Example sentences of "around [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women on the part-time farms were often the only people around during the short winter days so all outside stock had to be attended to by them . |
| 2 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 3 | In Budapest , they still strolled around for the sheer pleasure of it . |
| 4 | The chub flit in and out of the weed like silent ghosts , grubbing for food , seeking shelter from the bright sun , and sometimes just playing around for the sheer hell of it . |
| 5 | Novell Inc Japan , which will be Univel Inc 's distributor there , is n't waiting around for the Japanese version of UnixWare to start its assault on the market . |
| 6 | It went without saying that he did n't want to be seen , but it was worth the extra discomfort of hanging around for the extra information that he might pick up . |
| 7 | Things were n't going well for the American studios , either at home or in the UK , and they became increasingly desperate , hunting around for the winning formula some had lost and others never found . |
| 8 | With prices down by up to a third in some areas , there are many bargains around for the discerning buyer whether you fancy a converted barn or like the challenge of renovating . |
| 9 | Once inside the shed , Amis entered the cage and cast around for the big wrench that he 'd taken to keeping in here . |
| 10 | In that case , we want to be around for the big money in the fourth , fifth and sixth records . |
| 11 | We could n't wait around for the magic day when the men turned to us and said , ‘ OK girls , now it 's your turn . ’ |
| 12 | The more common B I state places the phosphate in a roughly symmetric position with respect to both grooves , while the B II state swings the phosphate around towards the minor groove . |
| 13 | ‘ Especially with you tearing around like the wronged boyfriend in the last reel of Some Came Running , waving your wretched gun . |
| 14 | If they fiddle around with the short-term situation that will not enable them to win ; it will not enable them to get a better general election performance . |
| 15 | It will augment the Commission 's power to tinker around with the European economy for its own purposes , or in the interest of its more powerful members . |
| 16 | KELLAWAYS is a perfect miniature manor house , set in flat fields beside the wide River Avon , which floods the farmland around with the utmost regularity . |
| 17 | With a muffled cry of rage at her own weakness , Isabel shoved furiously at fitzAlan 's broad shoulder with one hand and brought the other up and around with the full force of her arm behind it . |
| 18 | When Mrs Jones says : ‘ My Johnny is really a good boy but got to running around with the wrong bunch and got into trouble ’ , she is making a set of assumptions which , when spelled out more explicitly , constitute the foundations of an important school of thought in the scientific study of juvenile delinquency . |
| 19 | ‘ He began getting very rebellious and started hanging around with the wrong crowd , says Steven . |
| 20 | In bed , the very heavy patient may be moved around with the Australian lift . |
| 21 | Within 10 years many of us will be spending almost all our time zooming around inside the digital ocean and interacting with others . |
| 22 | it 's all these odd ideas that go around in the barbaric south that 's the trouble ! |
| 23 | Robert O'Mahoney 's King , a ‘ dynamotologist ’ — ‘ self-realisation , you know ? ’ — is the picture of a man floundering around in the deep end of life , who has forgotten not only how to swim , but even where he left his life jacket . |
| 24 | Agnes went back into the cottage and , hearing Alisdair moving around in the other room , poured the water into a basin so that he might wash . |
| 25 | We 'd just sit around in the front parlour of my house and smoke Typhoo Tea in my dad 's pipe . |
| 26 | Conscious that she had been crawling around in the hot sunshine for some time without a hat , she retired a short distance to the shade of some trees , sat down on a convenient boulder and tried to conjecture how Alain Gebrec might have spent his last moments . |
| 27 | Culley moved around in the small space close to the window . |
| 28 | She 's been nosing around in the regulating office , bet you anything you like she has , and she does n't fool me ! ’ |
| 29 | If you do venture by car on to the edge of Otmoor , there is the feeling that you will be unable to turn around in the narrow space between the dykes , or may get stuck up to the axles in mud . |
| 30 | They had rolled around in the narrow berth on the unanchored sheet , slipping on the shiny much-worn cheap leatherette surface of the bunk , lurching in and out of one another in a determined kind of way , the only passengers on the boat not to be paralysed with seasickness . |