Example sentences of "round from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doth prowl , and round and round from door to door |
| 2 | WP Clearly there will be difficulties in turning the country round from state socialism to capitalism . |
| 3 | The column itself is decorated by a long relief frieze wound round from top to bottom and representing episodes from the Emperor 's Dacian campaigns . |
| 4 | He had had to conceal his revulsion at the creased and thumbed photographs handed round from desk to desk at school — those grey girls with their balloon breasts and gaping hairy forks . |
| 5 | When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’ |
| 6 | It was variously known as ‘ The Cage ’ or ‘ The Goldfish Bowl ’ , on account of its having windows all round from waist height to the ceiling . |
| 7 | Mr Bryan Gould is generally rated less European than the Shadow Chancellor , Mr John Smith ; and Mr Gerald Kaufman , the Shadow Foreign Secretary , has swung round from gut anti-Europeanism to a conviction that powerful central institutions are unavoidable — and Britain should play its full part . |
| 8 | ‘ It is sort of like a tramp freighter , sort of plodding round from point to point ’ , said the air branch officer ; ‘ and you do n't ask too many questions when you are doing this . ’ |
| 9 | We hope that as your Medau News — with its views , information and diary of events — comes through your letter box this September , you will agree that by receiving it by direct mail is a better system than sharing a few copies round from class member to class member . |
| 10 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |
| 11 | The day I was there was the still , silent kind of a winter day when the light clings to the skyline slowly moving round from east to south to west . |
| 12 | When this happens , the decision to move should be theirs alone and there should be no pressure to shuffle people round from house to house as their level of social achievement improves or deteriorates . |