Example sentences of "i [verb] round " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood up : ‘ No , I did n't ! — So he could n't have done it , could he ? — And before you say owt , he could n't have looked her up in the phone book 'cos she 's ex-directory ! — And anyway , he told me to go round there today and get her to put her money in the bank . |
| 2 | And then everything goes wrong when he ca n't get me to go round there and pinch it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Would you like me to go round ? |
| 4 | And they said , well I 'm sorry you know , er take the numbers of the cars , they want me to go round and take the numbers of the cars , phone them back and we will see if we 've got someone that we can send down there ! |
| 5 | D' ya want me to go round to that school and beat the crap out of them ? |
| 6 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She asked me to come round and I told her about you not showing up . |
| 9 | I kept on thinking , he did n't really mean me to come round . |
| 10 | Do you want me to come round there so you can read |
| 11 | So you go , I mean round here is that ? |
| 12 | But I mean round there it 's absolutely steeped in history . |
| 13 | Oh yeah very good I mean round of applause everybody come on . |
| 14 | I dance round the kitchen table , twirling the hat on my hand , so that the ribbons fly out behind it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I got round this potential danger of tonal contrasts by ensuring that I was near enough to the boat to see it mainly in its own shadows ( figure XX ) , thus reducing the glare of white , and thereby allowing a less contrasting tonal interplay between boat and background . |
| 17 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 18 | ‘ I got round — but it was painful , ’ Martin told the Herald on Monday . |
| 19 | I had a busy day and it was after six o'clock before I got round to The Laurels . |
| 20 | Anyway , before I got round to it , my symptoms started and shortly afterwards , as you know , MS was diagnosed . ’ |
| 21 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 22 | And then I was late , when I got round there I thought well she 'll at least be waiting at the top of the drive , if not at the top of the road . |
| 23 | I got round just as |
| 24 | It was late and she 'd given , they were coming out when I got round there ! |
| 25 | Well , it 's as fast as I got round |
| 26 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 27 | I moved round behind his back , until I had seen into every part of the room . |
| 28 | I moved round to the other windows , but I could not see her in any of the rooms . |
| 29 | I slip round to where my hand finds the iron handle . |
| 30 | I hurry round . |