Example sentences of "i [verb] round [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dance round the kitchen table , twirling the hat on my hand , so that the ribbons fly out behind it . |
| 2 | I peer round a stack of Hovis loaves and see Stewpid just entering the doors with Simon right behind him , no Jonathan though , slow-footed halfwit . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I walk round the room sort of smiling and sometimes waving or stopping to talk to someone . |
| 5 | I look round the room , but I ca n't find it . |
| 6 | I look round the room quick to make sure it 's neat looking . |
| 7 | I look round the room . |
| 8 | I hang round the station a bit , watching the people all hurrying to catch their trains . |
| 9 | I glance round the hall like I 've come to change the wallpaper , thirty years late . |
| 10 | I glanced round a couple of times expecting him to appear through the trees with a mouthful of oaths and a loud ‘ Come on , Boyo ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | … those countries which I could not visit in my proper person , I have so attentively read about , that as I turn round a globe I can almost fancy that I know the appearance and characters of the portions of the great world itself which lie mapped out under my eye , and observe all that is going forward on its surface . |
| 13 | I go round the bend just looking after kids all day . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I went round a house the other week the kid had been caught shoplifting and the father wanted to fight me . |
| 16 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
| 17 | I wander round the park a bit looking at the trees and stuff . |
| 18 | I float round the house — Elizabeth Barrett Lipman . |