Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] around on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The board spins around on the tail with some assistance from the rig . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In reality it 's just verglas with fist sized lumps of ice dotted around on the wall . |
| 5 | 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 . " |
| 6 | Lucker gropes around on the floor . |
| 7 | Spend all your life hanging around on the edge of the scrum and it comes as a bit of a shock to get a pair of fingers up your nostrils . |
| 8 | The knights of the sky zoom around on the back of the ostrich which flaps its wings whenever you tap your ‘ flap ’ key the more you tap the higher he goes . |
| 9 | As Sherry writhed around on the canvas , Eubank was awarded a technical decision after the backward butt which later brought a £10,000 Boxing Board of Control fine . |
| 10 | I think they thought they would find the treasure lying around on the beach ! |
| 11 | His mother trundled around on the edges of his thoughts and he tried to push her away . |
| 12 | For the production crew , filming the six-part series meant spending much of the time crawling around on the floor . |
| 13 | This sparrow-sized bird is dull brown and grey in colour , and since it spends much of its time scurrying around on the ground , it often looks more like a mouse than a bird . |