Example sentences of "came round " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came round to my side , stood beside me for a while , looking , puffing . |
| 2 | She came round for dinner one evening . |
| 3 | As soon as the gentleman came round from the stables on his horse , the lad pelted down town and across the building sites to alert the men . |
| 4 | Jean felt belittled ; for as long as the dance lasted she seemed no more to him than any girl there , but then he came round to her again and clasped her closely as they stepped it down the aisle between the lines of dancers . |
| 5 | If you — the audience — came round to my place , this is the sort of evening we 'd have . ’ |
| 6 | Next thing his sister , about 13 or so , came round . |
| 7 | When I came round I felt much better and I turned my back on the lake and went home . |
| 8 | So we did n't think much of it as a name at first but while Malcolm was away in the States , we somehow came round to it and decided to go with it . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's why I came round , ’ Bodo said . |
| 10 | He stepped back onto the concrete and came round to the front of the building where the flowering cherries were just coming into bud on the lawn . |
| 11 | Entering the competition was entirely Barbara 's idea and when the phone call came through to say they 'd won , Betty was quite shocked to discover that she , too , was going to London to have a makeover — but she soon came round to the idea ! |
| 12 | When he came round he saw the side of the train had been ripped open . |
| 13 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 14 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |
| 15 | She did not , however , think it any more ridiculous than any other memorial chapel , but she was glad Christopher had not seen it , and hoped Flora would not mention it when they came round . |
| 16 | In any case , Darren might notice if he came round . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I SAW YOUR GIRLFRIEND , ’ FLORA SAID WHEN THE EARLY-MORNING tea came round . |
| 18 | I came round here special to tell you . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm glad you came round , though . |
| 20 | ‘ Gazzer came round this morning . |
| 21 | Somewhere in the ward a bell rang , once : ten minutes to go before the nurses came round and chucked out all the visitors . |
| 22 | She told Clarissa to stay put and say no more until she herself came round to Clarissa 's flat . |
| 23 | But Dawn Run was not a horse to give in meekly , and as the four came round into the straight she stuck resolutely to her guns . |
| 24 | One day the social worker from the hospital came round to see if Mary was all right . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , ’ she said , ‘ a friend came round and asked me to go with her … |
| 26 | Car lights came round a bend from that direction and seemed not to be travelling too fast . |
| 27 | At the Gloucester Forest Eyre in July 1634 he produced perambulations of 1228 and 1282 , ‘ both agreeing that the Bounds of the Forrest [ of Dean ] began at Gloucester Bridge , and so went to Monmouth Bridge and Chepstow Bridge , and came round again by the Severne to Gloucester . ’ |
| 28 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 29 | ‘ Chap came round to the Palladium one night , said we could be in it if we liked , only there was no money , just publicity . |
| 30 | When the 10th anniversary came round , it was claimed that the incident was invented by the nasty Tory press . |