Example sentences of "[v-ing] around [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Not from the beach — I think the salt there would probably kill hookworm — but in the back streets of the town , where the sewage system was n't what it might have been , and also walking around on the wooden deck of an old schooner sailing to Aldabra . |
2 | my dad like in South Africa my dad was telling me , when they went out at night , yeah , like if they were going to a restaurant he 'd take a kni he 'd take his gun with him and keep , it 's fucking odd man like my dad walking around with a nine millimetre strapped to his |
3 | Ian said he spent the whole day walking around with a daft grin on his face . |
4 | I was just walking around with a huge grin on my face . |
5 | But there are also thousands of people walking around in a semi-drugged state day after day because they are in the habit of taking tablets , whether prescribed or bought over the counter . |
6 | ‘ Especially with you tearing around like the wronged boyfriend in the last reel of Some Came Running , waving your wretched gun . |
7 | Normally to be seen driving around in a funereal Daimler — dwarfing the island 's other cars ( including the BMW of Premier Sir John Swan ) — the Governor also dons his uniform and takes to the streets in a horse-drawn landau several times a year . |
8 | One or two of the old films are now on CD video because they are important documents of certain artists , but the way we are filming and editing the films I am now making is completely different We have learnt a very great deal in these years and so we forget about the older films just as you would n't dream of driving around in a thirty-year-old car . |
9 | ‘ It must have cost an awful lot , all this , ’ she murmured , looking around across the large expanse of land , the huge , dominating barn . |
10 | Looking around at the suffocating power of the Roman Catholic Church and the less humane churches of Protestantism , he found that he had nowhere else to go ; they had no answers for this situation either . |
11 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
12 | ‘ Poor things , ’ I thought , looking around at the other passengers and feeling superior . |
13 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
14 | Looking around for a possible light , we noticed an elderly couple smoking at a nearby tables . |
15 | This year the charity to benefit will be the Newborn Appeal , although the organising Speke 10k Committee are still looking around for a main sponsor for the event . |
16 | Someone must have done some extensive informing , because MacLane picked Susan and me out of the crowd without even the pretence of looking around for the usual suspects . |
17 | Now that circumstances have conspired to make an immediate share issue an unattractive option , Dell Computer Corp is looking around for the best alternative to raise cash to finance its soaraway growth . |
18 | He stood , arms akimbo , looking around in the musty gloom . |
19 | Things were n't going well for the American studios , either at home or in the UK , and they became increasingly desperate , hunting around for the winning formula some had lost and others never found . |
20 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
21 | This is analogous to wandering around in a misty marsh in a river valley surrounded by invisible summits . |
22 | ‘ Other members of the herd are swimming around in the blood-red sea as this killing continues . |
23 | Rushing around at the last minute trying to obtain foreign currency and travellers cheques is not the best preparation for a business trip abroad . |
24 | Diana seemed distressed , rushing around in a distracted way — oblivious , it seemed to me , of the work we had all put in for her brother 's wedding . |
25 | Great shards of glass were still lying around as a net curtain flapped inside the shattered frame of the blue front door of number 52 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | AFTER the débâcle with Norman and Henrietta , Minton began dashing around like a hunted person . |
28 | Novell Inc Japan , which will be Univel Inc 's distributor there , is n't waiting around for the Japanese version of UnixWare to start its assault on the market . |
29 | ‘ Perhaps there is n't all that much fun in going around with a married bloke , after all ? ’ |
30 | sudden change in behaviour or lifestyles , for example going around with a new set of friends |