Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [vb infin] around [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Obviously , they would look pretty stupid wearing a T-shirt that read , ‘ That 's a nice dress you 're wearing ’ , so they may lounge around in something which relays almost the same message , but in a more roundabout way .
2 And as soon as they 'd finished questioning the Tomorrowman 's barman about the beer mat heist , they 'd get around to the rest .
3 They 'd haunt the alleys behind bakeries , they 'd help themselves from uncollected deliveries , they 'd stick around on the embankment for midnight handouts from the Salvation Army and the Krishna Temple .
4 Once locked on to a heartbeat pattern , they would whizz around like fireflies until they found the precise biosignal that would allow them to explode .
5 The one I 'd considered earlier , but they refuse single people because they would rattle around on their own .
6 They would come around at about ten and place their lamps out .
7 This ‘ mobility gap ’ separates the occupied ‘ delocalised ’ states that contain the mobile electrons ( and are so-called precisely because they can move around in the semiconductor ) from vacant delocalised states in higher Landau levels .
8 What they want out of a gang fight is a nice big bruise … that they can show around during the week . ’
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