Example sentences of "[verb] round the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the flabby growth and increased susceptibility to pests and disease that follows , the visible indications show out as brown patches which spread and coalesce round the leaf edges . |
| 2 | Inside , the 'heads skip round the arena with bells on their ankles , and wave fluorescent plastic tubes in the air — but sadly , tonight the Grateful Dead never manage to make it past the mildly interesting stage . |
| 3 | Inside , the 'heads skip round the arena with bells on their ankles , and wave fluorescent plastic tubes in the air — but sadly , tonight the Grateful Dead never manage to make it past the mildly interesting stage . |
| 4 | We 've only just flipped off the radio when two tons of suede appear round the side of the building . |
| 5 | Let's say Vargas has picked one of them up in one of those pubs the soldiers frequent round the Tower . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We walk round the building and they are introduced to any members of staff around . |
| 7 | Walk round the lake to the foot of the Cat Bells ridge ( 3.5 miles ) . |
| 8 | As I walk round the croft I can feel a strange sensation in my stomach , a feeling not unlike fear , and I now know that she is dead . |
| 9 | I walk round the room sort of smiling and sometimes waving or stopping to talk to someone . |
| 10 | While you can buy a 50p leaflet and walk round the town yourself , looking for the small metal footsteps that have been placed in significant sites , it 's much more rewarding to go with one of the town 's Cadfael experts , like Esme Green . |
| 11 | These are the leather straps you put round the bird 's legs to hold it on the glove that you have to wear when you handle birds of prey . |
| 12 | Sail round the world , like Francis Drake . ’ |
| 13 | Carefully they cut round the base with a knife , to free any wax that was sealing it down , and eased the skep up off the base stone . |
| 14 | Cut round the outline . |
| 15 | Cut round the outline through the double thickness of paper and open out . |
| 16 | Cut round the design through the double thickness of paper . |
| 17 | As she walked down the wide stone steps to the ground floor her confusion was diverted by the sight of two men in their twenties , chatting together and keeping a watchful early evening eye over two three-year-olds playing hide and seek round the curve of the banisters . |
| 18 | I glance round the hall like I 've come to change the wallpaper , thirty years late . |
| 19 | Within this encircling road , lie a series of superb brown trout and sea-trout lochs : Scadavay , with shores that meander round the moor for a distance of more than fifty miles ; full of fishy points and promontories , reputed to contain 365 islands . |
| 20 | Men huddle round the car , removing what look like dark , limp sacks of potatoes from within it . |
| 21 | Did she imagine it or did a head of bronze curls pop round the door , and were a pair of peacock-blue eyes gazing at her with implacable hatred ? |
| 22 | ‘ This is the time I normally ride round the hacienda . |
| 23 | Waves ignore frontiers and time-zones as they echo round the world . |
| 24 | I hang round the station a bit , watching the people all hurrying to catch their trains . |
| 25 | I just hang round the entrance and wait for her . |
| 26 | Many suppliers have open days or roadshows that travel round the country . |
| 27 | Now they plan to take a year off and travel round the world , like their friend Nick Blunden , who 's come home from his travels , unloading a sackful of memories . |
| 28 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 29 | I looked up in time to see him place his cap on his head and look round the kitchen , patting his pockets as he did so . |
| 30 | I go upstairs and softly look round the door of my son 's bedroom . |