Example sentences of "they [vb base] round the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carefully they cut round the base with a knife , to free any wax that was sealing it down , and eased the skep up off the base stone . |
| 2 | Waves ignore frontiers and time-zones as they echo round the world . |
| 3 | The Upside Down Catfish tend to nip one another as they swim round the tank — they 've only been in the tank for five days , so would the nipping be due to the fact that they 're still settling in ? |
| 4 | Howard would like to put his arms about the whole team , as they crowd round the journal , smelling of shirts , and squeeze them all , and fuse them into one perfect corporate human being . |
| 5 | I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling . |
| 6 | The present owner of the rectory told me that one thing people notice when they go round the garden is that there are now no garage doors . |
| 7 | You get a sort of lighthouse flash from the headlights , as they swing round the curve there and out of sight . |