Example sentences of "got round " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Really , ’ he said , ‘ never got round to that club myself . |
| 2 | The message got round and it got round Haddon Hall like wildfire that I wanted David Bowie to be a cabaret star . |
| 3 | Plenty of housing if those stupid farts at the council got round to repairing it and stopped their tenants tearing apart what they have got . |
| 4 | All the evidence suggests that she had her confessor wrapped around her little finger : while claiming the complete obedience appropriate to her spiritual supervisor she in fact got round every attempt he ever made to make her moderate her life style ; she persuaded him to confer his blessing and approval on her choices . |
| 5 | I was seriously considering going to India to become a monk but I never got round to it ! ’ |
| 6 | They got round this by not telling their husbands until it was too late . |
| 7 | I got round this potential danger of tonal contrasts by ensuring that I was near enough to the boat to see it mainly in its own shadows ( figure XX ) , thus reducing the glare of white , and thereby allowing a less contrasting tonal interplay between boat and background . |
| 8 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 9 | Biddy switched Jazz to Midnight , and Jazz got round all right . |
| 10 | ‘ I got round — but it was painful , ’ Martin told the Herald on Monday . |
| 11 | It was really only a matter of time before a label as enterprising as Marco Polo got round to unearthing Max von Schillings ( 1868–1933 ) . |
| 12 | The Liberal government never actually got round to reform . |
| 13 | And in the camera , when police eventually got round to checking , were 17 pictures of the last hours of their lives . |
| 14 | Then the men got round to the subject of politics . |
| 15 | FIRST Millwall won the war — then they got round to winning this brutal but utterly compelling match at The Den . |
| 16 | ‘ But we never got round to discussing Andrew and me . ’ |
| 17 | HOUSEBUILDER Sir Lawrie Barratt lowered interest rates long before the Chancellor got round to it . |
| 18 | Peter got round to me and said ‘ sorry son , I 've forgotten who you are . ’ |
| 19 | Late on the Saturday evening , in the glow which follows a good dinner and good wines , four of us , all old acquaintances , were sitting at a table in the lounge talking — inevitably — about birds , and the conversation got round to places we would like to visit . |
| 20 | The Americans were actually behind us in discovering the importance of preventive and rehabilitative services , but when they got round to looking for permanence for children in care their strategy was a combined one of permanence with natural families and permanence with new families . |
| 21 | He got round in par figures , but was obviously playing from memory . |
| 22 | I 'm an individual member , perhaps I 've done , got round to opening the . |
| 23 | Newcomen got round this difficulty by fitting a leather skirt on top of the piston , this being kept supple by filling it up with water . |
| 24 | It was not for some time , and after some acquaintance , that she got round to thinking that one of the most charming features of Clelia 's room was its sense of prolonged nursery associations . |
| 25 | " He got round my mother . |
| 26 | I still do n't know how word got round so fast . |
| 27 | And they continued to discuss the personality of Lady Henrietta , or rather her apparent lack of personality , for some time , until Alix , almost as an afterthought , got round to enquiring how Liz was taking it . |
| 28 | That the magazine never got round to asking who might be the ‘ Sports Writers ' Sports Writer ’ seems like an act of wilful self-effacement , given that the overwhelming winner would have been their own man , Hugh McIlvanney . |
| 29 | There are one or two questions we never got round to . ’ |
| 30 | I had a busy day and it was after six o'clock before I got round to The Laurels . |