Example sentences of "[pers pn] around [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think the boys are too keen to have you around at the moment , and I ca n't say I blame them . |
| 2 | ‘ Lot of them around at the moment . ’ |
| 3 | The beauty of it is that you can easily move them around on the wood . |
| 4 | Their working lives ( up to about fifteen hours ) can be maximised if you handle them with care , so avoid subjecting them to mechanical shocks when in use ; switch off and allow them to cool before moving them around on the set . |
| 5 | He flails them around in the air to dry them . |
| 6 | The ‘ Jowters ’ , too , would purchase some to sell them around in the country districts . |
| 7 | Fearful of the obvious dangers of traffic and molestation , parents have reacted by forbidding street play to younger offspring and by chauffeuring them around in the family car , itself more widely available . |
| 8 | Use a couple of small ones as worry beads , jiggling them around in the palm of your hand . |
| 9 | As they were knocking them down , Corman was following me around with the camera directing my speaking parts . |
| 10 | I asked if people like Shitwell , as we called him among other things , would shove me around after the revolution ; whether there 'd be theatre directors at all or whether we 'd all get a turn at telling the others where to stand and what to wear . |
| 11 | I picked up my fags and the bag of grass from near the campfire and motioned her around to the driver 's door . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've seen him around with the Padre too . |
| 13 | I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’ |
| 14 | His young rider , ‘ Wendy ’ , saddled him up , and started to trot him around in the practice ring with a number of other horses . |
| 15 | The uncharacteristic profanity brought him around in the chair . |
| 16 | He put the finger into his mouth , sucked at it and then waved it around in the air . |
| 17 | Or he could have flown it around in the wastes of ice where Shackleton lost the Endurance . |
| 18 | They are more likely to " attack " it if you move it around in the water . |