Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were followed around the house as they washed and dressed , but the social workers were stopped by Mrs H from going upstairs to get the children up . |
| 2 | They were built around the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | They 'd had plenty of bait four nights ago , then another two helpings of bait on another two nights and , although they were moving around the swim as was evidenced by line bites and rolling , they were just not inclined to feed — whatever the conditions . |
| 4 | They were employed around the compound as permanent sentries . |
| 5 | They were driving around the Green and the smell of damp earth and undergrowth was rich , overlaying even the sharp car fumes . |
| 6 | They were dropped around the Rio Jara base , where two Panamanian companies were ‘ neutralised ’ by a parachute battalion of 600 US Rangers . |
| 7 | His cultural detective work leads him through aesthetic , anthropological and medical discourses about ‘ race ’ and sexuality , specifically as they were articulated around the figures of the female Hottentot and the prostitute in the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | They were published around the world during 1987 beginning in MANCHETE , ( Brazil ) 16 May ( " Serra Pelado — A Torre de Babel desce ao inferno " ) , followed by THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE , London , on 24 May ( " In the Hellhole " ) and then in THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE , 7 June ( " An Epic Struggle for Gold " ) . |
| 9 | Gawd help us , no wonder the launch was ‘ shrouded ’ in mystery : the last time I saw those shirts they were wrapped around the kneelers in Mitchley Crematorium ! |