Example sentences of "he round the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , nobody seemed anxious to chair him round the hall , or anywhere . |
| 2 | Sometimes he fell in a landslide on Finn , clouting him round the head over the dinner table when Finn 's insouciant insolence went too far . |
| 3 | I was going to wash the pots I 'll go and smack him round the head |
| 4 | I tell you , one night , if we knew he was coming , we would wait for him round the back and pitch him down the falls ! ’ |
| 5 | This time Midnight moved aside and grasping him round the back of the neck as he passed , flung him headlong into the gathering crowd . |
| 6 | ‘ Come on , ’ said Felicity , and led him round the back of the house and through a herb-garden into a large modern kitchen . |
| 7 | I read somewhere that Charlton chased him round the goal for this , is that true ? ? |
| 8 | We very much wanted him to come down to Merstham again when the weather was better , so that we could drive him round the country . |
| 9 | His feet wearily repeat the old pattern , dragging him round the dance floor in a last slow spin . |
| 10 | At a personal level , AT2 said that she now found the Head 's attitude much pleasanter when she met him round the school . |
| 11 | Luke 's features seemed to reshape themselves momentarily , his expression become one of savage anger , and he had taken the first step of the few that would bring him round the desk to her before she saw him drag control back to himself . |
| 12 | As I knelt , I put Kaptan in front of me , holding him round the waist , my chin on his shoulder . |
| 13 | He was about to skip past me and hit the bomb with the piece of wood — he had already raised it above his head and made the lunge — when I reached out and caught him round the waist . |
| 14 | I flew at him ripping all the buttons off his shirt in one go , tore it off his back in two pieces , grabbed hold of his string vest and dragged him round the kitchen like a sack of potatoes . |
| 15 | Then , at 1.30 , walk him round the village . |
| 16 | So he walked him round the beat until the sergeant found him . |
| 17 | Instead of walking him round the beat , he should have taken him straight to the police station . |
| 18 | Hurriedly she took a fresh grip on Adam and pulled him round the side of a broken column , out of sight . |
| 19 | Carrying their scene-of-crime cases , Dalgliesh and Massingham followed him round the side of the house . |
| 20 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |
| 21 | I swam hard and caught up with him round the corner of the old castle . |
| 22 | You hear him round the corner , |
| 23 | The Prince rose and waved him round the table to the chair next to his before serving them both with the best wine the clerk had tasted in months . |
| 24 | Damiani senior maintained a chauffeur to take him round the family olive groves . |
| 25 | A waitress picked him up and took him round the restaurant . |
| 26 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 27 | Or how they had inflicted cuts with a small sharp knife , then sprinkled salt into the wounds and kicked him round the room so he had to twist sharply and feel the pain of the salt crystals in the raw open flesh . |
| 28 | He plunged for the side , but with three swift strokes Nails caught up with him and collared him round the neck . |
| 29 | This seems to suggest an assailant unknown to him coming up behind him with a weapon in the right hand , holding him round the neck with the left arm ( fabric traces in the teeth ) to prevent him shouting . |
| 30 | Another guard , Wilfred Lane , said he had decided to have a go at the robber , by grabbing him round the neck and catching hold of his gun hand . |