Example sentences of "[verb] round [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After another step or two the man stopped and turned round to speak to the parson . |
| 2 | He knew there was something odd , which was why he turned round to look into the wings , hoping for some signal from you . |
| 3 | It swung round to park alongside the dais , where little Otaki was waiting to receive the keys from R. J. O. Bryer Esq . |
| 4 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 5 | The father was just moving round to sit at the head of the table when the mother came sweeping out of the kitchen carrying a huge plate piled high with eggs and sausages and bacon and tomatoes . |
| 6 | Zach threw back the lid in triumph and the twins and George gathered round to look at the contents . |
| 7 | As they walked up towards the main road , he was surprised to see her turn round to wave at the policemen as if they were old friends . |
| 8 | Charles felt the blood trickling down his leg into his wet sock and , still keeping low behind a rock , rolled round to look at the wound . |
| 9 | But it 's no way , I mean it was a really wet morning at quarter to seven , it had been raining , and he was right behind a lorry , and he , he , the lorry went to go one way and the he did n't go back because he knew he was going one way and the guy was going the other , he just started to go round to go to the left and bike was just there , he had no way of seeing him or he . |
| 10 | There was a museum on the southern shore , and the coast was lined by terraces of comfortable villas ; a band-stand occupied a prominent place on a new promenade , and at dusk a large crowd thronged round to listen to the music ministered to them by a company of musicians , what some call in Scotland a ‘ brass band . ’ |
| 11 | And when the time comes round to return to the office , it 's just five miles to the M 5 motorway . |