Example sentences of "[vb pp] around [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never had she limped around like a milk-soaked rabbit , quiet and withdrawn . |
| 2 | Therefore , the notion of being whirled around in a low-level steep bank , at maximum take-off weight , would surely have been viewed with scepticism by pilots and aircrew . |
| 3 | Around the catafalque are some of his most powerful magical items , which lie scattered around in a strange quasi-circular pattern as if they were being drawn to the catafalque in a spiralling motion and suddenly stopped . |
| 4 | But the ruler who likes to be driven around in a sinister black Range Rover with dark tinted windows casts a long shadow of fear . |
| 5 | In the heat of a sultry evening , Britain had the fitness and the heart to outlast the clever Koreans and it was Sixsmith who got the winner , poaching in the area after the ball had pinballed around from a short corner . |
| 6 | This 77,000-acre estate has been described as ‘ the jewel of the Cairngorms ’ , but it has been passed around like a shop-soiled Rolls Royce . |
| 7 | They say he should have waited around like a good boy , taken a few duff , even Duff fights , and he would have been rewarded in due course by boxing 's power brokers . |
| 8 | ‘ Look , I 've been bounced around like a rubber ball between you people for a couple of months now . |
| 9 | As Patrick Forbes put it in Champagne , ‘ The news of his appointment was received with a certain relief by most people , for , if you were going to be shoved around , it was better to be shoved around by a wine-maker than by some beer-drinking Nazi lout . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He was shoved around by a few other prisoners , ’ said a guard at the Bois d'Arcy prison , outside Paris . |