Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] around [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can imagine : old Crumwallis going around with the expression of a Soviet agronomist at harvest time . |
| 2 | Thou Shalt Not Spy on thy Mother 's Old Schoolfriends Parading around in the Nude . |
| 3 | A dreamy , psychedelic feel permeates throughout , which pulls this off-the-wall concept together and makes it stand out as one of the most sensuous British house tracks around at the moment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Discarded sodden matches and joint stubs jostle around in the pan and urine seeps into the sole of my shoe . |
| 6 | Now all the pretty things sat around in the present , and all they did was make her regret the past . |
| 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 | There 's at least two other poor sods trudging around in the wet when they could be clocking off and going home . |
| 9 | It was revolting to see these half-starved creatures snuffling around behind the houses or along the river-bank in search of excrement . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In short , the basic instinct which seemed to tell many people that they needed a good ‘ clean out ’ , and that nasty things could happen while waste matter lingered around in the body , seems to have been largely correct . |
| 12 | Small fish swing around in the currents , head-butting molluscs , to get at food . |
| 13 | There are some cracking discount deals around at the moment as lenders attempt to drum up new business , but watch out as the headline interest rate does n't always tell the whole story . |
| 14 | Mike shrugged easily , but his right hand crept around to the rear pocket of his overall , where he kept the big Stilson spanner . |
| 15 | I make a determined effort to rummage around in the jumble of our years together for some of the intensity of feeling I had for her . |
| 16 | They stopped at the balustraded terrace overlooking the small lake , and leaned over ; below , enormous golden fish lay around in the green water . |
| 17 | The young men mill around in the wasteground , their fury and their hormones surging . |
| 18 | I never see fewer than six or seven young men sitting around in the kitchen when I go in there , I 've never worked out who 's a brother or a cousin or what . |
| 19 | Other men bustled around on the wide dock area , busying themselves . |
| 20 | It was not a fun place any more and doors were already slamming shut to the hundreds of young hopefuls hanging around outside the studio gates about the time when Nicholson began his search for work . |
| 21 | So when all these changes were going , going on with the , the machinery , the , the bonus system etcetera etcetera you , you think there were other facilities arose around about the same time which made the work environment still more er still better if you like ? |
| 22 | Beyond the Sapphire Gate lies a huge lagoon ringed around with the shining towers of Lothern . |
| 23 | Among the aspirant politicians milling around in the lobby are fourteen people from the world of business , a handful of barristers , a couple of teachers , two farmers , two academics , a journalist or two , a couple of housewives and a taxi-driver . |