Example sentences of "going round the bend " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chief Supt Strange , once a likeable fusspot , seems to be going round the bend , and Morse got the answer wrong a whole reel before the end . |
| 2 | I 'm going round the bend . ’ |
| 3 | McQueen was accompanied on location by Ali MacGraw , whom he had met on The Getaway , and whose presence he admitted saved him from going round the bend . |
| 4 | If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend . |
| 5 | But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay . |
| 6 | Her safety-valve , the thing that prevented her from going round the bend , was the fun of devising and dishing out these splendid punishments , and the lovely thing was that they seemed to work , at any rate for short periods . |
| 7 | I can see that I 'm going to have to expel as many of you as possible as soon as possible to save myself from going round the bend . ’ |
| 8 | Now there 're the lorries , and the see the N F T just up there going round the bend . |
| 9 | They want a haven for a few days to talk to some neutral listener while they conquer an impending sense of ‘ going round the bend ’ . |
| 10 | His wife is going round the bend , thinking he 's under suspicion , but I 'm sure she 's barking up the wrong tree . |