Example sentences of "[vb base] round the [noun] " 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 | A walk round the streets of Coalbrookdale and its former satellites — Ironbridge ( q.v . ) , |
8 | If we walk round the towns and villages we will not find the acquisitiveness and competitiveness of modernity . |
9 | Walk round the lake to the foot of the Cat Bells ridge ( 3.5 miles ) . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | I walk round the room sort of smiling and sometimes waving or stopping to talk to someone . |
12 | Because the only way you do your job is to get on your honkers and walk round the pipelines and know where everything is and which are polluters , and which ones go up and down . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Sail round the world , like Francis Drake . ’ |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Cut round the outline . |
19 | Cut round the outline through the double thickness of paper and open out . |
20 | Cut round the design through the double thickness of paper . |
21 | It has been estimated that over 10,000 duck of fifteen different species breed round the margins and islands of the lake , as well as whooper swans , great northern and red-throated divers , Slavonian grebes and greylag geese . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | I glance round the hall like I 've come to change the wallpaper , thirty years late . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Men huddle round the car , removing what look like dark , limp sacks of potatoes from within it . |
26 | 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 ? |
27 | ‘ This is the time I normally ride round the hacienda . |
28 | Waves ignore frontiers and time-zones as they echo round the world . |
29 | I hang round the station a bit , watching the people all hurrying to catch their trains . |
30 | I just hang round the entrance and wait for her . |