Example sentences of "around to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before that , I recognised the building under the trees , de luxe bedroom suites now , but still the same structure , on the left-hand side of the drive , just before the sweep around to the hotel steps : ‘ The stables which formed part of the rectangle of low buildings out of which that archway to the henyard led , had long been disused but somebody swept them now and then , dusted the curved metal hay racks , wiped manger and woodwork and shone the brass tethering rings so brightly than whenever we pushed a door open and looked into the dusky twilight we were welcomed by a small round gleam of light . ’ |
| 2 | He looked apologetic. ‘ … since nightfall , the wind has backed around to the south , with sea swells of some ten to fifteen feet . |
| 3 | MRS Thatcher 's friends tell me that she has finally come around to the idea of going to the Lords after the election . |
| 4 | Owen never repeated this claim in the pre-Darwinian era , but liberal theologians such as the Oxford mathematician and philosopher Baden Powell began to come around to the idea of ‘ designed evolution ’ during the 1850s . |
| 5 | After ringing the bell several times she reluctantly pushed her husband 's letter through the letter-box — he had very meanly sealed it before she could read it — and took the holdall around to the boiler room at the back of the house . |
| 6 | I picked up my fags and the bag of grass from near the campfire and motioned her around to the driver 's door . |
| 7 | Dr Sasaki shouted the name of the chief surgeon and rushed around to the man 's office and found him terribly cut by glass . |
| 8 | Yanto went around to the back of the cottage where the ‘ lean to ’ lavatory was situated , it 's door almost inaccessible because of a loganberry bush . |
| 9 | They all walked around to the back of the coach and waited for the driver to open the boot for them . |
| 10 | He moved around to the back of the house , and then ducked in to the laneway that ran behind it . |
| 11 | Diane was just thinking that she 'd go around to the back and see how the Venetz sisters were getting along with the buffet , when somebody moved in and stood beside her ; Pete McCarthy , wearing a more-or-less new jacket and a pleasant smile , his tie already undone . |
| 12 | I crept around to the back of the house and watched as he carried her through the kitchen and into the garage . |
| 13 | Swim clear of all the ropes , swim around to the back of the boat , pull the daggerboard down and then simply flip the boat upright again . |
| 14 | A little later this Mexican boy who worked for us took Russell 's horse around to the stable . |
| 15 | Another important factor is the shelter belt which protects the garden from the south all the way around to the north . |
| 16 | The woodland , marching up the hill , vanished before it but reached an arm around to the west , fringing the road , and then ran behind it to the north , forming a long backdrop to the palm house and the terraces . |
| 17 | Not only does a tower provide a landmark , alerting everyone for miles around to the presence of the brewery , it also provides the brewery with a trademark , though on the printed version the mill has acquired the adornment of four sales — historically inaccurate but more symmetrical ! |
| 18 | He 's been a little funkateer since ‘ 85 , but he used to come around to the Bootsy Collins Rubber Band shows back in ‘ 75 and ‘ 76 . |
| 19 | At one school during a parents ' coffee morning the conversation drifted around to the subject to school uniform . |
| 20 | Which brings us neatly around to the subject of this report . |
| 21 | Finally , the conversation came back around to the subject of Alina 's new job . |
| 22 | Anyway it would be interesting to learn just at what point he would get around to the subject of Rob . |
| 23 | It somewhat shook me rigid , and through my colleague , Peggy who received a gold award this week , we got some of those leaflets , that were sent to us , and Peggy wrote a letter , around to the workplaces in Grimsby and Cleethorpes , and as a role , as trade union liaison officer with Grimsby C L P , she sent it to the workplaces within Grimsby . |
| 24 | And as soon as they 'd finished questioning the Tomorrowman 's barman about the beer mat heist , they 'd get around to the rest . |
| 25 | After the game I went around to the dressingroom to try and meet the players . |
| 26 | She zipped up her anorak and began to work her way around to the sergeant 's face . |
| 27 | There are very limited changes this time around to the Frontera range . |
| 28 | She 's writing a children 's book , erm , well she 's written one , and it 's going around to the publishers and she 's written or she 's writing a second . |
| 29 | Follow the forest paths around to the left to posts 45 and 44 then back to post 43 and along the road back to the visitor centre . |
| 30 | At the bottom of Grafton Street , the driver swung around to the left into College Green . |