Example sentences of "around on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 2 | " The boy ; they were n't there when we went in nor were they around on the two occasions I checked the street , not were they there when I accompanied the doctor to the cab . " |
| 3 | Here , the community deputy has turned the argument around on the other deputy by suggesting he does not understand the issues that are central to bringing school and community together in one institution . |
| 4 | Joe Lucas was waiting by the lodge , around on the other side . |
| 5 | As opposed to the Islamic loony now prancing around on the other side of the room , thought Robert bitterly . |
| 6 | There were puffins everywhere : the sky was full of whirring wings , and hundreds of birds were standing around on the grassy slope which was honeycombed with puffin burrows . |
| 7 | There were legs flying in all directions as Moby dashed around on the front lawn of Bradley 's smart surgery near Harrow . |
| 8 | Any rock lying around on the frozen continent stands a good chance of being a meteorite as — the occasional ice-piercing mountain aside — there is nowhere else to come from but the heavens . |
| 9 | In the thick of a stubborn recession , his Government portfolio is a tricky one to carry around on the General Election campaign . |
| 10 | And then you 're gon na be faced with , with two people at the moment , erm that do the running around on the outside party |
| 11 | Other men bustled around on the wide dock area , busying themselves . |
| 12 | Andy the gardener was standing around on the lower terrace looking at some white geraniums he had set out in an urn by the pool house , and although she shrank from returning to the scene of yesterday 's shame , she decided to go and rap with him . |
| 13 | It will not only knock us around on the slightest whim ; but because of its size as a mature horse , it may become dangerous for us and others to handle . |
| 14 | They let them slide around on the polished floor and listen to music on the ward radio . |
| 15 | Not from the beach — I think the salt there would probably kill hookworm — but in the back streets of the town , where the sewage system was n't what it might have been , and also walking around on the wooden deck of an old schooner sailing to Aldabra . |
| 16 | He stared across the table at me , rolling the empty tumbler around on the wooden table-top . |
| 17 | A little bit further up ( or is it down ? ) the valley on Freda 's Buttress , M. Evans and A. Thornton have been ‘ Frolic ’ ing around on the rightward starting corner at the lefthand end of the buttress , the result being E5 4c . |
| 18 | Inside the hive , where the dance is performed , it is dark and the bees are moving around on the vertical wall of the honeycomb . |
| 19 | ‘ I always seem to do my best when the big players are around on the big occasion , not at smaller tournaments like these . ’ |