Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , the noise bellowing around Ibrox when the teams took to the pitch was an octave or two higher than normal . |
| 2 | He had spent much of the trial gazing around the court room particularly into the public gallery , but not once did he see Carol . |
| 3 | How stable is a system where the amounts of money whizzing around the foreign exchanges in search of a quick fix are 50 times more than the total needed to finance the whole of world trade ? |
| 4 | ‘ Our beloved Leader — our glorious Leader — ’ ( this repetition for the benefit of another , who responded , ‘ Long live the Leader ! ’ ) — ‘ has brought to his attention that someone who can still see this nation of the blind has noticed a certain car hanging around the hero 's house , filled with big bad men . |
| 5 | The slowly growing clear patch , the sprouting seeds in the greenhouse , the peace of the garden and spring unfolding around her were all marvellous . |
| 6 | Gregson felt the wind whipping around him , felt the chill grow more intense . |
| 7 | A dredge chugging around the Cornish coastline will suck up , with equipment resembling a giant vacuum cleaner , the mining waste that previous generations of tin miners have allowed to flow out to sea in streams and rivers . |
| 8 | My lips felt engorged , there was a ringing in my ears , and I could feel the blood pumping around the veins in my head . |
| 9 | They are stainless steel flotsam swishing around the uncaring beaches of other people 's lives . |
| 10 | She subsided into silence for a few minutes , her glance going around the room , her fingers twining restlessly in her lap until his hand reached out and covered hers . |
| 11 | Even as self-disgust welled up in her like pus for using Ember , even as the jellyfish threads of azure darkening around her made her want to mewl in repulsion , she was stepping forward . |
| 12 | She took a shaky breath and reached for the coffee-pot , an invisible shell of protective self-defence closing around her just in time . |
| 13 | Peering along its barrel he saw blood foaming around the cow 's mouth and heard clearly the tortured rasp of its breath between each anguished bellow . |
| 14 | There was a thin cut running around the skull , stitched in several places but held , in others , by several aluminium clips fixed to the skull like large staples holding the cranium shut . |
| 15 | With her skirt billowing around her , Charity rushed out to grab empties off the tables before the wind shattered more of them . |
| 16 | Only he had watched , fascinated , as the pool of blood collecting around the spilt innards suddenly burst its confines and set off down the road , finding its way slowly and with difficulty , its bright fresh surface soon matted with dust and drowning insects . |
| 17 | For at last the witch was weakened by Carmellina 's guile , and hoisted her to her feet , and pulled her over to the window and pointed down the stony path that led to one of her lair 's doors , and to the Indian fig cacti growing there in bat-eared monster shapes , and said , ‘ I 've always fancied a new little number , made to measure , of stuff woven from prickly-pear skins , bit of red for excitement , but mainly green , it 's so elegant , do n't you think , with long sleeves and a full skirt sweeping around me , with a bit of a train … . |
| 18 | IBM Corp and Sybase Inc have cooked up a co-development and co-marketing deal revolving around the RS/6000 to be announced this week . |
| 19 | We rarely took a vote sitting around the board table . |
| 20 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 21 | Now 26 , she spent many years after college hitchhiking around the world , drifting through the punk scene in San Francisco to demonstrations in Dallas , squats in Amsterdam and the women 's peace camp in Cosmo , Italy , before a British producer recognised her itinerant musical talent and signed her up with the bestselling Texas Campfire Tapes LP . |
| 22 | A fifteen-year-old in grey flannel wandering around London in school holidays with an adolescent 's apocalyptic vision , praying that he would lose his virginity before the bombs came and blasted him to oblivion . |
| 23 | Already he had spent an hour wandering around the town — it needed no more time than that — trying to get the feel of the place . |
| 24 | Jacques Delors had originally intended to spend the afternoon looking around the JET Fusion Project at Culham … but his visit was cut back to just over an hour after an emergency meeting with Prime Minister John Major . |
| 25 | Under the harsh highlights , she looks like a road-crash victim , stretched out on the tarmac , blonde hair fanning around her . |
| 26 | Rincewind pounded down an alley , paying no heed to the screams of rage coming from the picture box , and cleared a high wall with his frayed robe flapping around him like the feathers of a dishevelled jackdaw . |
| 27 | just mention that there are , there is carol singing around the tree at the bottom , Thursday , seven thirty . |
| 28 | Electrical equipment accumulating around the traditional musical instrument . |
| 29 | Undercover and uniformed customs officers are involved in a constant process of intelligence gathering around Scotland 's west coast , tracing suspicious vehicles , tracking vessels and simply listening . |
| 30 | For example that of Joe and Biddy which turns out to be a very happy , contented marriage reflecting around home life and this marriage depriving Pip of the chance to propose to Biddy though I think that she would have refused on the grounds that he was still in love with Estella . |