Example sentences of "surround [pers pn] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are masses of aliens surrounding you on all sides . |
| 2 | Giant trees were soon surrounding him on all sides and their branches made an almost solid roof high above his head , blotting out the sky . |
| 3 | In the centre of the square was a stone archway with a clock in its wall and on the ground below , surrounding it on four sides , were wooden benches . |
| 4 | Conceptually , the inner city is a space outside society which has shown , for whatever reasons , a marked recalcitrance in responding to the macro-economic revival that surrounded it on all sides ( Massey and Meegan , 1989 ) . |
| 5 | Trees surrounded it on all sides . |
| 6 | Thick hedgerows surrounded it on three sides . |