Example sentences of "go round [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Lincoln was criticized , attacked for this , that er and he said in response to this the attention of the country has been called to the proposition that one who is sworn as the constitution says to take care that the laws be faithfully executed should himself not violate those laws a fairly reasonable proposition you might think , if your oath says to uphold the law then you start going round breaking the law er something wrong here somewhere methinks . |
| 2 | There are no bureaucrats going round counting the jobs that never happened , the jobs that went away or the small firms that have packed up because they could no longer make a profit under the new controls and restrictions on their work force . |
| 3 | And e every week the admiralty had a clerk of works going round watching the progress . |
| 4 | Erm so really and truly i i you know with what we 'd got it was sort of carrying the business on in a very sort of low way and instead of going round collecting the work it was all done through the post . |
| 5 | ‘ Why the hell ca n't we have some proper light in here ? ’ he complained as he strode in , snapping on the electric lights and going round dousing the candles . |
| 6 | There 's this man on this big white car thing going round cleaning the floor . |
| 7 | One of the loopier producers is going round saying the office is haunted . ’ |
| 8 | Our marketing our marketing er group has gone around to all the erm er the clients within that market place erm , well not all of them at least they 're gradually going round signing the contract to take the product . |
| 9 | It 's what you get when you go round having the dick . ’ |
| 10 | Get rid of Norman for a start ; you ca n't have a chancellor who goes round telling the voters ‘ Je ne regrette rien ’ , when lots of them have lost their jobs and their homes because of what he does n't regret . |
| 11 | One of them goes round putting the chimneys on and the other checks the flue . |
| 12 | Erm and our marketing executive who goes round signing the surgery up leaves a certain amount of information er and particularly these erm a sheet si similar to this with er we ask the practice to sit down and compile a list of businesses . |
| 13 | When er the sales exec for marketing goes round doing the contract bits and pieces er they he or she and the surgery the doctors ' senior partners or all the doctors will agree on the number of booklets we 're going to print . |
| 14 | They then have to go round making the noise of that animal . |