old spectacle of brokers milling around on the Stock Exchange floor was replaced by silent , almost invisible , computerized networks for dealers , reflecting the new internationalism of the stock market . |
| 22 | There 's at least two other poor sods trudging around in the wet when they could be clocking off and going home . |
| 23 | There was now a great congestion of horsemen milling around in the area between town and castle . |
| 24 | Sooner or later you will find one or more adult insects crawling around inside the cage . |
| 25 | Hughes became the puzzled spectator of his own life , examining his own beleaguered existence like a tourist poking around in the ruins . |
| 26 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 27 | When I tried this sort of stuff before , I had one flight in a sort of plywood packing-case painted the colour of the blue stuff they used to paint on your balls when you got crabs and spent the rest of the day hanging around with a pack of strangle-voiced bores in bobble hats . |
| 28 | We watch Lucker rooting around in the car . |
| 29 | On a Trent Bridge wicket that saw the ball moving around off the seam and in conditions that helped the swing bowlers , Botham won the toss and batted . |
| 30 | If you see the caterpillars crawling around on the bottom of the cage , you will know it is time to put some soil there . |