Example sentences of "[verb] around [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was good to hear voices echoing around the sometimes solemn house and the laughter of the women as they moved around attending to their chores . |
| 2 | Any decent sized salmon would be bound to show itself as it moved around waiting for the next tide to free it . |
| 3 | They say that you can easily spot the tourists in the Big Apple — they are the people walking around gazing at the sky , at the tops of the skyscrapers . |
| 4 | I do n't really like walking around thinking I 'd like to buy that — I 'd rather not go . |
| 5 | ‘ The last thing it needs is pupils walking around mucking it up . ’ |
| 6 | Walking around worrying about whether or not you are going to be late will be counterproductive . |
| 7 | ‘ I was n't walking around saying , ‘ Oh I do n't have enough money to do what I want to do ‘ cause I do n't have commercial support for my work . ’ |
| 8 | Big Tweedy 's was a replica of the goal scored by Carlos Alberto in the 1970 World Cup Final so he is walking around feeling very pleased with himself this morning ! ’ |
| 9 | Harvey was clowning around pretending to be a gunman , which was his way of being sarcastic to me . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm so pinched for time that I race around grabbing the first thing I see . ’ |
| 11 | Keep condoms handy , so you do n't have to go tearing around looking for them at that crucial moment . |
| 12 | To add to the general gothic touch , the now released pigeons fly around depositing their droppings on the dead body . |
| 13 | This was the bit when Smith paced around humming ‘ Danny Boy ’ and sucking his gums , making small wet staccato kissing noises . |
| 14 | I paced around smoking while I decided what to do . |
| 15 | When you 've botched a job a dozen times you do n't hang around waiting to try one more time , you abandon it . |
| 16 | Researchers who were interested in people 's views on blood sports could either hang around waiting for respondents spontaneously to bring the subject up , or they could ask directed questions about this on a structured questionnaire , taking care to ask everybody exactly the same question . |
| 17 | Maybe Rohan had thought so too , and gone for a walk , rather than hang around waiting , and getting frozen . |
| 18 | I 'll never get married again , so do n't hang around waiting for it , and do n't expect to have me at your beck and call , because that is n't how I am . |
| 19 | I 'm tired and hungry your mum has n't had dinner yet , put him up and dress and I thought I 'm not gon na hang around doing something for dinner |
| 20 | Bernard told Apricot that to believe in ghosts was to insult God : the souls of the dead went to heaven , purgatory or hell , depending , but did not hang around afflicting the living . |
| 21 | Congress , the G M B as a union founded and built around working people as a duty , an obligation to accept that challenge and to lead that campaign . |
| 22 | Too early for the ballet , Gina wandered around giving herself up to the magic of the gardens , walking round the lake where large metal dragon-flies appeared to hover as the flickering lights in their wings simulated movement . |
| 23 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 24 | Bob Ivie and Tony Marinello were running the bar , having a great time , and making themselves easily popular ; they were ignoring Dizzy 's Women in favour of the locals , leaving the Sloanes to stand around looking remote and faintly embarrassed in a way that displeased Diane not at all . |
| 25 | It is ill mannered to stand around gossiping , as nothing is more irritating to a person waiting for attention . |
| 26 | Although they will gallop around trying to get rid of the bot-fly , they seem to quickly discover that the bot will not follow them into the dense shade of a shelter shed or stable . |
| 27 | I mean , bugger me , all they do is sit in little Toyota vans all day bouncing around taking pictures of Tommies . ’ |
| 28 | They turned round and said I was wasting the officers ' time , looking around searching for me , but I could n't go anywhere with all the doors locked . |
| 29 | You walk around stepping . |
| 30 | Even then we would play it a bit too close and find that some unforeseen emergency would send us scrambling around looking for something we could sell to avoid starvation . |