Example sentences of "[v-ing] around [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite apart from the blunder there was one moment near the end of the game when he was walking around on the stage of Sadler 's Wells , unaware for a few minutes that it was his move . |
| 2 | I have a feeling now , as if I 'm walking around with a sign on my back saying ‘ Kick me ’ , or ‘ I 'm a prat ’ , the sort of horrible joke kids play on each other , because I feel as though that 's exactly how people treat me . |
| 3 | walking around with a chip on his shoulder . |
| 4 | I was walking around with a camera and binoculars right on top of their nuclear silos . |
| 5 | Now if he did n't shave his hair off and he was walking around with a rim round the side of his head |
| 6 | If you practised walking around with the model in the hover , you should have got the hang of this already . |
| 7 | They moved into a flat in Bellevue Crescent , had a dog ( called ‘ Badger ’ , like the family dog in the book ) and wore moth eaten fur coats , walking around with the dog on a piece of string , rolling their own cigarettes ( a habit which has stuck ) and spending hours in the pub drinking scrumpy . |
| 8 | He mumbled that he was still in a state of shock and had been walking around in a dream all day . |
| 9 | ‘ The boyfriend was walking around in a daze . |
| 10 | Wear loose fitting clothing to protect your shoulders , arms and legs when you 're walking around in the sun . |
| 11 | ‘ In marvellous form — leaping around like a boy of twenty . |
| 12 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 13 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 14 | There are a few non-Leeds supporters lurking around on the list I think . |
| 15 | We now understand the day before another young boy af about nine saw a amn dressed exactly the same some distance away in the Sparcells estate so we can only assume that this man is lurking around in the area . |
| 16 | The cocked hat brings to mind the hapless Governor of the Falkland Islands , Rex Hunt , driving around in a London taxi until the Argentines came to expel him . |
| 17 | Driving around in a Rolls . |
| 18 | I 'm the one who deserves a new one I 've been driving around in a van for three years ! |
| 19 | A Chambers colleague remarked on seeing it that it must be like driving around in a Smartie . |
| 20 | So I was laid out in the back of the van on the bed and he 's driving down this field to put the tent , because it had little er bits you know where it 's marked out for you to camp , and I 'm driving around in the back saying , yes you 've , you 've just missed the fence there and you know . |
| 21 | KNOCKING AROUND for a while now . |
| 22 | I 'm just groping around like the rest . |
| 23 | ‘ I can hardly see , but something is thrashing around by the car . |
| 24 | But they 're at their best during songs like ‘ Stomach Worm ’ , where a cute , simplistic beat pop tune ascends slowly into noisy chaos , thrashing around in an acid bath and trying to keep from being submerged . |
| 25 | The Gulf War , like a knife , cut the string , and the beads are dropping and bouncing around on the ground . |
| 26 | It is an awful spectacle to see a ride galloping through the finish with reins flapping , bouncing around on the horse 's back . |
| 27 | Bouncing around on the end of an elastic rope may not be everyone 's idea of fun , but for the 24-year-old from Staindrop , County Durham , it 's a fascination that has turned into a living . |
| 28 | ‘ He might turn out to be set of sub-atomic particles bouncing around in a box in intelligent wave formations , ’ the Doctor fumed . |
| 29 | ‘ And now it is gone , all gone … the communists have thrown in the sponge and left us bouncing around in the ring looking for an opponent . |
| 30 | ‘ A case for galoshes , ’ remarked the Substitute , tossing a cigar end out of the jeep and looking around at the steam rising slowly from the wet earth . |