Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] around in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dragons flying around in the sky , breathing flames … ’ |
| 2 | There 's at least two other poor sods trudging around in the wet when they could be clocking off and going home . |
| 3 | There was now a great congestion of horsemen milling around in the area between town and castle . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I saw you guys splashing around in the surf . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As she walked down the crazy-pavement paths to the lily pond , Constance was struck by the blackbirds hopping around in the sun . |
| 9 | Thou Shalt Not Spy on thy Mother 's Old Schoolfriends Parading around in the Nude . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |