Buildings with a "historical value" started to be rehabilitated then, and surrounded by renovated public spaces, in order to be strolled around and inhabited by, respectively, "hypermodern" (efficient and official) executives and their "web surfer" children who had left the city in fear, in search of an artificialized countryside.
Being surrounded by them was starting to be not the best feeling.
The crowd consisted of men and women about equally, yet women far outnumbered men onstage, and when at last the show's platinum-wigged M.C. cried out, "Where's the beef?" the six-packed, long-haired man who climbed up through a trapdoor and started to strip was surrounded by 8 or 10 already almost-bare women.
As the players take their turns, no matter how straight on the way they were started, Bunny will be surrounded with eggs, until a player pins the egg in Bunny's arms.
The war with America had started, Kunduz was surrounded and suddenly, he said, all the foreigners were told to surrender to the Northern Alliance.
When their march finally started, it was surrounded on both sides by hooligans whose job – it seems – was to harass photographers with complete impunity.
Getting started: I was surrounded by country music living above my parents' saloon in Forestburgh, N.Y.
Here in the former Saigon, as in Hanoi where his visit started, Mr. Clinton was surrounded by throngs of excited onlookers, many of whom had fought and lost alongside America against the victorious Communist north 25 years ago.
"When we were in the corridor, we started being surrounded by hundreds of people who wanted to talk to us.
Also bear in mind that if you start a fight, you will be surrounded and greatly outnumbered.
