Example sentences of "[verb] round the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ cluster ’ , under such an arrangement , is a dispersed group of residential facilities and ordinary dwellings scattered round the locality in which individuals receiving the service live . |
| 2 | Voices raised with excitement came from a fourth group , clustered round the sink in the corner of the room . |
| 3 | Anyone who has torn round the house in search of a lost shoe while trying to get the kids to school will sympathise with the camel that collapsed under the weight of one more straw . |
| 4 | Usually it was safe to wander round the village in the daytime : the dogs knew their own people and , as long as neighbours stayed on neutral ground , they let them be . |
| 5 | The whole South Sussex team had been driving round the country in a vast aluminium horse box , evidently the latest thing in America , and Kevin had provided each player with four top-class ponies . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're living round the corner in the council yard . |
| 7 | Similarly , the act of lighting candles or passing round the arti-lamp in a religious ceremony will be seen in the same way . |
| 8 | When he came round the Mill in the morning . |
| 9 | When he came round the Mill in the morning . |
| 10 | The harvester moved round the field in a strict square , so that the standing crop grew smaller and smaller with every pass . |
| 11 | It was at this point that Dorothea Gilberd , wandering round the school in search of him , came upon Toby . |
| 12 | And everyone knew of the people they 'd bitten , like the man who went mad — wandering round the village in search of water , complaining of aching limbs and an unquenchable thirst — and whose body was found , months later , washed up in the river at Lāmri . |
| 13 | You were going round the Earth in orbit — in a circle . ’ |
| 14 | You and the Shuttle going round the Earth in the same orbit . |
| 15 | Oh , yes ? ' ) asking him whether he had ever thought of going round the world in 80 days . |
| 16 | I suppose you spent your childhood going round the world in a cargo-boat . ’ |
| 17 | For a start , the yachts are going round the world in the opposite direction , against the prevailing winds and currents , heading first for Rio de Janeiro , then Hobart and finally Mauritius , before returning to Southampton in April or May 1993 . |
| 18 | He wished he had n't spotted it as it made him think of this morning and going round the house in Hill View Road , and the idea his Mum and Dad had about moving . |
| 19 | He stopped to relieve himself into the roadside bushes and almost lost his balance as a car screeched round the corner in a clatter of gravel . |
| 20 | Then he turned round the chair in a fit of hatred . |
| 21 | The landowners ' letters to the Home Secretary revealed the extent to which they were initially unable to accept that their labourers were more than usually discontented ; according to the more alarmist gentry , ‘ travelling incendiaries respectably attired ’ were racing round the area in fast carriages , firing incendiary pellets from slings or crossbows into haystacks . |
| 22 | A four-mile path meanders round the lake in the centre of the park ; our project was to lay red shale on a popular and consequently very worn stretch along the north side . |
| 23 | Norah , for instance , would arrive at a Yorkshire pit village one Sunday morning to be shown round the mine in a white helmet . |
| 24 | ROBIN Knox-Johnston and Peter Blake are still well ahead of schedule in their bid to sail round the world in under 80 days . |
| 25 | Higher up , I swung round the aréte in a wonderful position and the climbing got more open and exciting . |
| 26 | Mina piled up the plates and took them outside to wash , and the dog rummaged round the floor in search of bones . |
| 27 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 28 | She wanted to pee and she walked round the house in search of a bush . |
| 29 | From then the moon goes round the earth in twenty eight days |
| 30 | Triton , the largest satellite of Neptune , goes round the planet in the opposite direction to Neptune 's other moons , and may originally have been a small planet in its own right which was captured by Neptune 's gravity . |