Example sentences of "[vb base] round " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hurry round . |
| 2 | If there 's anybody who ca n't fit in here , there are one or two places round here , we you can er flood onto these activities here to start off and then swap round back again . |
| 3 | sleep round here |
| 4 | I could dispense with anything else , everything else , including visits to the tax office which I rarely do except to replace my er brochures and and er things that I send round for information . |
| 5 | The accompanying suggestion that we send round an additional sheet giving dates of events , at least within the area , has been taken up . |
| 6 | He urged employers and trade unions to show restraint in the 1990 wage round . |
| 7 | The next whiz round with the vacuum , oh dear Jackie 's got her new car now , then |
| 8 | She saw his eyes grow round , bewilderment and disbelief on his face . |
| 9 | His trousers bunch round his ankles again , then catch round his boots and disappear over the edge of the chimney , kicking up at the last moment and hitting the grating ; the branch slips and the grating slams down . |
| 10 | At the last minute , enough congressmen rally round to get the package through the House of Representatives : not because they believe in it , but because Mr Clinton has made them an offer they can not refuse , or worse , because they pity him . |
| 11 | Colleagues rally round to help Ann |
| 12 | VETERAN VISITORS RALLY ROUND ! |
| 13 | It is vital for lower-division players in particular that we rally round . ’ |
| 14 | MPs rally round to support Clarke |
| 15 | I 'd grab my jacket , and parcel , then nip round to the customer with it — by foot ( shank 's pony ) . |
| 16 | Just nip round to the supermarket now and stock up on the latest in buffet catering . |
| 17 | And turning to his colleague he said , ‘ Charley , keep an eye on these buggers while I nip round to the station . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Garry , nip round and get the quick for your mother . ’ |
| 19 | If I just nip round to the drawings I 'll just give you an indication of of what exactly we 're , we 're doing . |
| 20 | No one follows , so I come out the other end and nip round the small block . |
| 21 | Once she was gone Bernard and Ellen were able to ask Jed and Prune round for Christmas dinner . |
| 22 | In addition to the flabby growth and increased susceptibility to pests and disease that follows , the visible indications show out as brown patches which spread and coalesce round the leaf edges . |
| 23 | I slip round to where my hand finds the iron handle . |
| 24 | At first the belts slip round the flat pulleys — they 're meant to — but as soon as I squirt the gum they grab and the shafts pick up speed real fast , and the spokes on the pulleys blur and disappear . |
| 25 | We 're the best meal place round 'ere , an' after all 'e used ter call in all the time when 'e 'ad that ovver job , ’ Carrie reminded him . |
| 26 | Interviewer : Can people say round here We go to the movies anymore ? |
| 27 | Washington , Jefferson and six other Virginians besides have led our nation ; so why should n't President Charles Sherman in about thirty-five years ' time — say round about nineteen sixty — be sitting in the White House ? |
| 28 | The larvae can dive straight out of the grains of sand into your skin , and for weeks you itch and get blisters as the larvae spiral round and round just beneath the skin , leaving patterns behind . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm supposed to go in first thing in the mornings too , to light the stoves and dust round . ’ |
| 30 | Fresh flowers , dust round … |