Example sentences of "go round the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , you have n't mentioned going round the brewery there then ? |
| 2 | So if this is the sun here the earth here the moon goes round the earth whilst the earth is going round the sun . |
| 3 | Right now as you are going round the sun so the moon is going round you . |
| 4 | how many times does the moon go round the earth whilst the earth is going round the sun ? |
| 5 | Head : ‘ Much of what we 're discussing is going round the roundabout for the second time . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm going round the pub , ’ said Charles . |
| 7 | He 'd spend half-an-hour with me and another going round the machines , talking to the men . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's going round the twist , ’ thought Marie . |
| 9 | But there he was , going round the flower shop , accompanied by this assistant who 's picking out great armfuls of flowers . |
| 10 | Going round the gallery , I met Viscount and Viscountess Slim , and the Earl and Countess of Gainsborough , who were all most interested in the paintings . |
| 11 | The departments involved must now look closely at the stated objectives and work out how they will discharge their responsibilities , going round the loop until there is agreement that this can be done . |
| 12 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 13 | I keep going round the painting seeing extra bits that need to be emphasised , or perhaps to blend in too start a line . |
| 14 | Oh they 're going round the bay are they ? |
| 15 | We spent a morning going round the Coaltown museum which gave an excellent presentation of the coal-mining industry which used to be the life-blood of the Coast . |
| 16 | There 's a certain amount of history because the moon is if if the earth is spinning round the moon is going round the water that the moon is attracting will be rushing to catch up a little bit . |
| 17 | Although it was very rough at first , but I got used with it even when the seasickness caught me up going round the top of the highland , but once he was away from that and er I was n't a drinker in these days but some old man says to me , er before you go to a meal , he says , take a drop of brandy . |
| 18 | Let all the damn horses out — I 've spent all morning going round the lanes rounding the brutes up again ! ‘ |
| 19 | Chief Supt Strange , once a likeable fusspot , seems to be going round the bend , and Morse got the answer wrong a whole reel before the end . |
| 20 | I 'm going round the bend . ’ |
| 21 | McQueen was accompanied on location by Ali MacGraw , whom he had met on The Getaway , and whose presence he admitted saved him from going round the bend . |
| 22 | If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend . |
| 23 | But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay . |
| 24 | Her safety-valve , the thing that prevented her from going round the bend , was the fun of devising and dishing out these splendid punishments , and the lovely thing was that they seemed to work , at any rate for short periods . |
| 25 | I can see that I 'm going to have to expel as many of you as possible as soon as possible to save myself from going round the bend . ’ |
| 26 | Now there 're the lorries , and the see the N F T just up there going round the bend . |
| 27 | They want a haven for a few days to talk to some neutral listener while they conquer an impending sense of ‘ going round the bend ’ . |
| 28 | His wife is going round the bend , thinking he 's under suspicion , but I 'm sure she 's barking up the wrong tree . |
| 29 | When I got in the pool it was very cold , going round the edge . |
| 30 | Osgood gives considerable regard and space to a paper by Brown and Voth ( 1937 ) on apparent movement , in which an experiment is described where four lights disposed at the corners of a square are flashed on and off successively , going round the square . |