Example sentences of "[vb past] around [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother and daughter were glad of each other 's company then , while the electric storm boomed and crashed around them in the black night , as if aiming for this one exposed place . |
| 2 | The thing 's entrails writhed around him like the tentacles of a daemonic octopus . |
| 3 | The wall at his back flowed around him with the softness of feathers . |
| 4 | Little flecks of gold whirled around him in the air , like motes in a sunbeam . |
| 5 | Her hands fell idle in her lap and she stared around her at the bits of leather on the floor , at the row of wooden lasts along her bench , at the boots that needed new soles and heels and , with a sigh of despair , she dropped her knife and rose to her feet . |
| 6 | ‘ And then I went to Los Angeles , and I spent Thanksgiving on Malibu Beach , and there was a picture window — he stared around him at the shoebox room and rejected it — ‘ let's not exaggerate , but it would stretch from here to the lift . |
| 7 | He looked around him at the other producers and researchers . |
| 8 | Only now he was smiling as he looked around him at the chaos . |
| 9 | He braced his hand on the staircase rail at his left and looked around him into the shadows . |
| 10 | Morse looked around him in the front living room , slightly puzzled to find the carpet , the decoration , the furniture , all that little bit on the shabby side , with only the curtains looking bright and new , and ( in Morse 's opinion ) classy and tasteful . |
| 11 | Then she looked around her at the other smiling faces , and remembered why the policemen were there . |
| 12 | Kate looked around her at the busy incident room . |
| 13 | But to me , who had grown up without knowing want , the prosperity which accrued around them through the fifties and early sixties was of little account . |
| 14 | Passionate with indignation at the poverty and injustices which he daily met around him in the industrial north of Bradford , he sought , and was able to gain from , J.P.M. 's National Council of Labour Colleges , that knowledge which served him so well throughout his short working life , as a weapon with which to fight and change the capitalist system which tolerated and perpetuated such inhumane living conditions . |
| 15 | He gazed around him at the late afternoon sky . |
| 16 | They stood around her in the stuffy room , aghast . |