Example sentences of "[v-ing] around with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | walking around with a chip on his shoulder . |
| 3 | I was walking around with a camera and binoculars right on top of their nuclear silos . |
| 4 | Now if he did n't shave his hair off and he was walking around with a rim round the side of his head |
| 5 | If you practised walking around with the model in the hover , you should have got the hang of this already . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And they 're right , because the idea of wandering around with a radio-equipped , RISC-based , flat tablet , scribbling notes and then faxing them off Star Trek-style to headquarters , is so far from the reality of poor handwriting recognition , disappointing battery life , so-so screens and skyscrapingly high prices , that most users simply have n't bothered . |
| 8 | The lone watchman might , just possibly , be wandering around with an oil-can in hand but more probably was immersed in one of the lurid magazines with which what was called the engine-room library was so liberally stocked . |
| 9 | Though , come to think of it , anyone who goes rushing around with a child or , worse , a straw bale on their shoulders must be a few bricks short of a stable . |
| 10 | They went outside , Forster turning around with the set switched on , and finding the direction where the static was the strongest . |
| 11 | You ca n't wear gloves — there is no grip … there is so much dust around the grinding machines — one of them caught fire five times during the past three months … then there is a fellow going around with a bottle of water . |
| 12 | Well , seem funny a boxer going around with a tail wo n't it ? |
| 13 | By the time I was eight-years-old I was going around with a prostitute . |
| 14 | Well , I suppose , if somebody 's going around with an opinion pole , and they ask you about a certain , what you think about a certain thing , that , that , presume what their asking about , may affect everybody in different way |
| 15 | You can imagine : old Crumwallis going around with the expression of a Soviet agronomist at harvest time . |
| 16 | Her neighbour may be struggling with arthritis and moving around with a Zimmer frame but be quite able to follow current affairs and argue about Coronation Street . |
| 17 | Only in the former case , where the plasma is in equilibrium , its particles randomly moving around with a distribution of energies , does the concept of ‘ temperature ’ have a true meaning and the possibility of sustained thermo -nuclear fusion exist . |
| 18 | She 's not the one that was coming around with the baby ? |
| 19 | It was Michelle who was coming around with the baby . |
| 20 | Daniels ' burning ambition to be a magician came as an 11-year-old tinkering around with a box of magic given to him as a present , and it has paid off . |
| 21 | ‘ Dave thought someone was running around with a neighbour 's wife ’ said Alice quietly . |
| 22 | She was hanging around with a bunch of amateurs in Hell . |
| 23 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ I 'd just come back from the States and was hanging around with a band called Ashton Gardner and Dyke . |
| 24 | When I tried this sort of stuff before , I had one flight in a sort of plywood packing-case painted the colour of the blue stuff they used to paint on your balls when you got crabs and spent the rest of the day hanging around with a pack of strangle-voiced bores in bobble hats . |
| 25 | Hanging around with the photographer sparked Tony 's interest in the medium , ‘ It was a combination of things ; one was the bull , the adventure , the romance , and I really found that I liked it a lot . |
| 26 | He had twice been badly wounded and was still hobbling around with a stick when he was given command of Fort Vaux , the smallest of the forts ringing Verdun but crucial to the defence of the important Fort Souville . |
| 27 | And when he said , ‘ Ye start playin' around with the bugger on board Isvik … ’ |
| 28 | As the shadows lengthen , the men can be seen standing around with a pint of beer in hand , while mothers keep watchful eyes on the kids and catch up on the latest gossip . |
| 29 | And while he was on the film set or wherever he was you know , away from home for the week , he 'd be playing around with every bit of skirt he could find . |
| 30 | It certainly is n't simply a case of just reading up on the reviews , playing around with a couple of the likely programs and then buying a system or two and expecting peace , harmony and perfect publications to be the end result ! |