Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [v-ing] around [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ The first time your children tell you they 've heard the story , remember , I warned you , ’ He drained his mug , dropping it over his shoulder into the water slushing around in the galley : ‘ Nothing like a hurricane for washing dishes . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Gould was fascinated by its habit of collecting all the rubbish lying around in the shrubberies and borders , and then building a huge incubating mound in the middle of the lawn . |
| 6 | I think they thought they would find the treasure lying around on the beach ! |
| 7 | For the production crew , filming the six-part series meant spending much of the time crawling around on the floor . |
| 8 | 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 . " |
| 9 | Hughes became the puzzled spectator of his own life , examining his own beleaguered existence like a tourist poking around in the ruins . |
| 10 | I 've spent nearly a week playing around with the Korg A2 and I feel I have n't done more than scratch the surface . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ People witnessed the man running away , others reported a man hanging around in the area but no one admits seeing the assault happen . |
| 12 | Robert O'Mahoney 's King , a ‘ dynamotologist ’ — ‘ self-realisation , you know ? ’ — is the picture of a man floundering around in the deep end of life , who has forgotten not only how to swim , but even where he left his life jacket . |
| 13 | ‘ It was probably a fox moving around in the bushes , or perhaps even a badger . |
| 14 | The surface oceans are actually super-saturated with calcium carbonate so there 's a lot in solution , there 's more in solution than in theory is possible , in super-saturated condition and in addition there 's a lot floating around in the solid form in biological material . |
| 15 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 16 | They were spotted by a five-year-old playing around with the freeze-frame on his parent 's video . |
| 17 | I also found an envelope lying around in the bathroom the other day with a list of numbers on the back , and when I asked her about it , she took it silently out of my hand . |