Example sentences of "be [v-ing] around [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 2 | A few major labels have been sniffing around on the strength of ‘ Rockin' The Forest ’ . |
| 3 | I hang my coat up and start to shout and tell those who are hanging around in the corridor to get outside until the bell goes . |
| 4 | And Miss Haines , as Clara suddenly realized , with a curious tremor of conviction , had actually been hanging around in the corridor waiting for her to emerge . |
| 5 | ‘ Other members of the herd are swimming around in the blood-red sea as this killing continues . |
| 6 | Wear loose fitting clothing to protect your shoulders , arms and legs when you 're walking around in the sun . |
| 7 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
| 8 | ‘ Rumours are going around about the bread It is making , the increase in circulation , the increase in ads , and yet that cat is still hustling for bread . ’ |
| 9 | Great reports are going around about the celebration of the Easter Triduum . |
| 10 | The reason why people are willing to spend money and time looking at the geology of Lake Tocarno of course is that some of our ancestors are lying around in the rocks and people are therefore very keen on getting accurate dating of the fossils and one way of doing that is to get erm accurate datings of changes in other fossils that you can co-ordinate with them . |
| 11 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that if the Labour party implemented even a fraction of the spending priorities that it has been spreading around over the past year or two , to the tune of £30 billion or £40 billion extra expenditure , it would not only have to face the problem of raising taxation , but would have to resort to massive borrowing , which would increase interest rates and greatly damage the economy ? |
| 12 | To do this it uses raw materials that are drifting around in the cell , being , very probably , the products of other protein machines . |
| 13 | Inside the hive , where the dance is performed , it is dark and the bees are moving around on the vertical wall of the honeycomb . |
| 14 | Names that are flying around at the moment are the US General Accounting Office , the Stanford Research Institute or one of the US National Laboratories such as the Los Alamos Lab . |
| 15 | At the time I honestly never gave a thought to why Billy Tuckett had been poncing around on the roof in the wee small hours or why he 'd chosen Sunil 's bathroom to fall through . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It 's a challenge and it 's just fun to be swooping around in the sky . |
| 20 | Or maybe she was happy at the fact that , in a few minutes , after a couple of minutes ' contact with Clara Beeding 's right mitt , she would be skipping around with the best of them . |
| 21 | Theseus would still be blundering around in the labyrinth where he went to slay the Minotaur , if Ariadne had not given him a ball of thread so that he could retrace his steps when the deed was done . |
| 22 | She 's been nosing around in the regulating office , bet you anything you like she has , and she does n't fool me ! ’ |
| 23 | The mothers are sitting around on the grass while the playworkers look after the children . |
| 24 | I 've never known Ellie voluntairily stop home to cook when all of us been sitting around in the boozer chewin' the fat . |
| 25 | TAZ Bey 's theory of the ‘ temporary autonomous zone ’ has been floating around on the margins of Stateside cybertippy culture for a couple of years and has now drifted over here . |
| 26 | The IBM Corp share price has been floating around in the mid-$50s range as the memory of the ghastly fourth quarter begins to fade and odd bits of encouraging news come out — but the first quarter figures will soon begin to loom , and evidence that they will not be too jolly comes from BMC Software Inc , which warns of continuing weakness in international sales , and that customers are delaying purchases to study alternatives to mainframes , which are falling out of favour . |
| 27 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
| 28 | My voice had risen a good half-octave and my hands were waggling around on the end of my arms as though I was trying to shake off bits of Sellotape . |
| 29 | The servants were moving around inside the room lighting the lamps now . |
| 30 | ‘ We were blundering around in the darkness ! ’ said Gurder . |