Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] round [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis is rather the effect of the war on an American community ; the final scene , in which survivors sit round a table singing ‘ God Bless America ’ , is crucial , and symbolises the regenerative powers of an America that had survived both Vietnam and Watergate . |
| 2 | Large lakes thaw round the edges but tend to retain a core of ice in summer ; in consequence their waters never warm far above freezing point . |
| 3 | H. P. I 've seen inspectors go round the police huts and examine the First Aid Kit . |
| 4 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 5 | Though each of the others vanished and reappeared like fragments floating round a pool , Pipkin never left him ; and his need for encouragement became at last Hazel 's only support against his own weariness . |
| 6 | The live-and-let-live system could have been worked out by verbal negotiation , by conscious strategists bargaining round a table . |
| 7 | Three huge blacks sit round the kitchen table , skimming the pages of my magazines , and the pasty-coloured Lump Number Two lies on his belly on the floor . |
| 8 | Inside , the 'heads skip round the arena with bells on their ankles , and wave fluorescent plastic tubes in the air — but sadly , tonight the Grateful Dead never manage to make it past the mildly interesting stage . |
| 9 | Inside , the 'heads skip round the arena with bells on their ankles , and wave fluorescent plastic tubes in the air — but sadly , tonight the Grateful Dead never manage to make it past the mildly interesting stage . |
| 10 | Did she imagine it or did a head of bronze curls pop round the door , and were a pair of peacock-blue eyes gazing at her with implacable hatred ? |
| 11 | ‘ Spoken like a true woman , ’ said Dr Neil , staring at the board , empty save for a few pieces clustered round a pair of kings in one corner . |
| 12 | Ahead lay a steep , narrow valley and a village , diminutive at this distance , its buildings clustered round a harbour . |
| 13 | We were proud to welcome Wayne C. Fairbrother who survived after 188 days wandering round a Birmingham multi-storey car park trying to remember where he had left his blue Sierra . |
| 14 | Car lights came round a bend from that direction and seemed not to be travelling too fast . |
| 15 | British problems revolved round a chest muscle pulled by Grayson Bourne several weeks prior to the event . |
| 16 | The recipes and the suggested menus evoke the days of English parlourmaids handing round every course in silver-plated entrée dishes far too big for the food they contained , while the illustrations of table decorations devised by Mr Thomas Lowinsky depict such conversation stimulators as " two dead branches in an accumulator jar " , or " a spiral of chromium-plated steel pierced with holes through which the stems of flowers are passed " . |
| 17 | The chicks need round the clock attention , and have developed very healthy appetites . |
| 18 | with tassels spilling round a clump of rock . |
| 19 | In one of Europe 's sickest countries — Scotland 's heart disease and cancer rates cluster round the top of the league tables — Glasgow 's health record remains among the worst . |
| 20 | THE FOLLOWING NIGHT , down in the Lower East Side 's garment district , a few dozen B-boys huddle round a cassette deck in a threadbare rehearsal room . |
| 21 | Thatched cottages cluster round the harbour while at the other end of the wide sandy beach Somerwest World offers a complete range of entertainment to holidaymakers and day visitors . |
| 22 | Usual anti-climax — old birds standing round a bit o' grass at t'back they 'd got lease of for a few hours , wi' a garden label saying Mrs Edna Morrison and a few bunches of chrysanths put in rows . |
| 23 | A disconsolate group of climbers sitting round a kitchen table all lean forward and peer out at the iron-grey clouds rumbling past . |
| 24 | A dozen or so desperados lounge round the door . |
| 25 | In the next candlelit cabin four men sit round a trunk of loose pills , carefully arranging coloured antibiotics in tubes of cellophane . |
| 26 | Men huddle round the car , removing what look like dark , limp sacks of potatoes from within it . |
| 27 | The links curl round the club and tighten . |
| 28 | ‘ And if he did n't do that , he 'd get one of his men to ring round every hotel in England . |
| 29 | It was a little winter scene — the Thames frozen from bank to bank , people skating , and children playing round a bonfire on the ice . |
| 30 | Let's say Vargas has picked one of them up in one of those pubs the soldiers frequent round the Tower . ’ |