Example sentences of "[verb] round to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I moved round to the other windows , but I could not see her in any of the rooms . |
| 2 | He was about to apologize , remembered the microphone , then moved round to the other side of the desk and sat down . |
| 3 | Theodora circled the house in the direction of the arrow and came round to the back door . |
| 4 | Yeah I know if you 'd have moved round to the other side that would have been in the shadow so you would n't have got those nice bright colours . |
| 5 | As soon as they sight a predator approaching , they swiftly dart round to the far side of a tree-trunk before performing the rigid ‘ statue ’ response . |
| 6 | He goes out to work , that means he 's going round to the various houses and |
| 7 | For instance , young and untrained sheepdogs will often spontaneously run round to the other side of a flock of sheep and try to drive them towards the shepherd . |
| 8 | A naive dog will spontaneously run round to the other side of the flock . |
| 9 | The one he selected , instantly burst into life and the propeller whizzed round to the utter amazement of all those working in the vicinity . |
| 10 | Then she swung round to the empty desk . |
| 11 | Moving round to the other side of the bed , the nurse proceeded to change the bottle on the I.V . |
| 12 | We had two minutes to get into cover and walked round to the other side of the wall and crouched down with our hands over our ears and our helmets firmly strapped on . |
| 13 | He kissed her on the forehead , then climbed out of the car and walked round to the other side . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They walked round to the back garden of the cottage , past the little wooden outhouse that was the toilet . |
| 16 | She walked round to the main entrance and took the lift . |
| 17 | They separated and one pair walked round to the driving side . |
| 18 | Fig 27 As you pass through the eye of the wind you need to transfer both back hand and foot to the mast and get round to the other side as quickly as possible ; a small jump is often the best way . |
| 19 | Even Mr Akers seemed slowly to be coming round to the sensible idea that IBM should be broken up . |
| 20 | A contract may be a contract , but Branson was now coming round to the belated realisation that a suitable gesture to Oldfield much earlier on in his career — increasing his royalty rate after Tubular Bells , for example — could have prevented all this ugliness . |
| 21 | After that , the manager went through the procedure adopted : a telephone call to the reference number cited ; verification of credit card ; verification of driving licence ; verification of home address ( the last three usually completed within ten minutes or so on the International Information Computer ) ; preparation , presentation , and signing of the contract ( including appropriate insurance clauses ) ; then , paperwork now completed , the car brought round to the outer forecourt , with an assistant to give the client a quick run-over of the controls , and to hand over the keys . |
| 22 | It can therefore be taught to circle if ( a ) the shepherd first makes the dog run round to the other side of the flock , and then ( b ) moves himself and repeats the exercise . |
| 23 | And er , then he would carry all your goods in , in , I used to think it was wonderful how he managed to pick them all up in his arms and he 'd walk round to the next counter where your other , you had your other dry goods you see , your tea and sugar and your fruit and er then it would all be totted up together . |
| 24 | Grooves in the pastureland showed where the drive had swung round to the front door . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ This is a very pleasant office , ’ she began conversationally as he handed her a cup and went round to the other side of the desk . |
| 27 | She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk . |
| 28 | They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug . |
| 29 | ‘ I go round to the three people for whom I 'm a key worker . |
| 30 | In the process of heading up , place your front foot by the mastfoot in anticipation of the rush to get round to the new tack . |