Example sentences of "round [coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 and it was just a case of erm pot luck , I would sort of brought it out and looked at it and , er no it was n't cooked , it was cooked on the edges so I turned it over and turned it round and put it back in again .
2 She tried to push past him , to get to the door , but he caught hold of her arm , spun her round and bundled her back into the lounge .
3 I think it 's only a question of taking it out turning it round and screwing it back in again .
4 He turned round and kicked me out of the classroom for doing it .
5 You push it in the stack , mist it round and pull it out like that ; and then smell the hay that comes out on its end .
6 Nigel rallied round and asked her out for a drink .
7 All that remains is to wrap the covering material round and glue it down to the boards .
8 He dragged a bag out , turned it round and pushed it back in exactly the same position .
9 If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy .
10 ‘ Do n't want you collapsing on us — not good for the department 's reputation , ’ she joked lightly , and wheeled him round and handed him over to his wife .
11 His whole body felt bruised from the speed at which Doyle had dragged him round and thrown him on to the floor when they heard the shout outside .
12 Strong hands turned him round and helped him out into the street again .
13 So it was a case there , and course at the end of the day you rolled the little roll up , put elastic round and stood them up in a file and they stood there like little soldiers and you could always go back to the actual time , sometimes you found a man had n't re erm signed on , he 'd just gone and joined his bus up in town centre , well you , that was er subject of another letter .
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