Example sentences of "they [vb base] around [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the z-axis is invariant under the flow , so any periodic orbits in the system can be partially described by an integer n specifying the number of times that they wind around the z-axis . |
| 2 | The warders and the trusties from Internal Order are at the doors of the huts , and the zeks are pitched out into the night darkness and spill to the perimeter path , and like an ant trail they wind around the compound for what is classified as Exercise . |
| 3 | Alert for scraps of anything edible , they congregate around the slaughterhouse or sewer outlets and they probably deserve their local name of ‘ stinker ’ ! |
| 4 | also newcastle fans have two HUGE flags which they transport around the ground , everyone lifting the flag around — i think it 's the only english club iv'e seen doing that — you see this kind of flagging from time to time around europe ( even up here in Trondheim ) |
| 5 | The result is that they hang around the city and most family incomes are supplemented by crime of one sort or another . |
| 6 | Like domestic Guinea Pigs , the young are born well developed after a long gestation period of four months — covered in fur and with eyes open , they run around the mother soon after birth . |
| 7 | As they drive around the countryside the newcomers can not distinguish between those fields which have been ploughed with a supreme exhibition of the farm worker 's skills and those which have not ; nor are they able to appreciate the beauty of a faultlessly drilled seed-bed , healthy stock or clean weed-free fields . |
| 8 | They hurtle around the hallway and try to bark it down . |
| 9 | The fossils showed that new groups originated in particular parts of the world , and focused attention on the process by which they expand around the globe , often exterminating more primitive forms as they go . |
| 10 | There is plenty for you to watch : the way they feed , the way they cluster around the queen , the way they look after their eggs and grubs ( larvae ) , the development of the larvae into adult ants . |
| 11 | There are identifiable groups of black pupils as they move around the school and we have had problems this last year with a particular large group of black pupils who have set out their stalls to appear aggressive . |
| 12 | They move around the tank , scattering the smaller fish in all directions , although they do n't attack or harm them in any way . |
| 13 | On the seventh day they march around the city seven times . |
| 14 | They help around the house , but not so with our generation . |
| 15 | They are caused by the giant plates which carry the continents bumping and grinding into each other as they float around the Earth 's molten centre . |