Example sentences of "he [vb past] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Yorkshireman explained that he lived around the corner , if Bruce needed to rest between gigs . |
| 2 | Habit shouldered curiosity out of the way for a moment when he got back to the house , and he checked around the Mercedes for damage . |
| 3 | The temperature had dropped during the night , and the dead leaves underfoot were bearded with ice ; they broke and crackled as he limped around the car and opened the trunk to get his kit . |
| 4 | A non dancer by nature , he swirled around the stage in a glorious celebration of newly liberated frustration . |
| 5 | Eugenius Birch 's fame rested mainly , however , on the fourteen seaside piers he built around the coasts of England and Wales . |
| 6 | Harrison knew many of the wrestlers and the rest of the morning passed pleasantly enough as he moved around the quacks and the pedlars , tinkers and gypsies and show people who were an enjoyable contrast to the farmers ' wives selling their freshly imprinted butter , with their buckets of eggs , the vegetables and poultry , rabbits , game pies , potted char , rum butter . |
| 7 | He was indefatigable in confirming all who came to him as he moved around the countryside , and in his moments of leisure he wrote the longest of his Meditations on the theme of Cur Deus Homo , and his De Conceptu Virginali as a sequel to this work . |
| 8 | He moved around the table to her and as he moved he spoke slowly and meaningfully . |
| 9 | Pressing himself against the last wagon he peered around the side for any sign of the guards . |
| 10 | He wandered around the streets in the heart of the city , past darkened buildings with odd floors of offices lit , ready , and empty . |
| 11 | His fur leggings became saturated as he paced around the edge . |
| 12 | He paced around the room . |
| 13 | Darwin 's acceptance of Lyell 's views was complete by mid-1834 when he sailed around the Horn . |
| 14 | Between 1577 and 1580 he sailed around the world — the first Englishman to carry out the feat originally achieved by the survivors of Magellan 's voyage 60 years earlier — plundering Spanish ships and towns of their gold and silver as he did so . |
| 15 | And as he poked around the undergrowth for hidden poachers , another shot would ring out from the far end of the water . |
| 16 | Then he came around the bend and saw the bicycle . |
| 17 | He gestured around the room . |
| 18 | He sauntered around the desk , leaving the show to Hennessy . |
| 19 | When he rooted around the kitchen he was amazed at the amount of food she had stored . |
| 20 | The excess starters , generators , regulators and anything else that we were n't supposed to have was put on this trailer , was tied neatly to the canvas , we put a man on the tractor and all day long he drove around the perimeter strip with it . |
| 21 | Cassidy , I thought , was rather more interesting in his nightmarish salamander-prince incarnation , where he writhed around the stage in scaly green tights . |
| 22 | And a one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , ’ and with that he danced around the room , his shoes tapping rhythmically on the floor springing and twirling around and , as he tapped and stamped , he yelled out , ‘ Shuffle hop , Cramp roll , Buffalo . ’ |
| 23 | He danced around the area , shaking an Ascon , a gourd filled with snake vertebrae . |
| 24 | He noticed in himself a definite tendency to swagger as he walked around the camp that morning and he had tried consciously to suppress it . |
| 25 | He walked around the desk and gave it to Michael . |
| 26 | He walked around the vehicle a couple of times , stretching his legs , stopping by the bonnet to squat down on his knees . |
| 27 | He walked around the stage , perfecting his stunts , or just slept in his dressing-room or paced the empty corridors . |
| 28 | He walked around the block a number of times to check all of the approaches , any possible escape route , then he picked up some hot coffee and a sticky croissant and settled in a doorway to watch . |
| 29 | Green did not go to church every Sunday — sometimes he walked around the house and idled , or went for a walk in the hills ; but he notes his attendance at church , in Ambleside , Grasmere or Keswick and the preacher he has heard . |
| 30 | He walked around the table now in an exaggerated pose , and Harry , laughing , said , ‘ If it was n't for spoiling Aunt Ellen 's work I would throw that centrepiece at you . ’ |