Example sentences of "[v-ing] around in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the kite that Lord Hanson has flown is bobbing around in the political and financial winds . |
| 2 | He stood , arms akimbo , looking around in the musty gloom . |
| 3 | ‘ — ten days on St Lucia , swimming around in the pellucid Caribbean waters — ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Other members of the herd are swimming around in the blood-red sea as this killing continues . |
| 5 | Agnes went back into the cottage and , hearing Alisdair moving around in the other room , poured the water into a basin so that he might wash . |
| 6 | The mountain goat 's ancestry , as a member of the Bovid family , gave it a good start : it gave the animal the means of subsisting on the poor mountain vegetation , and it provided it with feet that could be adapted to moving around in the precipitous terrain . |
| 7 | On Eastbourne promenade we have created a tropical paradise with flowers from all over the world , and into this setting , flying around in the natural habitat are 100 's of LIVE butterflies . |
| 8 | These entail grubbing around in the murky bottom silt of a muddy pond for invertebrates . |
| 9 | All they needed was the proof , and when a photographer hired by a down-market Sunday newspaper caught the Princess of Wales emerging from her friend Kate Menzies 's mews house during the early hours of the morning with David Waterhouse , and fooling around in the quiet road , they thought they had it . |
| 10 | I 'm the one running around in the fockin' rain ! ’ |
| 11 | Conscious that she had been crawling around in the hot sunshine for some time without a hat , she retired a short distance to the shade of some trees , sat down on a convenient boulder and tried to conjecture how Alain Gebrec might have spent his last moments . |
| 12 | Robert O'Mahoney 's King , a ‘ dynamotologist ’ — ‘ self-realisation , you know ? ’ — is the picture of a man floundering around in the deep end of life , who has forgotten not only how to swim , but even where he left his life jacket . |
| 13 | ‘ Parading around in the Nude , ’ said William . |
| 14 | She 's been nosing around in the regulating office , bet you anything you like she has , and she does n't fool me ! ’ |
| 15 | There was to be no paddling around in the shallow waters for this man , Ruth thought . |
| 16 | The surface oceans are actually super-saturated with calcium carbonate so there 's a lot in solution , there 's more in solution than in theory is possible , in super-saturated condition and in addition there 's a lot floating around in the solid form in biological material . |
| 17 | Here he is remembering Nick Kent standing around in the old NME offices in Carnaby Street talking about what Keith Richards had said to him once , when he noticed something hanging out of his leather trousers . |
| 18 | T was not the best night for standing around in the cold wind and rain ( OK so it 's undercover , but the wind do n't half blow through there ) watching telly ( and paying a fiver for the priviledge of doing so ) |
| 19 | In a few days time we 'll be sitting him on top of a bonfire and standing around in the cold night while we light up the sky with loads of colour . |
| 20 | He 'd been pottering around in the big old half-ruined sheds on the other side of the quarry , one day back in the summer . |