Example sentences of "[verb] round [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By May 1989 , however , many of these critics had come round to praise the continued radicalism of the Thatcher government , in education , tax cuts , and further measures of privatization . |
| 2 | Guido was swinging the sail round to catch the light wind . |
| 3 | He put the phone down and turned round to see the whole family looking at him , open-mouthed . |
| 4 | The driver was oiling an axle box when he turned round to see the trim figure of a young lady with a small boy near the first compartment of the carriage next to the tender . |
| 5 | To the right a magnificent staircase , carpeted in deep wine red , curved round to adjoin the left hand side of the gallery above . |
| 6 | The whole army was then to advance on London , crossing the Thames to the west at Hampton Court , Kingston , Kew and Putney and moving round to occupy the northern heights of Hampstead and Highgate , to cut off London from relief from that direction . |
| 7 | Now imagine the small hand on 10 both clocks is held at 3 and the large hand brought round to meet the small hand . |
| 8 | There was a step behind her and she whirled round to meet the knowing look of a woman from another flat . |
| 9 | They all gathered round to inspect the empty space where two of them had previously seen a box . |
| 10 | Robbed of its supply of shingle from the west the spit began to be swung round to face the dominant waves , i.e. those from the southwest . |
| 11 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 12 | I looked round to glimpse the dark mass of Royston Manor and the swaying corpse of the hanged man caught my glance . |
| 13 | But there was n't the , the erm ante natal care that there is these days , I mean there were no erm when you went round to se if you were a midwife and you went round to see the prospective mother you 'd say , now you are eating proper meals are n't you ? |
| 14 | Appalled at herself , Virginia spun round to face the other girl , read the anguished look in the charcoal eyes . |
| 15 | She waited until the last possible moment before pivoting round to challenge the approaching figure . |
| 16 | South of Barrowgate Road there existed a few houses fronting Sutton Court Road ; some Almshouses on the southern side of Sutton Lane , with the fish pond behind them ; Sutton Court itself at the bottom end of Sutton Court Road , where Sutton Lane turned south — that part of Sutton Lane later became Fauconberg Road — with the Lawn Tennis Grounds on the southern side and Chiswick Park Farm occupying the whole area of land to the east of Sutton Court Road , and the continuing Sutton Lane — which later formed the southern part of Sutton Court Road — curving round to meet the bottom end of Burlington Lane , on the southern boundary of Chiswick House Gardens . |
| 17 | I mind fine we all crowded round to see the old mole catcher with the white mole , mhm . |