Example sentences of "go round [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Lincoln was criticized , attacked for this , that er and he said in response to this the attention of the country has been called to the proposition that one who is sworn as the constitution says to take care that the laws be faithfully executed should himself not violate those laws a fairly reasonable proposition you might think , if your oath says to uphold the law then you start going round breaking the law er something wrong here somewhere methinks . |
| 2 | It was signed by the organisation 's prize draw manager no less so it was not just case of anybody going round breaking the good news . |
| 3 | There are no bureaucrats going round counting the jobs that never happened , the jobs that went away or the small firms that have packed up because they could no longer make a profit under the new controls and restrictions on their work force . |
| 4 | You imagine someone going round kneecapping people ; that 's the sort of person I was . |
| 5 | He 'll be in directly — he 's just going round locking up . ’ |
| 6 | And e every week the admiralty had a clerk of works going round watching the progress . |
| 7 | Yes er I remember a chap at the depot doing the Spanish Civil War er wh th there was a movement going round collecting food for the , or money for food for the children of Spain . |
| 8 | Erm so really and truly i i you know with what we 'd got it was sort of carrying the business on in a very sort of low way and instead of going round collecting the work it was all done through the post . |
| 9 | Somebody in a Bugs Bunny suit is going round dishing out little Easter eggs to all the toddlers in the place . |
| 10 | Ah I bet they do though if it 's the same people that 's operating , they 're going round murdering people |
| 11 | going round using their tags and reckoning they 're . |
| 12 | I actually started with eng civil engineer , going round looking for the camp site and then we did tramp the hills . |
| 13 | He 's been going round looking like the wrath of God . |
| 14 | We had great fun going round seeing everybody and building up the bidding . ’ |
| 15 | Going round seeing people like Peter Green — I followed all the early incarnations of John Mayall around — was just a fantastic experience at that time . |
| 16 | So that if everyone if if people who wrote the dictionaries did n't know people 'd still be going round thinking that everyone said fore head or break fast . |
| 17 | toilet , in Bon 's , in Dan 's loo at Bon 's party cos I 'm going round going oh no no no no I 'll give you a fiver for it I went I really do n't want to sell and in the end like I just said to him look just fuck off , you know cos like he was just persistent |
| 18 | he was going round going oh my God I got off with a real dog . |
| 19 | You 'll be going round glueing everything now ! |
| 20 | and he said no , someone 's going round nicking out the sheds and Nick said I know who he is , I thought |
| 21 | ’ I 'm not going round shaving a jigsaw piece , ’ she said . |
| 22 | we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out . |
| 23 | ‘ Why the hell ca n't we have some proper light in here ? ’ he complained as he strode in , snapping on the electric lights and going round dousing the candles . |
| 24 | The best thing to get richer is like , going round car boot sales , like my mum , she 's so funny , dad said she 's a different woman , she 's just like , cos when Phil and I erm , were engaged , we were trying to save up money , so we , oh and like we 'd sell off all our old stuff , so just give me of money , and then , we got these and my mum was pricing everything up , and she 's going , if someone asks for a discount , do n't , just do n't give it to them , she said , everyone 's going round pricing everything up and erm , when they come to you , they just , they just want things for nothing . |
| 25 | There 's this man on this big white car thing going round cleaning the floor . |
| 26 | It 'll be a change from going round blessing everybody . |
| 27 | ‘ Apparently Nicola was going round saying she had the backing of top management . ’ |
| 28 | One of the loopier producers is going round saying the office is haunted . ’ |
| 29 | When Shepherd & wedderburn 's Paul Hally and Graham Barnet first suggested setting up Connections , a ‘ corporate finance marketing forum ’ in the form of a quarterly newsletter , ‘ we were very cautious and circumspect , simply going round saying ‘ we 've got this idea , we think it might work ’ , ’ said Hally . |
| 30 | I mean , can you imagine surviving with all these wimmin going round saying ‘ Told you so ? ’ |