Example sentences of "round [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood there , shouting along and flapping his arms round like an over-excited seagull . |
| 2 | Our father , Fa , was an agent for India 's Inland Navigation so that we ( our mother , Mam , my three sisters , Jon , Nancy and Rose , and I ) lived on the banks of Assam 's and Bengal 's great rivers , sometimes two miles wide , flowing through land so flat that it seemed to meet the sky all round like an inverted bowl . |
| 3 | If suffering a ropey marriage automatically led to that sort of state of grace , half the women in the country would be walking round with an outsize halo above their head . |
| 4 | Growing usually at a height of between I –0 to I 60 metres the vineyards curve round from an eastern to south-eastern aspect , and climb on to higher ground towards the edge of the Bois de Cormont . |
| 5 | There was n't much to look at , though for once the sky was clear ; gulls were drifting round and round in an uneasy crowd , hardly making a sound , like scraps of newspaper spiralling in the wind . |
| 6 | Here he is , the brightest young Fellow of King 's or All Souls , being led round in an invisible collar and chain by my freckled colleague . |
| 7 | Or is he to allow her to rest her left forearm on his right and to guide her round in an elegant mazurka — leading her , as it were , from the shoulder so that she always moves just in front of him ? |
| 8 | He called on all his strength and brought the Sword of Khaine round in an enormous arc of death . |
| 9 | In Braque 's Still Life with Musical Instruments , painted in the autumn of 1908 , the neck of the mandolin is bent round to an exaggerated degree , so that the top and underneath of it are visible simultaneously . |
| 10 | He felt only sorry for him and sure that , if they could stay alone together for a while , Fiver would come round to an easier state of mind . |
| 11 | Similarly a London fireman 's widow sent her daughters round to an old lady after school . |