Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] round " in BNC.
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| 1 | you can get th I 've seen people spend sort of quite a few minutes going round in circles and give up on that when they 're nearly at the answer . |
| 2 | This cars turned round even to go out the bottom of there 's been an accident oh . |
| 3 | This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April . |
| 4 | ‘ Spoken like a true woman , ’ said Dr Neil , staring at the board , empty save for a few pieces clustered round a pair of kings in one corner . |
| 5 | Actually the tea shop benefited slightly , because we 'd introduced a new line of rock cakes that week , and some rioters came round to buy them to throw at middle class people . ’ |
| 6 | Erm , I 'll have some brochures going around , some leaflets going round just advertizing what we do but if , I 'd like to just mention to you that erm , there are other , other treatments that we do , of course , at the salon . |
| 7 | Like I suppose really yo you do get these blokes whipping round and these |
| 8 | Darlington mirrors the national picture with more housing applicants and fewer homes to go round . |
| 9 | Very fashionable about a year and a half ago again , because all these things come round again do n't they ? |
| 10 | Well the shadow of these wheels going round like that , this is what we learnt , al that 's what I learnt anyway , shadow going round like that keep marking on the walls and the sun do n't they ? |
| 11 | By some plasma mechanism intense coherent beams of radiation are produced along the magnetic axis ; these beams swing round like searchlights as the neutron star rotates . |
| 12 | At the far end of the field , by the gate , there was a group of small cows , and as Clara and Walter approached , these cows turned round to face them . |
| 13 | If we embrace in our calculation those civilizations that had radio technology 1,000 years ago , there will be something like a million stars within radio range ( together with however many planets circle round each one of them ! . |
| 14 | That night many hyenas howled round our camp . |
| 15 | So many thoughts twisting round , it made her quite giddy . |
| 16 | Where would he be when those hours came round again ? |
| 17 | Susan Stranks competed with Reg Varney to get those hormones whizzing round your Brutus Oxford bag hot pants . |
| 18 | Several more ladies looked round sharply at the tea table , as Mrs Frizzell tried to snatch her purchases back . |
| 19 | With so many colleges there simply were not enough funds to go round : a twelve year survey ( 1890–1901 ) of the Baptist colleges shows that of eighty-five annual budgets for which there is full evidence , fifty-five had over-spent . |
| 20 | In one refugee centre in Bosnia there are n't enough shoes to go round . |
| 21 | ‘ There are n't enough places to go round , ’ he said ruefully , ‘ and I 'm not that good . |
| 22 | There are simply not enough resources to go round . ’ |
| 23 | Carole said that she always brought everything including the kitchen sink because she 'd stayed in the past in basecamps where there had n't even been enough mattresses to go round ; one in South Wales had been a wooden hut with gas lights and a fridge half a mile away . |
| 24 | If they start too early there are not enough caterpillars to go round , but if they start too late the caterpillars can be toxic . |
| 25 | He was left apologizing for not having enough wives to go round . |
| 26 | Charles was left apologizing for not having enough wives to go round . |
| 27 | At the last minute , enough congressmen rally round to get the package through the House of Representatives : not because they believe in it , but because Mr Clinton has made them an offer they can not refuse , or worse , because they pity him . |
| 28 | The first sailing from the port after midnight on the New Year was taken as the official start of the Single Market ; the first piece of freight on board was actually an unidentified light van and trailer — the driver no doubt blissfully unaware that he had made history — which , along with several vehicles turning round from the inbound convoy , sneaked back on board the 01.00 return sailing of the Pride of Kent while the official welcoming party was still in progress at the other end of the port . |
| 29 | well I did n't used to , I used to have one A at the beginning but of course , it was impractical because the there were n't enough booklets to go round . |
| 30 | There were hardly enough chairs to go round . |