Example sentences of "[vb past] around [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This passage reveals concern for the points of the compass when clipping was in progress as the shepherd moved around under the tree to avoid the rays of the sun . |
| 2 | He moved around to the back of the house , and then ducked in to the laneway that ran behind it . |
| 3 | ’ For five minutes the two engineers moved around in the steam and smoke , and looked at the big engines . |
| 4 | Tom put the blacks up in the front room , crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps . |
| 5 | He opened the little back gate and peered around in the dark for the shelter . |
| 6 | They simply wandered around in the dark , placing their bombs on the parked aircraft until they ran out of them . |
| 7 | The hands on the big wall clock jerked around with the enthusiasm of a convict doing forced labour , the offenders stared at their battered and scuffed shoes in awed silence with the exception of a drunk who had missed the dreaded word MINISTRY and who openly admired Frau Nordern 's figure but who , with the solidarity of the criminal underworld , was instantly hushed into silence by the other offenders . |
| 8 | It shuttled around on the picture . |
| 9 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 10 | The charge is that he allowed domestic inflation to get out of control and messed around with the exchange rate when he should have been applying the monetarist remedy . |
| 11 | He flailed around on the snow . |
| 12 | I had one end , the seamers swapped around at the other . |
| 13 | Roman glanced over his shoulder from his laconic position at the cabin entrance , watching as Caroline , clad in white Bermudas and canary-yellow shirt , darted around in the cockpit of the yacht , efficiently dealing with the paraphernalia of setting sail . |
| 14 | Panic slammed around in the cavity of her body . |
| 15 | It was the right time as she came around to the front of the house . |
| 16 | The more he considered all the aspects of the matter , the more Manville came around to the view that Turkey was the best possible choice of all . |
| 17 | But it was Woodruffe who came around from the cab . |
| 18 | Other research suggested they might become concentrated , churned around in the waves and eventually deposited back along the beaches and banks of local estuaries . |
| 19 | Sacco swarmed up the steering-wheel post and wrestled the keys out of the ignition while the rest of the boys poked around in the cab . |
| 20 | In short , the basic instinct which seemed to tell many people that they needed a good ‘ clean out ’ , and that nasty things could happen while waste matter lingered around in the body , seems to have been largely correct . |
| 21 | Forgetting his altered status here , he drove around to the stables and , as he had always done before , saw to his own horses before entering the house via the kitchen premises . |
| 22 | In the middle of the desert miles behind enemy lines , the columns of jeeps drove around in the darkness concentrating on holding formation . |
| 23 | The hot shine must have cut to black as he was soft-footing it up the stairs , because when he turned around on the half-landing and crouched behind the angle of the banister the only light in the hall was the inward spill from the porch , and that was getting less as the door slowly closed on its hydraulic arm . |
| 24 | The former were blindfolded , and turned around on the spot to scramble their sense of direction . |
| 25 | Hoping that nothing had gone wrong with the course of her friend 's romance , she turned around on the piano stool as she heard hard , firm footsteps walking along the terrace . |
| 26 | Adjusting the holes so that he could see properly , he turned around in the road and drove back towards her . |
| 27 | He just swivelled around in the middle , while she danced . |
| 28 | As Sherry writhed around on the canvas , Eubank was awarded a technical decision after the backward butt which later brought a £10,000 Boxing Board of Control fine . |
| 29 | And there are some people actually on the beach as well , which I think is important because we 've got a lot of empty area here , fairly featureless area , but it 's nice to have these two or three people er dotted around on the beach . |
| 30 | In reality it 's just verglas with fist sized lumps of ice dotted around on the wall . |