Example sentences of "be [verb] round the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the end is coming , screens are placed round the bed ; in any case there are unlikely to be any ‘ last words ’ , because most of us die under some form of sedation . |
| 2 | At this point in his writing a white pigeon which had been fluttering round the swimming-pool alighted on the table , took two steps forward and excreted on the ‘ Jottings ’ , no doubt in the interests of historical accuracy . |
| 3 | ‘ Been hanging round the theatre again , darling ? |
| 4 | The living rooms are arranged round the atria . |
| 5 | The bright green , narrow , lance-shaped leaves are arranged round the stem . |
| 6 | And their which are guarded round the clock . |
| 7 | When the fingers are curled round the wire and the thumb points in the direction of the electron flow , the fingers will point in the direction of the current 's magnetic field . |
| 8 | The whole South Sussex team had been driving round the country in a vast aluminium horse box , evidently the latest thing in America , and Kevin had provided each player with four top-class ponies . |
| 9 | The squadron had been out on a practice bombing exercise and J. had been driving round the perimeter track that afternoon , inspecting the bomb bays of returned aircraft , and came back to park his vehicle in one of the empty hangars . |
| 10 | ‘ It was founded here in March 1928 , ’ says Billy , ‘ and since then members have been pedalling round the highways and byways of Ulster and further afield , even during the war years . |
| 11 | Generally the provisions affecting settled property properly so-called — where the property is held by trustees for administration in accordance with the terms of a deed of settlement — are framed round the conception of the trust beneficiary as the transferor of the property involved in any transfer of value which takes place in consequence of any dealing with the property by way of advances out of the capital or disposal of his beneficial interest or termination of that interest by surrender or on death . |
| 12 | The houses were each slightly different from each other ; here a window was larger , there a door had been moved round the corner — no-one family 's was quite the same as his neighbour 's . |
| 13 | As he spoke , he had been wandering round the room , picking up photographs , looking at books , standing in front of the pictures ; a sort of half-abstracted and apparently unemotional tour down Memory Lane . |
| 14 | They 're not having a cigar , they 're walking round the block . |
| 15 | Then we 're walking round the room and she 's holding my arm like we 're married and that . |
| 16 | Rory , everybody 's up , they 're walking round the house , they 'll come out for a breath of air if they do n't hear you , even . |
| 17 | Dad may be playing ostrich , but you 're clucking round the family business like a jealous hen — ’ |
| 18 | It 's the spiel we give out to the tourists if they happen to capture one of us when they 're wandering round the grounds . |
| 19 | ‘ Aye , we can talk about it — while we 're lookin' round the mud ruins of Chanchán . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ They 're living round the corner in the council yard . |
| 21 | Oh they 're going round the bay are they ? |
| 22 | When you 're going round the Fens , you must 've had a very early start in the morning , did you ? |
| 23 | We 're going round the M twenty five in |
| 24 | They 're going round the caravans . |
| 25 | We 're going round the corner to the egg man . |
| 26 | No , they 're going round the corner . |
| 27 | They 're going round the sides of a hollow . |
| 28 | Depending which way you 're coming round the corner . |
| 29 | And if you 're coming round the corner you 're not gon na knock that are you ? |
| 30 | It could n't be because golf carts — ’ he levelled a look at Nelson ‘ — are careening round the grounds with a complete lack of any regard for safety . |