Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb base] round the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ By 12.45 am restaurant time is over , so we look round the nightclubs . |
| 3 | If we walk round the towns and villages we will not find the acquisitiveness and competitiveness of modernity . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's the same when I go round the schools . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Trace the eras of fortification as you wander round the Roman ruins and enter the courtyard and rooms of the castle through the gatehouse . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As we sit round the set , |
| 13 | New Zealand I hope to visit myself probably on my way home as we come round the Horn and thereby circumnavigate the globe ! ! ! |
| 14 | I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling . |
| 15 | You get a sort of lighthouse flash from the headlights , as they swing round the curve there and out of sight . |
| 16 | The Marquee crowd — a muddle of college indie kids and rock fans in assorted Gunners chic — react with an equal mix of abandon and pose , the kids at the front looking like they 've got heads on springs as they crowd round the monitors . |
| 17 | Howard would like to put his arms about the whole team , as they crowd round the journal , smelling of shirts , and squeeze them all , and fuse them into one perfect corporate human being . |
| 18 | As they pass round the Polos and packs of Durex . |
| 19 | Waves ignore frontiers and time-zones as they echo round the world . |
| 20 | The Upside Down Catfish tend to nip one another as they swim round the tank — they 've only been in the tank for five days , so would the nipping be due to the fact that they 're still settling in ? |