Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] round the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I dance round the kitchen table , twirling the hat on my hand , so that the ribbons fly out behind it . |
2 | As I walk round the croft I can feel a strange sensation in my stomach , a feeling not unlike fear , and I now know that she is dead . |
3 | I walk round the room sort of smiling and sometimes waving or stopping to talk to someone . |
4 | I look round the room , but I ca n't find it . |
5 | I look round the room quick to make sure it 's neat looking . |
6 | I look round the room . |
7 | I hang round the station a bit , watching the people all hurrying to catch their trains . |
8 | I glance round the hall like I 've come to change the wallpaper , thirty years late . |
9 | I tend to paint very quickly , so the paint is always rather damp as I flit round the paper , putting a colour here and one there , and at first it all looks a bit of a jumble . |
10 | I go round the bend just looking after kids all day . |
11 | So when I go round the garden , I carry two containers : a bucket for compostable weeds , and a plastic bag for those perennials with tough tools that might survive . |
12 | I wander round the park a bit looking at the trees and stuff . |
13 | I float round the house — Elizabeth Barrett Lipman . |
14 | Propagation is easily achieved by shoots which develop round the parent plant . |
15 | Accordingly , look out for College of Law courses which go round the country , and give good basic training and updates . |
16 | In ( A ) the feathers have been treated as sculptural masses , which fold round the form . |
17 | These are the leather straps you put round the bird 's legs to hold it on the glove that you have to wear when you handle birds of prey . |
18 | You make sure he ca n't be seen from the letter flap , which is covered by a sealed box , then you look round the hall . |
19 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
20 | As you pass round the plant stem for the last time , turn the cord through between stem and stake and wrap the turns , pulling the cord tight to form a firm collar as shown in Figure 5 . |
21 | You shuffle round the room |
22 | I shall be interested to discover whether that view is shared by the Labour spokesmen who trail round the country assuring training and enterprise councils of their support . |
23 | We act cool , like we 're not delighted to meet up again , then we sit round the kitchen table and talk . |
24 | I do n't want to be blown across the room in the first ten minutes so I hang back a little as we sit round the table with Anthony Hopkins and Campbell Scott to read the scene through and discuss it . |
25 | As we sit round the set , |
26 | ‘ We walk round the building and they are introduced to any members of staff around . |
27 | Celebration room — the room ( or space ) in which the catechists and sacred experience take place : where we gather round the Word of God and receive his message through symbol and example . |
28 | No , we go round the lake and get into Erik 's house from the back . |
29 | The song ‘ Here we go round the mulberry bush ’ reflects this ( though an alternative theory holds that a mulberry tree was often planted in prison exercise yards , and inmates recited the rhyme as they walked round it ) . |
30 | Here we go round the mulberry bush |