Example sentences of "[verb] round [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those who can not get down into a bath at all ( as is the case with many back-sufferers and arthritics ) , a shower fitment at one end of the bath , with nylon shower-proof curtains to pull round inside the bath , is one of the best answers . |
| 2 | Under the old community the harvest was the climax of the rural year , not merely an incident in the more mechanical and depersonalized round on the farm as it has become today . |
| 3 | It is understood that most of the Sun 's employees , including vice presidents , have come round to the idea of embracing Motif in some shape or form , but there remains one unswerving voice . |
| 4 | SOCIAL ‘ Sociologists apparently have come round to the belief that 50 per cent of middle-class parents who send their children to private schools would be happy to put them in the state system if dinner money was renamed lunch money . ’ |
| 5 | Although primarily Unix focused , Unify has now come round to the view that the success of Windows and probable success of NT can not be ignored . |
| 6 | However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced . |
| 7 | Having read some of the recent articles on the Batty move in parallel with ‘ What happened to ex-players , I have come round to the view that Batty was probably right to move . |
| 8 | The doctor said the driver should have come round from the anaesthetic by now . ’ |
| 9 | The next whiz round with the vacuum , oh dear Jackie 's got her new car now , then |
| 10 | It was then that the wind changed round to the north-west and the first , and worst , of the storms hit the Flamingo . |
| 11 | She dropped down and started groping round on the floor as the bus sped down the long hill into town . |
| 12 | And turning to his colleague he said , ‘ Charley , keep an eye on these buggers while I nip round to the station . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd grab my jacket , and parcel , then nip round to the customer with it — by foot ( shank 's pony ) . |
| 14 | Just nip round to the supermarket now and stock up on the latest in buffet catering . |
| 15 | He was too clever not to realize that harbouring the Shah increased the danger of Muslim fundamentalism gaining round in the kingdom . |
| 16 | She pushed the gate further open and peered round in the twilight . |
| 17 | Nor were the financial departments in France and Germany in any way independent of the royal household , even though in the nature of things the royal treasury could not be carried round with the king on his travels in quite the way in which the relics were . |
| 18 | They can be carried round in the pocket and referred to frequently — on the bus , while taking the dog for a walk , while shaving , almost anywhere . |
| 19 | I stayed at the Cove watching cloud shadows racing across the great limestone cliffs until the sun moved round to the west when it was time to race the old ladies back to the village for the tea and scones of Beck Hall . |
| 20 | He moved round to the front of the stall , pulling McAllister with him . |
| 21 | It was only when he moved round to the side that he saw the blue , chapped ears and the hair , frozen and brittle , as if you could snap it off . |
| 22 | Laura moved round to the side of the kiln — it was a roughly built cube of fire-bricks the colour of pale sand , with a bricked-up Norman door-arch on one side and a narrow throat at the rear which led to a tall , cast-iron stovepipe wired for support to the studio wall and a bough of a late-flowering cherry tree across the yard . |
| 23 | Satisfied that his aim was correct he moved round to the side of the golf-bag . |
| 24 | She moved round behind the crowd to look at his face . |
| 25 | Magee raised an arm to stop it , walking round to the driver 's side . |
| 26 | What is , what is happening at the moment is although they ca n't afford the money for the full , for the full treatment they are making an allocation of money to improve matters round , round that area , which will be er , cos I , I told them that some of the pensioners were , w walking round by the bankment , it 's pouring of rain , which is perfectly true and that er the engineer should go round and see for himself and plus the fact how many of these people ever travel by bus , or do they always go by car , no , and also I brought up about bus shelters and all those sort of things , but any way , there will be some improvements for the bus station in the future . |
| 27 | Nonindividualistic conceptions are likely to be among the expensive tastes since their realization depends on the cooperation of others , and they will take some convincing to come round to the agent 's point of view . |
| 28 | At the congress Carlsson declared that the emergence of a new security system in Europe based on the 1975 Helsinki accords meant that Sweden 's neutrality no longer " bore the same heavy burden " , and the party began to come round to the view of both industry and the two major opposition parties ( M and Fp ) that Sweden should apply for membership of the European Communities ( EC , which it did in July 1991 — see p. 38353 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ A ’ and the other girls used to come round to the house asking me to do their hair or their eyebrows . |
| 30 | He used to come round to the house , a few years ago , before he took up so much with the Labour Party . " |