Example sentences of "come round [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is understood that most of the Sun 's employees , including vice presidents , have come round to the idea of embracing Motif in some shape or form , but there remains one unswerving voice . |
| 2 | SOCIAL ‘ Sociologists apparently have come round to the belief that 50 per cent of middle-class parents who send their children to private schools would be happy to put them in the state system if dinner money was renamed lunch money . ’ |
| 3 | Although primarily Unix focused , Unify has now come round to the view that the success of Windows and probable success of NT can not be ignored . |
| 4 | However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced . |
| 5 | Having read some of the recent articles on the Batty move in parallel with ‘ What happened to ex-players , I have come round to the view that Batty was probably right to move . |
| 6 | The doctor said the driver should have come round from the anaesthetic by now . ’ |
| 7 | Nonindividualistic conceptions are likely to be among the expensive tastes since their realization depends on the cooperation of others , and they will take some convincing to come round to the agent 's point of view . |
| 8 | At the congress Carlsson declared that the emergence of a new security system in Europe based on the 1975 Helsinki accords meant that Sweden 's neutrality no longer " bore the same heavy burden " , and the party began to come round to the view of both industry and the two major opposition parties ( M and Fp ) that Sweden should apply for membership of the European Communities ( EC , which it did in July 1991 — see p. 38353 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ A ’ and the other girls used to come round to the house asking me to do their hair or their eyebrows . |
| 10 | He used to come round to the house , a few years ago , before he took up so much with the Labour Party . " |
| 11 | And he was extremely annoyed that evening when he came round at the interval . |
| 12 | Entering the competition was entirely Barbara 's idea and when the phone call came through to say they 'd won , Betty was quite shocked to discover that she , too , was going to London to have a makeover — but she soon came round to the idea ! |
| 13 | Er , just this this woman came round to the door last night and said well er , you know the in bi English Dictionary ? |
| 14 | ‘ Chap came round to the Palladium one night , said we could be in it if we liked , only there was no money , just publicity . |
| 15 | He stepped back onto the concrete and came round to the front of the building where the flowering cherries were just coming into bud on the lawn . |
| 16 | As Duncan opened the back door to put his suitcase in , Myeloski came round to the passenger side of the car . |
| 17 | They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat . |
| 18 | That fact that it was over was all there in his formal goodbye when he came round to the passenger 's side and stood on the pavement with her , and , ‘ Na shledanou , Fabia , ’ he wished her . |
| 19 | As was proved when , without replying to her question about the interview , he left the driver 's seat and came round to the passenger 's door . |
| 20 | Subsequently he changed his mind , possibly in relation to pressure from outside , possibly in an attempt to make psychoanalysis more acceptable , possibly because he could n't come to terms with the fact himself and he then came round to the point of view that these were fantasised seductions as he called them . |
| 21 | and so he came round with the bread and he said I 'll let you have the recipe and I thought , so I am now |
| 22 | You were let out four times a day for slop-out , when they came round with the trolley and collected the plates . |
| 23 | And er Oh and if he If the time of the the er tinkers that they came round , if they came round about the time of the the pig killing they would look for the piece of bacon . |
| 24 | So we were back before the firebox , exhausted and happy , and Laura had just shut down the kiln , when Edward came round into the yard again . |
| 25 | But Dawn Run was not a horse to give in meekly , and as the four came round into the straight she stuck resolutely to her guns . |
| 26 | ‘ When I came round after the operation I asked the doctors if they would let me have the screws . |
| 27 | Usually the horseman on the farm — the head horseman — came round after the harvest and made a collection from the various tradesmen who 'd had business with the farm — saddler , farrier , wheelwright and so on . |
| 28 | When she came round after the anaesthetic the first thing she says to the nurse is , Well , was I or was n't I ? |
| 29 | ‘ He does n't usually throw tantrums , ’ Ashley said ruefully , as Vitor came round from the boot , ‘ but he has had a very long day . ’ |
| 30 | He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink . |