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Example sentences of "round to the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He asked me where a ladder like that could be found , and I took him round to the one that hangs on the side of the potting shed .
2	All that scuffling had been to move an armchair round to the front of the desk .
3	We shut the place up early that evening and then all went round to the pub for a further celebration .
4	We will have words for you in a minute , ’ and he turned round to the crowd .
5	Twist your body to the left as far as possible , and then round to the right as far as possible .
6	SOCIAL ‘ Sociologists apparently have come round to the belief that 50 per cent of middle-class parents who send their children to private schools would be happy to put them in the state system if dinner money was renamed lunch money . ’
7	Instead there is a designer 's travelogue : the production ( no director is listed , but Nigel Jamieson heads the company ) veers all over the Far East and indeed round to the Caribbean .
8	We reached Brigade H.Q a few minutes later and drove the jeep round to the back of the house where we unloaded the canisters .
9	There was no answer to my knock so I went round to the side door facing the canal .
10	We stopped at a gap in the hedge as the road swung round to the left .
11	And me , he took me round to the YMCA locker room and photographed me half dressed .
12	No longer had she the ache of longing for that stretch of white road leading round to the sycamores .
13	He stepped back onto the concrete and came round to the front of the building where the flowering cherries were just coming into bud on the lawn .
14	Entering the competition was entirely Barbara 's idea and when the phone call came through to say they 'd won , Betty was quite shocked to discover that she , too , was going to London to have a makeover — but she soon came round to the idea !
15	Even today , it is impossible to debate the weather or the honey crop with the average Cagliaritano without the conversation drifting round to the campioni del settanta .
16	Mr Petrie deftly shovelled the smouldering contents of the cushion into the barrow and wheeled it out of the front door , round to the back of the house , and left it .
17	Then he ran off with the wire , not out of the gate , but round to the front of the house .
18	He wheeled his bike round to the back .
19	Quickly he pulled the gun round to the other side of the log , hiding it .
20	He went round to the stage door afterwards and asked the man on duty to send up his name .
21	The Woman was sitting round to the right , beside a television , and as soon as she saw Tug she waved at a chair .
22	He attended without wavering as she took him round to the head of the little dale , above the cottage , pointing out the hare 's field below them as they went .
23	Doyle jerked at Tug 's arms to bring him round to the table .
24	As she went round to the back of the Post Office , she could hear Mrs Hollins and Rachel in the kitchen , giggling and chattering while they cooked their Sunday lunch .
25	We had both had quite a happy day ; but as the sun began to creep round to the west and to decline , I had a feeling of unease .
26	She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk .
27	As they walked round to the back door , Ben , Simon 's dog , came lolloping up the beach , charged at Marie with a stick in his mouth and laid it down carefully at her feet .
28	It was quicker than pushing through the front door and round to the side again .
29	Alida went round to the far side of the great bed , the unseemly bed , in which her mother 's shrunken body was lost as in a great sea .
30	The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise .