Example sentences of "around [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 2 | You 're letting me run around like a headless fucking chicken while you 've got the one piece of information that could lead me straight to her ! ’ |
| 3 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 4 | ‘ They have turned the company around against a tight economic background and it would be shame if it was pounced on . |
| 5 | He struggled painfully around into a new foetal position and started work on the back of the back seat . |
| 6 | It seemed eminently believable that you , or possibly your family , had been annoyed , devastated — whatever — on finding out that your grandfather had been playing around with a young Irish girl , and had sent you over to demand an explanation , exact retribution … ’ |
| 7 | He put down his pocket Bible and looked around with a certain grim satisfaction . |
| 8 | But something about him had fastened itself to her memory , and she found herself saying to a bartender the night after , ‘ Do you know a boy , about fifteen or sixteen , a legit , who goes around with a large black dog ? ’ |
| 9 | I mean you see them walking around particularly people who go for the big dogs , you see them walking around with a big thick necks , the tattoos , the er the boots and the jeans rolled up . |
| 10 | Around the catafalque are some of his most powerful magical items , which lie scattered around in a strange quasi-circular pattern as if they were being drawn to the catafalque in a spiralling motion and suddenly stopped . |
| 11 | Kids who never made it to the gig are cruising aggressively around in a heady charged way . |
| 12 | But the ruler who likes to be driven around in a sinister black Range Rover with dark tinted windows casts a long shadow of fear . |
| 13 | ‘ Then let 'em come , ’ Lambert said , ‘ and we 'll keep the war warm for ‘ em , but for God 's sake do n't tell me I 'm helping to knacker the Kaiser by farting around in a clapped-out one-gun flying coffin , because I 've seen too much of it . ’ |
| 14 | You 're much too young to be thinking about boys , when I was your age I went around in a big friendly group , plenty of time for all that later on . |
| 15 | Stroll around in a smart blue uniform ? ’ |
| 16 | Therefore , the notion of being whirled around in a low-level steep bank , at maximum take-off weight , would surely have been viewed with scepticism by pilots and aircrew . |
| 17 | INTO THE WEST : Two travelling children chase around on a stolen white stallion . |
| 18 | He looked around at a sudden grinding noise , and a voice like a carving knife cutting through silk said , ‘ This is very undignified . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He was shoved around by a few other prisoners , ’ said a guard at the Bois d'Arcy prison , outside Paris . |