Example sentences of "we [verb] round to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember that we got round to talking about historical hindsight , or the kind of attitude to which André Maurois ( to whom I was to introduce Eliot years later ) referred when he imagined a man saying ‘ Gentlemen , we are about to enter upon the Middle Ages ’ . |
| 2 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 3 | Then we got round to Edwin 's death and Francis 's murder . |
| 4 | I done it , I did it all neat and tidy the whole way round till we got round to the door and I says you can do it , no way am I cutting round there big chunk |
| 5 | It was early evening when we wandered round to Fair Hill to see what was going on . |
| 6 | We sailed round to Soufrière . |
| 7 | But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ? |
| 8 | Then he took my hand and we walked round to the cottage . |
| 9 | But a client is a client and he perked up no end as we walked round to Marlowe Road , Lloyd between us and one of the Dennison boys about ten feet ahead acting as an outrider . |
| 10 | When we get round to it . |
| 11 | Now when we get round to this subject this afternoon of fire a lot of people think that fire is a modern invention . |
| 12 | We had just such a function there last Saturday , where the consensus was that making a living was getting a bit easier , that the economy was startling to move forward , and that , by the time we get round to the season of the darling buds of May , the prospects for Her Majesty 's Government might well be ’ perfick , just perfick ’ . |
| 13 | I mean , it 's one of the things I wan na include in our discussion if we get round to it about having more resources available . |
| 14 | We have n't got enough Nice to get some work started on the eighth floor because of the different activities But then again with the activities that are carrying on on the seventh floor we ca n't By the time we get round to the ninth pretty desperate . |
| 15 | Well by the time we get round to getting a new telly . |
| 16 | But it 's er had it we took round to that fella round Dash Hill there well Alec took it and er he said I 'll ring you up in morning and give you an estimate . |
| 17 | ‘ Shall we go round to my place ? ’ said Sam . |
| 18 | Last Sunday we went round to their house for one of their famous Sunday breakfasts — bagels , cream cheese , smoked salmon . |
| 19 | Last night , we went round to Josh — I was making supper for the boys , and your father came with me . |
| 20 | We went round to Rum Cove , the nearest landing place for Ben Gunn 's cave of treasure , then Gray left us there before rowing back to guard the ship for the night . |
| 21 | Yeah I left him one day , we went round to the pub I said do n't open that door there 's a match on fucking Ivy gets a phone call all the windows were put fucking in |
| 22 | Once again , we come round to the payment of the annual subscription . |
| 23 | Well we come round to what happens in a moment to As and Bs . |