Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] round [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a change the weather was fine , and when shortly after midnight the company second in command went round to visit the soldiers in the trenches , he found morale high . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the swordsmen move round to attack the enemy in the sides or to protect the halberdiers against a flanking attack . |
| 3 | With one foot on the platform and the other hovering over the stairwell , I had to draw myself in with real concentration at every stop when the driver came round to unjam the ‘ automatic ’ door . |
| 4 | The other pair of feet moved round to join the pair by the driver 's door … long pause . |
| 5 | had this lady coming round to see the , do you think somebody will buy my Ghostbuster bag ? |
| 6 | When the sales er exec on marketing goes round to contract the surgery to take that product there are two things that are generated . |
| 7 | When er the sales exec for marketing goes round doing the contract bits and pieces er they he or she and the surgery the doctors ' senior partners or all the doctors will agree on the number of booklets we 're going to print . |
| 8 | Grant glanced round to see the clipboards on the wall jingling as if in a breeze . |
| 9 | She ran as hard as she could across the muddy field , across the rickety bridge , and finally collapsed beyond the line of oaks where the stream curved round to mark the boundary of the colonel 's property . |
| 10 | Robert wheeled round to see the bearing face of Mr Mafouz . |
| 11 | ‘ Thanks , but I was coming up to meet you , ’ she said , as Vitor came round to open the passenger door . |
| 12 | Midnight spun round to see the other — broad and stunted — lower his massive head and ram it into James Lambert 's stomach . |
| 13 | Minutes later as neighbours rallied round to help the nursing home worker an ambulance arrived to take her to hospital . |
| 14 | There are no bureaucrats going round counting the jobs that never happened , the jobs that went away or the small firms that have packed up because they could no longer make a profit under the new controls and restrictions on their work force . |
| 15 | Appalled at herself , Virginia spun round to face the other girl , read the anguished look in the charcoal eyes . |
| 16 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The dealers , exporters and wholesalers walking round inspecting the produce , discussing prices , negotiating ; the hangers-on standing about in groups smoking , chatting ; the market police and official inspectors strolling round seeing that all is in order . |
| 19 | One of the orderlies came round closing the shutters . |
| 20 | And e every week the admiralty had a clerk of works going round watching the progress . |
| 21 | The is the point where the cliff swings round to form the dramatic and much less amenable territory of the south face — home to a number of spectacular routes . |
| 22 | There 's this man on this big white car thing going round cleaning the floor . |
| 23 | Now imagine the small hand on 10 both clocks is held at 3 and the large hand brought round to meet the small hand . |
| 24 | Initially Roy Porter chased hard in his Westfield , but when the pair came round to lap the Metro class for the first time , Porter fell foul of the squabbling saloons and dropped back . |
| 25 | I was really amazed at the people every time going round spoke the chair |
| 26 | With a passion , she realised now as every defence she had ever had fell away from her , and she felt the hatred swing round to reveal the love , deep and very passionate indeed . |