Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] around [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ For five minutes the two engineers moved around in the steam and smoke , and looked at the big engines . |
| 2 | While all this went on , the parents sat around on the school 's battered garden furniture , the mothers watching each other warily , the fathers armoured in a remote mildness that Robert recognized from his own parent . |
| 3 | She remembered one of the ideas chucked around at the brainstorming session a week ago : a series on Eligible Males . |
| 4 | Now all the pretty things sat around in the present , and all they did was make her regret the past . |
| 5 | In the middle of the desert miles behind enemy lines , the columns of jeeps drove around in the darkness concentrating on holding formation . |
| 6 | Dorcas looked around at the hedge behind them . |
| 7 | A stack of empty bamboo Tuak tubes rattled around in the back . |
| 8 | Other men bustled around on the wide dock area , busying themselves . |
| 9 | Sacco swarmed up the steering-wheel post and wrestled the keys out of the ignition while the rest of the boys poked around in the cab . |
| 10 | I had one end , the seamers swapped around at the other . |
| 11 | 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 ? |