Example sentences of "[v-ing] it around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monetarist line is the populist line and to prove it , Sir Rhodes Boyson was peddling it around the Winter Gardens yesterday . |
| 2 | Tie each section of foam in position , with one piece of string , winding it around the plastic tube between the blocks . |
| 3 | IN the middle 80s , snooker was booming and I was doing my best to cash-in on selling it around the world . |
| 4 | Yeah but are you supposed to be wearing it around the school ? |
| 5 | The impact of technology is such that you can now do by electronic means a lot of things which were previously done by middle managers — collecting information , processing it , manipulating it in various ways : shunting it around the organisation . ’ |
| 6 | Now suppose that the electron 's mass is increased 207 times ( so that it is like a muon ) while it remains subject to the same attractive force holding it around the proton . |
| 7 | Christina noticed that Susanna played with her food , moving it around the plate before leaving most of it . |
| 8 | We tested this out by taking it around the office and the people in the office thought it was a bit boring we er thought it was great for the youngsters who probably like it so er erm and the merchandise we 've actually , we 've made up certain things , T-shirts and , and , and wacky items that again er relate to , to young people so that they get into the , the , the theme of the thing and the , the whole year carries forward on a , on a certain colour theme and , and , and so on , so er we 've done our best as sailing coaches not only learning to be marketeers again the money , where 's the money come from ? |
| 9 | Transnational corporations in the grain business , financing its production , trans ’ porting it around the world , building handling facilities , processing it , breeding fine seeds , might well consider that the inhibition of Third World grain production will maximize their profits . |
| 10 | I 'm not putting it around the table , because it 's a very long letter , and I do n't think we could have a worthwhile discussion on it right now . |
| 11 | The Egyptians will expose the silica gel , which has been donated by Crosfield Chemicals , to humidity before placing it around the ship . |
| 12 | One of my first memories as a young boy is of capturing a small bird and carrying it around the village inside my shirt pocket . |
| 13 | He removes his parka , wrapping it around the muzzle of his Sturm-Ruger , and sits back on the step of the lectern . |
| 14 | Is that the only reasonable way of storing energy and transferring it around the country for example ? |
| 15 | He came to see you , he came in with a fag , wafting it around the place |
| 16 | Terry , Brian and I also soon lost interest in monitoring it around the clock , although we 'd listen to programmes that sounded interesting , together with a couple of news bulletins a day and then VOA at night as Tom went off to sleep and the rest of us played cards . |