Example sentences of "[verb] round for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when a cabinet minister he found time to write round for subscriptions for the Birmingham Unionists and to attend their routine meetings . |
| 2 | I could dispense with anything else , everything else , including visits to the tax office which I rarely do except to replace my er brochures and and er things that I send round for information . |
| 3 | Looks round for escape from this man who is obviously a few co-ordinates short of a bearing , and starts to back away slowly . |
| 4 | Once she was gone Bernard and Ellen were able to ask Jed and Prune round for Christmas dinner . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , with some help from Moxie , ( the ‘ daily ’ who sometimes ‘ helped out ’ was still afraid of infection ) Franca continued to run the house , to shop , to clean , to organise , to feed a sick man , to feed her husband , and entertain , as necessary , Alison , Irina , Gildas , Ludens , the doctor , Jerry , Sidney , Barry , Ned , and one or two of Jack 's painter friends who , now that Pat was recovering , had decided to come round for drinks . |
| 6 | When I came round for coffee . |
| 7 | Anne , what a lovely story , although it was n't very lovely , was it , when Aunty May came round for Christmas , and inflicted herself upon the whole family , with her own particular brand of misery ? |
| 8 | She came round for dinner one evening . |
| 9 | Looking round for Blackberry , he saw that he had left them and was up at the top of the pool , where the narrow beach tailed away into a gravel spit . |
| 10 | He found himself looking round for Slater as she put one hand on the mantelpiece and slipped her shoe back on , fastening the strap again . |
| 11 | ‘ Where 's that ole thing ? ’ said Tom , looking round for Sammy . |
| 12 | He rose up on tiptoe , looking round for James , Allan , and the rest . |
| 13 | His cousin , Francis Drake , who had also been among the survivors of San Juan de Ulloa , took a more aggressive attitude to the Spanish empire ; as an uncompromising Protestant he felt that his country ought to be at war with Spain and , if it would not do this , he would fight on his own account , looking round for people prepared to invest in a private attack on the wealth of Spain . |
| 14 | Gazzer got up hastily , looking round for Marie . |
| 15 | We quickly found that few places would let us play so we started looking round for alternatives . |
| 16 | Howard meets Phil Schaffer in various pubs , down there in the sea of lights — Phil knows the city intimately already — and they walk round for hours , talking and yawning and doing joky things . |
| 17 | I could search round for papers on it . |
| 18 | I dare n't look round for fear I should see |
| 19 | As a matter of fact a fre fellow named lived in here and he was a traveller to er George he 's one of the best , biggest rim lockmakers in the town , anyway , they 're on this erm now and er he was going round for orders for regulars of his , for his firm and somebody , one day , asked him look here , we 've got a little awkward job here , you know anybody the can you do it ? |
| 20 | ‘ Does that mean — ? ’ he grinned round for approval . |
| 21 | And she said oh Vicky goes in the afternoons too , d' you fancy coming round for lunch after you drop Oliver off on Wednesday . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's a chap — he 's been coming round for years going on and on at me about buying the table . |
| 23 | Right paper coming round for people who are ready to copy the questions out . |
| 24 | Cabinet members were tight-lipped and unsmiling as they emerged from Downing Street , but MPs were convinced that it had been a stormy session , with ministers bitterly fighting their corners in what has been described as the most stringent public spending round for years . |
| 25 | ‘ Look … ’ she began in a cool voice , glancing round for Tara , who seemed to have disappeared into the house , ‘ when I used the phrase ‘ playing gooseberry ’ , I was referring to my staying at Hummingbird House . |
| 26 | At gate at top ( turn round for view of Castle Howard ) turn left on road past Coneysthorpe hamlet ( d ) and back to start . |
| 27 | You see when Jane Pargeter told me , I suddenly looked round for Nicola at the party . |
| 28 | She looked round for approbation at this feat of memory but there was none . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sorry if it did n't provide a job for you , ’ he said , relieved , and looked round for Amanda , who had used the surface tension of the moment to walk away . |
| 30 | He looked round for Catherine and found she had vanished . |