Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] around [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a few non-Leeds supporters lurking around on the list I think . |
| 2 | Dragons flying around in the sky , breathing flames … ’ |
| 3 | a mate of mine actually worked out in Russia and he said you know , piece of discussions about when , where the Russian 's sort of appear first and this sort of he said he said erm , this , he said that , that kids running around on the streets of Moscow is actually given a working permit and so he could actual work there and sort of like er |
| 4 | He watched Simon 's trainers padding around to the back door only inches from his face and he wanted to scream , to rid himself of the unbearable tension . |
| 5 | Mice are not clockwork mice running around on a course which is the predictable inevitable consequence of some internal machinery . |
| 6 | Outside the window are a few sticks lying around on the grass . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Henceforth the old spectacle of brokers milling around on the Stock Exchange floor was replaced by silent , almost invisible , computerized networks for dealers , reflecting the new internationalism of the stock market . |
| 9 | There 's at least two other poor sods trudging around in the wet when they could be clocking off and going home . |
| 10 | There was now a great congestion of horsemen milling around in the area between town and castle . |
| 11 | Sooner or later you will find one or more adult insects crawling around inside the cage . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If you see the caterpillars crawling around on the bottom of the cage , you will know it is time to put some soil there . |
| 14 | There a few items lying around on the battlements for the adventurers to find : old arrows and rusty arrowheads , a bucketful of congealed pitch , a bunch of rotten torches tied up with twine , a rotted length of rope and the like . |
| 15 | There are locals wandering around in a state of shock you know . |
| 16 | ‘ He might turn out to be set of sub-atomic particles bouncing around in a box in intelligent wave formations , ’ the Doctor fumed . |
| 17 | It was revolting to see these half-starved creatures snuffling around behind the houses or along the river-bank in search of excrement . |
| 18 | And you probably ai n't gon na wan na leave your friends standing around on a football field . |
| 19 | Mass , the most accomplished veteran of Sportscar racing , was just passing the pits entrance when the slight drizzle turned into a downpour : he had a torrid time out there on Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez , spending almost 3 minutes slithering around to the pits . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I saw you guys splashing around in the surf . |
| 22 | There was ‘ enough sentiment ’ , he admitted , ‘ enough fire … to lead people to put their lives and their families on the line for the cause ’ , but the cause was a mess ; too many different groups , no means of making political capital out of them , and ‘ guys running around in the hills … illiterate , ignorant campesinos ’ . |
| 23 | I never see fewer than six or seven young men sitting around in the kitchen when I go in there , I 've never worked out who 's a brother or a cousin or what . |
| 24 | As she walked down the crazy-pavement paths to the lily pond , Constance was struck by the blackbirds hopping around in the sun . |
| 25 | Thou Shalt Not Spy on thy Mother 's Old Schoolfriends Parading around in the Nude . |
| 26 | Through the open door he could see the computer personnel ; some with hands still over their ears , others looking around at the walls and ceiling . |
| 27 | The men and women lying around on the ground were roughly shaken awake . |
| 28 | It was not a fun place any more and doors were already slamming shut to the hundreds of young hopefuls hanging around outside the studio gates about the time when Nicholson began his search for work . |
| 29 | However , von Baer regarded the multitude of sperm cells swimming around in the semen as single-celled parasites , and he perpetuated this view by calling them ‘ spermatozoa ’ , i.e. sperm animals . |
| 30 | Among the aspirant politicians milling around in the lobby are fourteen people from the world of business , a handful of barristers , a couple of teachers , two farmers , two academics , a journalist or two , a couple of housewives and a taxi-driver . |