Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] round [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing here was that all the flowers were blue — delphiniums and cornflowers and forget me nots round a sundial in the middle of a smooth green velvet lawn . |
| 2 | I dance round the kitchen table , twirling the hat on my hand , so that the ribbons fly out behind it . |
| 3 | I peer round a stack of Hovis loaves and see Stewpid just entering the doors with Simon right behind him , no Jonathan though , slow-footed halfwit . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I walk round the room sort of smiling and sometimes waving or stopping to talk to someone . |
| 6 | I look round the room , but I ca n't find it . |
| 7 | I look round the room quick to make sure it 's neat looking . |
| 8 | I look round the room . |
| 9 | I hang round the station a bit , watching the people all hurrying to catch their trains . |
| 10 | I glance round the hall like I 've come to change the wallpaper , thirty years late . |
| 11 | I glanced round a couple of times expecting him to appear through the trees with a mouthful of oaths and a loud ‘ Come on , Boyo ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | … those countries which I could not visit in my proper person , I have so attentively read about , that as I turn round a globe I can almost fancy that I know the appearance and characters of the portions of the great world itself which lie mapped out under my eye , and observe all that is going forward on its surface . |
| 14 | I go round the bend just looking after kids all day . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I went round a house the other week the kid had been caught shoplifting and the father wanted to fight me . |
| 17 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
| 18 | I wander round the park a bit looking at the trees and stuff . |
| 19 | I float round the house — Elizabeth Barrett Lipman . |
| 20 | Two of them came round a while ago and they said , ‘ Our pigeon 's on your roof , miss , can we go up your house and get it down through your loft ? ’ |
| 21 | Propagation is easily achieved by shoots which develop round the parent plant . |
| 22 | The motor cyclist sped off away from Walberswick , was soon a speck which vanished round a bend . |
| 23 | Accordingly , look out for College of Law courses which go round the country , and give good basic training and updates . |
| 24 | In ( A ) the feathers have been treated as sculptural masses , which fold round the form . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But she almost turned and fled as she came round a corner and found herself face to face with Guido . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | can you move round a bit |