Example sentences of "[verb] round to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was then that the wind changed round to the north-west and the first , and worst , of the storms hit the Flamingo . |
| 7 | And turning to his colleague he said , ‘ Charley , keep an eye on these buggers while I nip round to the station . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd grab my jacket , and parcel , then nip round to the customer with it — by foot ( shank 's pony ) . |
| 9 | Just nip round to the supermarket now and stock up on the latest in buffet catering . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He moved round to the front of the stall , pulling McAllister with him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Satisfied that his aim was correct he moved round to the side of the golf-bag . |
| 15 | Magee raised an arm to stop it , walking round to the driver 's side . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ A ’ and the other girls used to come round to the house asking me to do their hair or their eyebrows . |
| 19 | He used to come round to the house , a few years ago , before he took up so much with the Labour Party . " |
| 20 | We had both had quite a happy day ; but as the sun began to creep round to the west and to decline , I had a feeling of unease . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | Er , just this this woman came round to the door last night and said well er , you know the in bi English Dictionary ? |
| 23 | ‘ Chap came round to the Palladium one night , said we could be in it if we liked , only there was no money , just publicity . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As Duncan opened the back door to put his suitcase in , Myeloski came round to the passenger side of the car . |
| 26 | They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat . |
| 27 | That fact that it was over was all there in his formal goodbye when he came round to the passenger 's side and stood on the pavement with her , and , ‘ Na shledanou , Fabia , ’ he wished her . |
| 28 | As was proved when , without replying to her question about the interview , he left the driver 's seat and came round to the passenger 's door . |
| 29 | Subsequently he changed his mind , possibly in relation to pressure from outside , possibly in an attempt to make psychoanalysis more acceptable , possibly because he could n't come to terms with the fact himself and he then came round to the point of view that these were fantasised seductions as he called them . |
| 30 | In a normal cat , ears flattened to this degree would already be twisted round to the rear . |