Example sentences of "[vb past] around in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ For five minutes the two engineers moved around in the steam and smoke , and looked at the big engines . |
| 2 | Tom put the blacks up in the front room , crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps . |
| 3 | He opened the little back gate and peered around in the dark for the shelter . |
| 4 | They simply wandered around in the dark , placing their bombs on the parked aircraft until they ran out of them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Panic slammed around in the cavity of her body . |
| 7 | Other research suggested they might become concentrated , churned around in the waves and eventually deposited back along the beaches and banks of local estuaries . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the middle of the desert miles behind enemy lines , the columns of jeeps drove around in the darkness concentrating on holding formation . |
| 11 | Adjusting the holes so that he could see properly , he turned around in the road and drove back towards her . |
| 12 | He just swivelled around in the middle , while she danced . |
| 13 | In the event , Hilary rummaged around in the gym and found a cricket bat and ball . |
| 14 | I slipped away before the encores and hung around in the courtyard outside the Sheldonian until the Kraemers emerged . |
| 15 | Sometimes , when he was writing , she hung around in the conservatory to keep him company . |
| 16 | So I hung around in the sun a couple of hours and when I got to the station there 's a car in the car-park with the old guy in the back , and he has friends . ’ |
| 17 | Course I hung around in the park instead of going to clarinet lessons . |
| 18 | When you went to pack that first night , I hung around in the hall trying to figure out my best move . |
| 19 | Thank God her father had survived , but for how many more years could he go on , with only Rachel to inherit while Jamie hung around in the background , desperate to take the firm , simply to settle a childhood score ? |
| 20 | Ari and Nathan hung around in the doorway until they looked up , feeling they needed permission to enter . |
| 21 | Thus a creature that hunts by daylight would waste its energy if it rushed around in the night when its prey was hiding in a burrow and , anyway , it would be poorly equipped for hunting then . |
| 22 | When she was alone on the terrace , she found herself staring fixedly at a cockroach as it scuttled around in the heat , then got up and hammered it to death with her shoe . |
| 23 | ‘ For more than four hours Tally and I lounged around in the carry-out , talking , drinking coffee , watching people come and go , watching other hangers-on as they bantered with the waitresses , horsed around among themselves , or danced to the juke-box . |
| 24 | Our digital video strategy meandered around in the desert for 40 years . |
| 25 | When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village . |
| 26 | Lucy spent most of the next couple of hours in the ground-floor utility room just behind the room where she 'd slept , sitting on the tiles against the wall and reading back numbers of magazines while her washing tumbled around in the Zanussi . |
| 27 | Mildred felt around in the bumping , musty darkness and discovered a whistle , a notebook with a rubber band round it , and a voluminous handkerchief . |
| 28 | He went over to a flowerbed and felt around in the mud . |
| 29 | When she dived , she felt around in the tussock of tough brown japweed for the knubbly cigua whelks underneath , and prised some off the coral just below the waterline . |
| 30 | She strutted around in the snow as if it belonged to her . |