Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] round [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing here was that all the flowers were blue — delphiniums and cornflowers and forget me nots round a sundial in the middle of a smooth green velvet lawn . |
| 2 | I dance round the kitchen table , twirling the hat on my hand , so that the ribbons fly out behind it . |
| 3 | I peer round a stack of Hovis loaves and see Stewpid just entering the doors with Simon right behind him , no Jonathan though , slow-footed halfwit . |
| 4 | I cut round the Guildhall , almost taking out a couple of early season French tourists who had n't got the hang of looking left first before they crossed the road , and through on to Moorgate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I walk round the room sort of smiling and sometimes waving or stopping to talk to someone . |
| 7 | I walk round the rocky coast , clambering over many walls , and am baited by three small boys . |
| 8 | I look round the room , but I ca n't find it . |
| 9 | I look round the room quick to make sure it 's neat looking . |
| 10 | I look round the old place ; the window surrounds have been painted , the flower-beds look a bit unkempt . |
| 11 | I look round the room . |
| 12 | I hang round the station a bit , watching the people all hurrying to catch their trains . |
| 13 | I glance round the hall like I 've come to change the wallpaper , thirty years late . |
| 14 | I glanced round a couple of times expecting him to appear through the trees with a mouthful of oaths and a loud ‘ Come on , Boyo ! |
| 15 | I tend to paint very quickly , so the paint is always rather damp as I flit round the paper , putting a colour here and one there , and at first it all looks a bit of a jumble . |
| 16 | … those countries which I could not visit in my proper person , I have so attentively read about , that as I turn round a globe I can almost fancy that I know the appearance and characters of the portions of the great world itself which lie mapped out under my eye , and observe all that is going forward on its surface . |
| 17 | So when I go round the garden , I carry two containers : a bucket for compostable weeds , and a plastic bag for those perennials with tough tools that might survive . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've tried to impress on people - I go round the schools and catch them young — that if they do n't leave us their stuff , uncaring descendants may simply throw out a tool , plate , picture or letter , preferring to have a stainless-steel fork , a plastic plate , a multiple … ’ |
| 19 | I go round the bend just looking after kids all day . |
| 20 | It 's the same when I go round the schools . |
| 21 | I went round a house the other week the kid had been caught shoplifting and the father wanted to fight me . |
| 22 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
| 23 | I wander round the park a bit looking at the trees and stuff . |
| 24 | I pull round the next document on the Treasury tag . |
| 25 | I float round the house — Elizabeth Barrett Lipman . |
| 26 | Two of them came round a while ago and they said , ‘ Our pigeon 's on your roof , miss , can we go up your house and get it down through your loft ? ’ |
| 27 | ALL RYE LIES BEFORE YOU as you sit round a grand , authentic scale model of this ancient town . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But she almost turned and fled as she came round a corner and found herself face to face with Guido . |
| 30 | You make sure he ca n't be seen from the letter flap , which is covered by a sealed box , then you look round the hall . |