Example sentences of "around [prep] the darkness " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something was moving around in the darkness . |
| 2 | In the middle of the desert miles behind enemy lines , the columns of jeeps drove around in the darkness concentrating on holding formation . |
| 3 | Was that the echo of my whisper wafting around in the darkness ? |
| 4 | Tom put the blacks up in the front room , crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps . |
| 5 | ‘ We were blundering around in the darkness ! ’ said Gurder . |
| 6 | Sure , the ambiguous title allows 30 seconds of salacious conjecture , but that double-bluff ‘ Ha ha ha ha ha ha ’ non-chorus scores a direct miss , and the sound of five men bashing around in the darkness in search of a tune merely drains you of the will to live . ’ |
| 7 | So by exploiting touch , taste and smell , by developing special techniques of echo-location and electrical sensitivity , many animals find their way around in the darkness with great precision . |
| 8 | ‘ Buryin' 'em at sea , ’ Walter persists , and he lifts the boathook and starts to stir around in the darkness beyond the terrace 's supporting pillars . |
| 9 | And walks around in the darkness , he does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded him . |
| 10 | Forgotten that she had thought she had seen someone moving around in the darkness . |
| 11 | We groped around in the darkness , found a fat tallow candle and I lit it with my tinder . |