Example sentences of "[noun] round about " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while Sara was pleased to accept girls from the big houses round about , she also wanted pupils from less luxurious backgrounds in the town and from Bridgeborough . |
| 2 | Cyrene , like Syracuse , was culturally cosmopolitan , so that for instance its art owes a clear debt to Athens , witness the bronze head from the mid-fifth century , in the style of Phidias ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate xxiv , 3–4 ) ; it was multi-racial , so that the sixth-century reformer Demonax allowed one tribe for the native ‘ dwellers round about ’ , as well as one for the old Greek settlers and one for new arrivals ( Hdt. iv.161 , cp. 159.4 ) . |
| 3 | They were far more likely to be concealed in one of the buildings round about and it was here that Owen was concentrating the search . |
| 4 | Even in summer there may be smudges of by now off-white snow or icc to be seen on the slopes round about . |
| 5 | And the people round about would tug at her and shout , ‘ Sit down , Missus ! ’ |
| 6 | The farms round about had had to employ German prisoners for labour , and on the whole they were quite well behaved . |
| 7 | ‘ Mountsorrel is a small place and we generally hear of all the doings round about . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ To take me to Eretz ! he shouted to the empty fields round about . |
| 9 | The streets round about are a meat market ; couples rent by the half-hour — I do n't think many of them are man and wife . ’ |
| 10 | PAMELA : When I did sit in Babylon , The rivers round about , Then in remembrance of Zion , The tears of grief burst out . |
| 11 | The creature looked wilder and woollier than any I 've met in seas round about , its suckered and flock-piled textures giving more chew and less taste than one would have expected . |