Example sentences of "come round [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 THE time has come round in the European Commission 's calendar ( see page 5 ) when another set of committee meetings will set out to define yet another ‘ framework ’ programme , the commission 's name for the programmes of largely applied research which it plans and administers on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) .
2 Theodora circled the house in the direction of the arrow and came round to the back door .
3 It was easier for the man that came round with the Cooperative lorry to just take tokens
4 When I was in the hospital after I 'd had Baby , a bloke came round with the different contraceptives , saying which one are you going to use .
5 Even Mr Akers seemed slowly to be coming round to the sensible idea that IBM should be broken up .
6 A contract may be a contract , but Branson was now coming round to the belated realisation that a suitable gesture to Oldfield much earlier on in his career — increasing his royalty rate after Tubular Bells , for example — could have prevented all this ugliness .
7 I made the usual radio and pre-landing checks before coming round onto the final approach , much too high , but somehow I managed to do a reasonable landing .
8 Well no it does n't , if there 's nothing , if there 's nothing coming round from the other way it does n't go .
9 They do n't come round at the same time so you 're always out of phase and it always looks untidy .
10 If Johann did not open the door , Fritz would come round to the other side of the castle to find me .
11 Oh they 're going to change the rules that erm , you know there 's two scrumhalfs start on their side of the scrum , well they ca n't come round to the other side .
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