Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] in circle " in BNC.
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1 | And so we went around and around in circles , trying to get some idea of what money would be available , but never succeeding . |
2 | It would be like taking London 's M25 or Washington 's beltway , in the hope of getting somewhere ; all you would do is go round and round in circles . |
3 | A shoal of stout brown fish swam round and round in circles in a ghostly saraband before making their way to the entrance to the stream . |
4 | Daisy , taking advantage of the disturbance , was adding gleefully to the chaos by bleating continuously , and rushing round and round in circles so that her tethering chain was soon shortened to a couple of feet . |
5 | Possibly this is why the argument as to whether it is better for a woman with young children to stay at home or go out to work goes round and round in circles . |
6 | The discussion went round and round in circles as many of the men present refused to face the reality of the issue . |
7 | And instead of heading north he simply went round and round in circles until he was found in Brandon , Suffolk . |
8 | Why do I keep walking round and round in circles ? |
9 | It should not be a series of coded sign-posts that only a small élite can decode and which lead us round and round in circles . |
10 | As it crawls round and round in circles it keeps revisiting the same pebbles . |
11 | and er with my son particularly earlier on in his career things were going round and round in circles and in the end I had to step in at one point , grab all the papers as they came past as they were and saying , come on . |
12 | And it 's raw linseed oil , you dip your you have it in a dish and you dip this pad into the into this dish and you put a little drop of raw linseed oil on that , and you work it in and you go round and round in circles and you you know , I mean , and that 's left . |
13 | And then that makes it even worse because you go round and round in circles , and you know and the more |