Example sentences of "thing round " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , there is still the feeling that Mrs Doyle and her team , in spite of a lingering recession , could succeed in turning things round . |
| 2 | You 've got a golf course , you 've got quite a few things round here , you 've even , you 've got your school just a bit , you know up past . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps the ancient fairies are looking after things round here . ’ |
| 4 | I want the Liberal Democrats to play a major part , both in Britain and in Europe , to turning things round . |
| 5 | If I just knew where he was prepared to stand and then could just sort of do the things round about . |
| 6 | And in a vain attempt to make Williams jump he said , ‘ I rather think we may have to tighten up on one or two things round here . ’ |
| 7 | And only yards and horses stables and things round there you know , in them days . |
| 8 | Thought we 'd play a little er different version this morning , just to er change things round a bit , but the message is the same . |
| 9 | Yeah another thing that that old folk use I know that my granny used to say she 'll say she 'll turn things round she 'll say , I 'm having nothing with it to do , instead of , I 'm no having anything to do with it . |
| 10 | But if I get the right sort of backing I 'm sure we can turn things round . |
| 11 | ‘ But nobody plays badly on purpose and with a very hard spell coming up , we just have to dig in and hope we can turn things round . ’ |
| 12 | We are doing our damnedest to get the coal up and turn things round . ’ |
| 13 | You know , because they 're the few main things round here , you 're happy , and you can feel that obviously you , you 'll be working for something . |
| 14 | Snoopy that 's not the way you pass things round , it is ? |
| 15 | Once upon a time you used to have a five year planning period , and that has now disappeared , so we live hand to mouth , and the Finance Officer manages marvellously in juggling things round , but one can no longer plan as one used to , and therefore it 's rather sad really , because people no longer have the chance to develop things as they would wish to . |
| 16 | If there was flies and rats over every dead thing round here , we 'd have a bigger problem than what we 've got . ’ |
| 17 | Oh er , if you put , if you put if you put wrought iron gates gates decorated type of thing round there |
| 18 | Right bring the tin round here and I 'll find you a pencil right , now bring your Snow White thing round , that 's the best one to use , right |
| 19 | But then in seventy nine we had a hit at home with Bunch of Time and that as far as we were concerned was the end of the road you know to be successful in Ireland and then late eighty one , early eighty two you know they started playing Bunch of Time over here and it became a top twenty hit for us and that you know changed the whole thing round about and got us from say the pubs in Ireland into the concert circuit in England which we 've been doing ever since . |
| 20 | I 've managed to erm , the first time we went skiing is when we lived in the States , we went to like , er , not dry ski slopes there , but it was like false snow , that 's the same as you erm , they were really , was like eleven years ago , sort of like , technology had n't quite advanced terribly much , you know , and these bindings , you had like , metal clips on the bottom of your boots , and you had to put the thing in and clip the boot , clip the thing round on the skis , to keep your boot on the ski , right , it was n't like toe clips where you shove your foot , |
| 21 | no , no it hurts I 've turned thing round , I put it there |
| 22 | The next thing round is the church . |