Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] around [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even if you lose two and a half stone , you 're still not gon na look like , you know , some skinny model because you 're still gon na be about six foot wide with your hips and your shoulders , but I mean , you 're just gon na have gangly longer legs and walk around like this . |
| 2 | Willie shaded his eyes and looked around for him . |
| 3 | Crossly , he came out of the bushes and searched around for a dock leaf . |
| 4 | And I could see I was going to get warmer still because the bullock was beginning to enjoy the game , kicking up his heels and frisking around after each attempt . |
| 5 | I 've given out three hundred invites and sit around with |
| 6 | Where they used to rely on incessant effects , now they are n't afraid to leave gaps and swoon around in a beautiful noise of their own making . |
| 7 | He retraced his footsteps and stayed around for a while , but it was too cold to linger long . |
| 8 | ‘ All that sitting behind desks and riding around in tube trains … it 's not good for you . |
| 9 | They left the woods and went around by the neighbouring fields — ‘ blind ’ country where the ditches and drains were all concealed in coarse , overgrown grass . |
| 10 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 11 | He screwed up the note into small pieces and looked around for others . |
| 12 | Ludmila Andrews ' Mad , Bad Mortal Beings is about the emotional turmoil of a black woman recovering from a relationship , and Sonali Fernando 's Shakti is a brief fable about a trash-collecting Asian woman who sees off a white yob with sort-of magic powers and struts around in funky transformed shoes . |
| 13 | John was like a new father , handing out cigars and strutting around like chief turkey in the yard . |
| 14 | I attended my father 's prep school where I was one of the worst-behaved pupils , constantly talking after lights-out and fooling around in class . |
| 15 | I slipped away before the encores and hung around in the courtyard outside the Sheldonian until the Kraemers emerged . |
| 16 | Compare brochures and shop around on price — many agents discount as much as £200-£300 on brochure prices . |
| 17 | The referee was also the Quartermaster in the school 's Combined Cadet Force , who paraded on Wednesday afternoons and ran around in the woods with Lee Enfield .303s practising ambushes in the rhododendrons . |
| 18 | There was a girl at work who said she loved the rain — she would dress up in a mac and goloshes and tramp around in the rain just for pleasure . |
| 19 | We do not have ’ joyriding ’ in Northern Ireland ; rather death , destruction and tragedy are the result of young folk indulging in the habit of taking other people 's vehicles and running around in them for all sorts of purposes . |
| 20 | ‘ At Elland Road I was expected to go and win the ball and that was about all they liked ! ! — get the ball up to the big front men and look around for the knock downs ’ ( Batts obviously did nt look very hard cos he did nt find many ! ! ) |
| 21 | However , long before these disastrous developments , Vermuyden was wiping the mud of Hatfield off his boots and casting around for greener pastures . |
| 22 | An erratic Lebanese with a wife and family in Beirut and a Dutch mistress in Nicosia , he wore jeans and cowboy boots and drove around at high speed in a Chevy 4 × 4 with expired Texas licence plates . |
| 23 | If you live in a low-lying area where there are ponds and canals , there may be plenty of mosquitoes and gnats around in summer . |