Example sentences of "set [adv prt] around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking outside again Joseph saw then that the smoke and explosions were emanating from tall bamboo poles set up around the courtyard . |
| 2 | The businessmen then trade their wares , which also include pictures and antiques , at makeshift auctions set up around the province . |
| 3 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
| 4 | The number of alumni living abroad is also staggering and it looks likely that more Napier groups could be set up around the globe . |
| 5 | A computermail database network has even been set up around the country for fans to debate the killer of Laura Palmer , the lovely blonde homecoming queen whose body mysteriously washes onto a river bank near a lumbermill in the fictional Pacific northwest town of Twin Peaks . |
| 6 | On his arrival , he had been satisfied to see the defences that had been set up around the hospital , and had every intention of congratulating those responsible . |
| 7 | Setting off around the corner after negotiating the flake on Valkyrie . |
| 8 | But in 1919 disenchantment set in around the globe . |
| 9 | That summer I could only think he was mad as he set off around the town and I dozed in the dark heat and stillness of the garden . |
| 10 | Annabel units from Bernstein 's Misty Bedroom Range set up around the bed form an attractive alcove with a dressing table unit and cupboards . |
| 11 | The experiment in the Morton salt Mine in Ohio is one of a number set up around the world to do just this . |