Example sentences of "[adv prt] and round [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down and round to the level of her breast . |
| 2 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 3 | To lift the patient off the bed onto a chair or commode , one carer takes up the position already described , while the other stands behind the patient on the bed and guides the patient 's seat up and round onto the chair . |
| 4 | One false feint to the groin , then up and round in a semi-arc to slice the enemy between helmet and hauberk . |
| 5 | A figure in a raincoat was preparing for sleep in the doorway of George Henry Lee 's , treading round and round on a heap of old newspapers like a dog at the hearth . |
| 6 | A group of whirligig beetles span round and round on the surface of the water putting me in a daze . |
| 7 | I would go round and round on the same point , he would commiserate , pretend to understand , but never move an inch . |
| 8 | McDunn taps the fag packet round and round on the table a couple of times . |
| 9 | He chooses to tap his fag packet round and round on the tabletop again rather than speak to me , so I say , ‘ Well , I 'm not sure about that , but it 's certainly somebody who knows me ; I mean , I think that card with my writing on it proves that . |
| 10 | He taps the cigarette packet round and round on the table surface . |
| 11 | As the loose barley was unloaded on to the goafstead , a boy rode a quiet old farmhorse round and round on the corn , trampling it down . |
| 12 | She kept twirling round and round on the grass . ’ |
| 13 | He kebabs his victim on the end of a spike and then turns it round and round over the flames . |
| 14 | The band struck up another pastiche of Strauss and the tide of skaters waltzed round and round in a hypnotic swirl of hats and feathers . |
| 15 | They climbed higher than any other birds , it seemed ; they ascended into the limitless blue until they became lost to sight or mere specks , drifting round and round in a free flight in which their wings scarcely seemed to move . |
| 16 | You dance round and round in a circle until … |
| 17 | Helen , never taking her eyes off Alexandra , craned sideways so that she could wind a finger round and round in a hole in her black stocking . |
| 18 | We were going round and round in a weird dance and nearly slipped over in the pee that was splattered on the floor . |
| 19 | There was n't much to look at , though for once the sky was clear ; gulls were drifting round and round in an uneasy crowd , hardly making a sound , like scraps of newspaper spiralling in the wind . |
| 20 | ‘ Then why do I get the distinct impression that we 're going round and round in the same circles ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ They were coming in and going round and round in the system . |