It is at a large lake surrounded with semi-dark bushes, near Vellode.

Unlike many Americans, she was surrounded by reporters, a camera crew and tourists in Kennebunkport, Me., near the family's retreat.

We had been sent a photocopied picture showing a neat-looking, ivy-covered stone house surrounded by willows and near a bridge.

(When given a choice, people of various backgrounds opt for high ground surrounded by open space and near a large body of water.)

The German troops were surrounded near Fornovo and forced to surrender.

However, on 26 April 1771 his troop was finally surrounded near Szreńsk and defeated by the Russians.

It is surrounded by Cornish countryside and near to miles of quieter coastline.

Four days later, the weary and dispirited column was surrounded near Krugersdorp within sight of Johannesburg.

There they were surrounded near the central fountain, broken into small groups and slaughtered piecemeal.

A single simple chiefdom is generally composed of a central community surrounded by or near a number of smaller subsidiary communities.