Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] round the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dance round the kitchen table , twirling the hat on my hand , so that the ribbons fly out behind it . |
| 2 | As I walk round the croft I can feel a strange sensation in my stomach , a feeling not unlike fear , and I now know that she is dead . |
| 3 | I walk round the room sort of smiling and sometimes waving or stopping to talk to someone . |
| 4 | I look round the room , but I ca n't find it . |
| 5 | I look round the room quick to make sure it 's neat looking . |
| 6 | I look round the room . |
| 7 | I hang round the station a bit , watching the people all hurrying to catch their trains . |
| 8 | I glance round the hall like I 've come to change the wallpaper , thirty years late . |
| 9 | I tend to paint very quickly , so the paint is always rather damp as I flit round the paper , putting a colour here and one there , and at first it all looks a bit of a jumble . |
| 10 | I go round the bend just looking after kids all day . |
| 11 | So when I go round the garden , I carry two containers : a bucket for compostable weeds , and a plastic bag for those perennials with tough tools that might survive . |
| 12 | I wander round the park a bit looking at the trees and stuff . |
| 13 | I float round the house — Elizabeth Barrett Lipman . |
| 14 | These are the leather straps you put round the bird 's legs to hold it on the glove that you have to wear when you handle birds of prey . |
| 15 | You make sure he ca n't be seen from the letter flap , which is covered by a sealed box , then you look round the hall . |
| 16 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 17 | As you pass round the plant stem for the last time , turn the cord through between stem and stake and wrap the turns , pulling the cord tight to form a firm collar as shown in Figure 5 . |
| 18 | You shuffle round the room |
| 19 | We act cool , like we 're not delighted to meet up again , then we sit round the kitchen table and talk . |
| 20 | I do n't want to be blown across the room in the first ten minutes so I hang back a little as we sit round the table with Anthony Hopkins and Campbell Scott to read the scene through and discuss it . |
| 21 | As we sit round the set , |
| 22 | ‘ We walk round the building and they are introduced to any members of staff around . |
| 23 | Celebration room — the room ( or space ) in which the catechists and sacred experience take place : where we gather round the Word of God and receive his message through symbol and example . |
| 24 | No , we go round the lake and get into Erik 's house from the back . |
| 25 | The song ‘ Here we go round the mulberry bush ’ reflects this ( though an alternative theory holds that a mulberry tree was often planted in prison exercise yards , and inmates recited the rhyme as they walked round it ) . |
| 26 | Here we go round the mulberry bush |
| 27 | Here we go round the mulberry bush |
| 28 | We go round the group deciding on whether he/she is happy or unhappy , old or young , what they do , how they feel . |
| 29 | New Zealand I hope to visit myself probably on my way home as we come round the Horn and thereby circumnavigate the globe ! ! ! |
| 30 | Carefully they cut round the base with a knife , to free any wax that was sealing it down , and eased the skep up off the base stone . |