Example sentences of "[vb infin] around [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tackling a black run in a blizzard was a worry , but when you only have a long weekend you ca n't hang around for the sun to shine . |
| 2 | Speed and mcalllister would hang around outside the Cov penalty area and snatch onto anything the Cov tried to clear . |
| 3 | Realizing I could n't hang around on the dole forever waiting for the Tate Gallery to offer me an exhibition , and also that my boyfriend , also on the dole , was not likely to be able to support me , I decided to go for further training . |
| 4 | Rolling bream are not frightened bream , nor do they hang around in the swim if they 've been spooked by an escaping fish . |
| 5 | I mean , either you 've got ta hang around in the morning , or he 's got ta hang around at night . |
| 6 | John likes to keep the horses separate so that they do n't kick each other , but Hopscotch often jumps into Milton 's paddock to keep him company ; and sometimes if the weather is bad , one of the children 's ponies is turned out with him , otherwise Milton , who is a bit of a softy , will hang around by the gate in the hope that someone will take pity on him and take him back to his warm stable . |
| 7 | The strange horse will hover around on the outskirts of the herd until it is eventually accepted . |
| 8 | What they want out of a gang fight is a nice big bruise … that they can show around during the week . ’ |
| 9 | He played with a rubber washer that came drifting by , trying to make it spin around in the air in front of his nose . |
| 10 | I did n't stick around for the session . |
| 11 | They 'd haunt the alleys behind bakeries , they 'd help themselves from uncollected deliveries , they 'd stick around on the embankment for midnight handouts from the Salvation Army and the Krishna Temple . |
| 12 | ‘ Right , young lady , there are a few things you need to know about how I run this unit , and the first is that my nurses do n't loll around in the corridors indulging in idle chatter with strange men ! ’ |
| 13 | A composer is haunted by certain themes , subjects or moods , and he must look around for the stories or dramatic vehicles he needs to bring these themes to life as musical theatre . |
| 14 | ‘ There was a time when we could look around at the Commonwealth , the Empire , other countries and we would see very soft markets for British exports . |
| 15 | Do you build a picture in your head before you play anything or do you just jam around over the backing track and wait for something good to happen ? |
| 16 | And it certainly does the heart and lungs and it certainly has erm that feeling that you can wriggle and move around in the water , so it certainly gives you this feeling of agility as well . |
| 17 | This ‘ mobility gap ’ separates the occupied ‘ delocalised ’ states that contain the mobile electrons ( and are so-called precisely because they can move around in the semiconductor ) from vacant delocalised states in higher Landau levels . |
| 18 | You do not call out , you do not lay around on the floor . |
| 19 | But , you can mess around with the perception of time . |
| 20 | Did you both mess around at the end ? ’ 'Well , it 's really very complicated . |
| 21 | Anyone who once thought a 73B bus was a giant blue salamander following him down Baker Street is living proof that you should n't mess around in the medicine chest . |
| 22 | She 's a clumsy clogs that 's why I wo n't let her walk around with the baby if she wants to cuddle her I tell her to sit down and I tell her not to move well she 's always tripping over her feet . |
| 23 | Diane was just thinking that she 'd go around to the back and see how the Venetz sisters were getting along with the buffet , when somebody moved in and stood beside her ; Pete McCarthy , wearing a more-or-less new jacket and a pleasant smile , his tie already undone . |
| 24 | At break I was on duty in the corridor telling people to get out and go around to the canteen not through the school . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll go around by the highway . |
| 26 | And as soon as they 'd finished questioning the Tomorrowman 's barman about the beer mat heist , they 'd get around to the rest . |
| 27 | Anyway it would be interesting to learn just at what point he would get around to the subject of Rob . |
| 28 | One could play around with the word ad nauseam ; then , the next thing that we would be arguing about is the place of the potato in English folklore . |
| 29 | But this historic drift towards naturalist verisimilitude is constantly undermined — in the eighties generation of crime series , in daytime and prime-time soap , and in series like Moonlighting ( 1985–8 ) , thirtysomething ( 1987- ) , or , most notoriously , Twin Peaks ( 1990–1 ) — by a growing ‘ classical ’ inclination to ‘ play around with the conventions ’ through dream sequence , fantasy and self-reflexiveness . |
| 30 | The usefulness of having transaction processing applications down on the workstation , the company says , is to bring for example sales order processing information closer to the salesperson , who can play around with the data in a windows-based environment , oblivious to the complex processing going on behind the scenes . |