Example sentences of "i [verb] round the [noun] " 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 cut round the Guildhall , almost taking out a couple of early season French tourists who had n't got the hang of looking left first before they crossed the road , and through on to Moorgate . |
| 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 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 . |
| 11 | I go round the bend just looking after kids all day . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've tried to impress on people - I go round the schools and catch them young — that if they do n't leave us their stuff , uncaring descendants may simply throw out a tool , plate , picture or letter , preferring to have a stainless-steel fork , a plastic plate , a multiple … ’ |
| 13 | It 's the same when I go round the schools . |
| 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 wander round the park a bit looking at the trees and stuff . |
| 16 | I float round the house — Elizabeth Barrett Lipman . |