1.   Beside the portrait was a carved cuckoo clock with green ivy and purple grapes growing around a green front door.

2.   Like many other West Lothian settlements, the village grew around a shale oil refinery.

3.   The fortress grew around her, stone into wood, rooms into glades, fortress into forest.

4.   A small beard grew around the mouth and a pony tail weaved down his back.

5.   Evidence of decay is everywhere from crumbling missile bunkers near Budapest to bald tyres on the transport planes, to weeds growing around the proud old MIGs at Taszar.

6.   His hair was dishevelled, his beard had grown around his neck as if he had spent the past four months away from civilisation.

7.   Amanita are tall gilled mushrooms with long stems, which grow around trees in pine forests.

8.   As environmental concerns grow around the world and turbine costs come down, the market for clean wind power should boom, Richartz predicted.