Example sentences of "around in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , she grabbed hold of the dispenser 's cooling fin whilst it was waving a krill doughnut around in a vain attempt to attract custom , pulled it close and , in a casual and unremarkable manner , moved her hand down to the dispenser 's access plate and ran her fingers around the seam until she felt a magnetic bolt buzzing beneath her fingers . |
| 2 | This is analogous to wandering around in a misty marsh in a river valley surrounded by invisible summits . |
| 3 | ‘ Towing a whale around in a tiny cage when it is used to roaming the oceans defies belief and serves no purpose in welfare or education terms , ’ he said . |
| 4 | When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest . |
| 5 | ‘ Places where the team flies around in a private jet . |
| 6 | Next , you spin on your front foot , sweeping the rear leg around in a wide arc that intersects the back of the opponent 's supporting leg . |
| 7 | Forster 's voice was incredulous as he swung his torch around in a wide arc . |
| 8 | ‘ There used to be sea here , ’ he remarked , sweeping his conning tower of an arm around in a wide arc . |
| 9 | He streaked out of a thin patch and saw the aircraft bigger now and shinier , curling around in a wide arc to start landing . |
| 10 | As they glided around in a wide circle towards the Wyrmberg it was definitely taking on a more solid form , as if the creature 's body was filling with a gold mist . |
| 11 | Diana seemed distressed , rushing around in a distracted way — oblivious , it seemed to me , of the work we had all put in for her brother 's wedding . |
| 12 | The evolutionary advantage of this is that the animal need not lie around in a torpid state , vulnerable to attack . |
| 13 | That does n't mean we have to go around in a great lather of gratitude all the time . |
| 14 | Thus it was that , as a grinning Lio ! rt swung back and brought his sword around in a lazy arc , time ran into treacle . |
| 15 | Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green . |
| 16 | It was definitely not a night to let a friend wander around in a drunken stupor searching for his car . |
| 17 | Hurt was celebrating an award which had been won by his TV series The Storyteller and was staggering around in a drunken haze when he turned on the paparazzi and yelled , ‘ Those bastards have been winding me up all night . |
| 18 | Three of the ‘ Dainty Dozen ’ ( as the 482nd christened them ) who had been MT drivers during the war drove the party around in a 12-seater minibus that flew Union Jacks to warn the unsuspecting American public that they were not used to driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 19 | After the final number , when all the dancers came offstage whooping and whistling with relief to crowd into the showers , Lucy followed Josie around in a final inventory of wigs and clothing and then generally cleared up ready for the next night 's work . |
| 20 | Perhaps eight people of various ages will be invited to an agency and will sit around in a comfortable room simply responding to very informal promptings from the discussion leader . |
| 21 | If we believe , and many of us do , in unitary local government — one door to knock on and one set of people to hold to account — we must give them something to do other than riding around in a civic car pretending that they are important and delivering nothing , responsive to no demands , not aspiring to change and improvement , and not even doing what the Conservatives of old did in the Chamberlain era when there was the sort of socialism that is now anathema to the Tory party . |
| 22 | The digger careered around in a big circle , so that when the two humans crawled out of the wreckage it was the first thing they saw . |
| 23 | But there are also thousands of people walking around in a semi-drugged state day after day because they are in the habit of taking tablets , whether prescribed or bought over the counter . |
| 24 | He runs around in a dazzle-painted sports-fisherman called Dream Baby . ’ |
| 25 | Where they used to rely on incessant effects , now they are n't afraid to leave gaps and swoon around in a beautiful noise of their own making . |
| 26 | He prowled around in a simian hunger , searching for things to splatter and deface . |
| 27 | Running around in a Chevy Bronco with Texas licence plates — everyone has to know he 's working for you . |
| 28 | A jovial , curly-headed man , Mulverin was squelching around in a muddy yard outside the cowshed , mucking out with a spade . |
| 29 | One or two of the old films are now on CD video because they are important documents of certain artists , but the way we are filming and editing the films I am now making is completely different We have learnt a very great deal in these years and so we forget about the older films just as you would n't dream of driving around in a thirty-year-old car . |
| 30 | The females lay eggs in early summer and carry them around in a special brood pouch on the underside of the thorax . |