Example sentences of "[noun] round to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a navigable track that circled the perimeter , and brought the car round to the other side of the curator 's house and garden by inconspicuous ways . |
| 2 | On Christmas morning , Murphy brought the carriage round to the front door long before Alexandra could send him a message to say she would drive herself to church . |
| 3 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 4 | Lorimer took Cleo round to the left side of the house , which was thickly covered in ancient ivy . |
| 5 | Through the mist he could see the vague outlines of the priory church and followed its outline round to the ruined oak stump where Lady Eleanor had received her mysterious messages . |
| 6 | So that viewed from the purl side it 's the opposite way round to the mylar sheet , while on the knit side it 's the same way round as the mylar sheet of course . |
| 7 | On arriving , she worked her way round to the front window . |
| 8 | Mr Grimes led the way round to the back door and ‘ the ash boy let them in , yawning horribly ’ ; soon Tom was ‘ in pitchy darkness , as much at home in a chimney as a mole is underground ’ . |
| 9 | Still moving slowly , intending to make her way round to the back door , up to her room , collect her belongings , then leave the same way , she caught her breath when a stealthy hand caught hold of her arm . |
| 10 | As a precaution , Alexandra took her fork round to the far side of the wain , in case her mother should be looking from a window , and plunged and twisted it in most expertly in order to bring out a huge wedge of tawny grasses , cut last summer in these very meadows . |
| 11 | He pushed Hoomey round to the far door , opened it . |
| 12 | To my right was the endless sandy sweep and white surf of Rhossili Bay , curving for miles round to the distant headland of Burry Holms . |
| 13 | You can then practise by sending another member of the family round to the front door to act as a visitor , making the dog sit again . |
| 14 | Quickly he pulled the gun round to the other side of the log , hiding it . |