Example sentences of "[v-ing] round [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ON Saturday 130 of Britain 's fastest kart racing drivers will take part in the Townparks Car Sales sponsored opening round of the British championships for gearbox driven machines . |
| 2 | DANNY MEDDINGS continued his run of form with a surprisingly easy victory over Welsh No 1 , Adrian Davies , in last night 's opening round of the Daily Express British Players ' Championship at Cheshunt , Hertfordshire , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 3 | I finished equal fifth and , although I got as far as the final qualifying round for the Open and won through two rounds of the Amateur Championship , that was to be my best result for the year . |
| 4 | Let's must hope Smith 's mind is on the game tomorrow , when Redditch are at Hitchin to contest a place in the FA Cup 's final qualifying round before the Third and Fourth Division sides enter . |
| 5 | Hey hey I say all these kids are doing is walking round with a bloody turnip with a candle in it . |
| 6 | If suffering a ropey marriage automatically led to that sort of state of grace , half the women in the country would be walking round with an outsize halo above their head . |
| 7 | he 's walking round like a lost soul |
| 8 | Whilst the lawyers were still sorting out his mothers estate he started looking round for a suitable business . |
| 9 | I think I 've enough of my own without looking round for a few more . ’ |
| 10 | He was looking round with a vacant look on his face and I was frightened . |
| 11 | Looking round at the elegant dining room , waited on by the unobtrusive Friedrich , Peter Müller wondered what it would be like to live on such a scale , with so much money to make life as smooth as silk . |
| 12 | I made a mug of decaf and sat looking round at the crumbling plaster ceiling , the curdled paintwork , the tatty carpet and the flophouse furnishings . |
| 13 | Looking round at the bare orderly room , the chairs pushed in beneath each desk , each typewriter shrouded in its plastic cover , I felt singularly bereft . |
| 14 | So she got up slowly from the floor , the last few sobs still springing unbidden up her throat , and without looking round at the disordered room once more , she picked up her lamp and went down to her bedroom to change . |
| 15 | " I 'm sure you do , " said Cowslip , looking round at the mudstained , bedraggled rabbits with an air of being too polite to comment . |
| 16 | I found myself wandering round with a wry smile on my face and occasionally bursting into laughter at my own presumption . |
| 17 | I ca n't have you following me in there , peering round from the next stall . |
| 18 | The van , which had Vermstroy Pest Control Ltd , Ipswich and Nunes , painted on its side , was turning round on the open area in front of the garage . |
| 19 | You would n't find her going round with a dirty coat , no matter what day of the week . " |
| 20 | And er a gent used to have er a gentleman going round with a great long stick . |
| 21 | David Puttnam will be going round with a quiet smile on his face for a few days . |
| 22 | We had barely finished congratulating ourselves and going round with the good news when Mrs Maddock 's little boy from the post office ran to tell us it had been torn down . |
| 23 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 24 | As it goes r you 've heard something sort of er say an ashtray going round on a hard surface . |
| 25 | He goes out to work , that means he 's going round to the various houses and |
| 26 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 27 | The way now worked left across the slabby walls , moving round into the subtle , hidden corners , heading into the sun . |
| 28 | And a very good example , if you put these two together just to see what you can do by moving round to a different viewpoint . |
| 29 | Moving round to the other side of the bed , the nurse proceeded to change the bottle on the I.V . |
| 30 | ‘ Dutch elm disease is a terrible thing , ’ said Mr Molesworth , corning round for a second time . |