Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] around [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Though I 've got to tell you there 's some gossip going around about the cousin you 've got staying . ’ |
| 2 | After the broadcast finished Mary and I thanked Joelle for coming on the programme and being a target for all the anti-French feeling flying around at the time . |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | The evening was misty and moist , with tendrils of thicker fog swirling around in the night air . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Any rock lying around on the frozen continent stands a good chance of being a meteorite as — the occasional ice-piercing mountain aside — there is nowhere else to come from but the heavens . |
| 7 | There ought to be enough intelligence sloshing around in the world for humans to have some too . |