Example sentences of "round for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I could dispense with anything else , everything else , including visits to the tax office which I rarely do except to replace my er brochures and and er things that I send round for information . |
| 32 | He rose up on tiptoe , looking round for James , Allan , and the rest . |
| 33 | I dare n't look round for fear I should see |
| 34 | ‘ Does that mean — ? ’ he grinned round for approval . |
| 35 | He looked round for Huw Pritchard , but could n't find him . |
| 36 | She looked round for Hotspur , but he was not there . |
| 37 | Pipkin , who looked round for Hazel and then came over to wait beside him . |
| 38 | For those of you who invite people round for drinks on the spur of the moment , it is a very good idea to visit your local ‘ deli ’ and purchase a few packets of ready cooked canapé cups and miniature tartlet cases . |
| 39 | We were talking about Andrew coming home for the weekend and having the Bunkers round for drinks . |
| 40 | Meanwhile , with some help from Moxie , ( the ‘ daily ’ who sometimes ‘ helped out ’ was still afraid of infection ) Franca continued to run the house , to shop , to clean , to organise , to feed a sick man , to feed her husband , and entertain , as necessary , Alison , Irina , Gildas , Ludens , the doctor , Jerry , Sidney , Barry , Ned , and one or two of Jack 's painter friends who , now that Pat was recovering , had decided to come round for drinks . |
| 41 | ‘ Bring him round for drinks after I 've got the kids to bed , ’ Louise suggested . |
| 42 | When I came round for coffee . |
| 43 | I mean would you have the C O's wife round for coffee ? |
| 44 | I mean would you have a sergeant 's wife round for coffee here ? |
| 45 | At gate at top ( turn round for view of Castle Howard ) turn left on road past Coneysthorpe hamlet ( d ) and back to start . |
| 46 | Once she was gone Bernard and Ellen were able to ask Jed and Prune round for Christmas dinner . |
| 47 | Anne , what a lovely story , although it was n't very lovely , was it , when Aunty May came round for Christmas , and inflicted herself upon the whole family , with her own particular brand of misery ? |
| 48 | She came round for dinner one evening . |
| 49 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 50 | Pat 's son invited us round for dinner , I never thought so say you know ! |
| 51 | We had somebody round for dinner on Thursday and bought us a box of After Eight Mints and I think they lasted five minutes |
| 52 | Come round for dinner . |
| 53 | He loved the sound of her and was always on at me to have her round for tea . |
| 54 | Meg , who thought things ought to be done properly , invited Alan 's parents round for tea , just before Christmas . |
| 55 | Sir Kenneth invited him round for tea and by the time he had left Andrews had been given the huge task of designing a fulllength ballet involving set changes and 300 costumes . |
| 56 | As a matter of fact a fre fellow named lived in here and he was a traveller to er George he 's one of the best , biggest rim lockmakers in the town , anyway , they 're on this erm now and er he was going round for orders for regulars of his , for his firm and somebody , one day , asked him look here , we 've got a little awkward job here , you know anybody the can you do it ? |
| 57 | Ask your mother-in-law round for supper ? |
| 58 | With every evidence of cordiality and goodwill , she invited them both round for supper the following evening . |
| 59 | Wood is also the medium this time round for Judith Shea at Protech . |
| 60 | ‘ There 's a chap — he 's been coming round for years going on and on at me about buying the table . |