Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] around [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mice are not clockwork mice running around on a course which is the predictable inevitable consequence of some internal machinery . |
| 2 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 3 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 4 | There are locals wandering around in a state of shock you know . |
| 5 | ‘ He might turn out to be set of sub-atomic particles bouncing around in a box in intelligent wave formations , ’ the Doctor fumed . |
| 6 | And you probably ai n't gon na wan na leave your friends standing around on a football field . |