Example sentences of "they [verb] round [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's a manager , your dad , is n't he ? ’ asked Jamie Shepherd a few minutes later as they bounced round a corner with the old van rattling as if it was going to shake itself to bits at any moment . |
| 2 | He shrugged , feeding the steering-wheel expertly through his hands as they roared round a corner . |
| 3 | They drove round a corner and the next thing they heard was gunfire . |
| 4 | As they came round a bend they met a lorry overtaking a tractor . |
| 5 | ‘ Look around you , ’ Scathach hissed suddenly as they came round a curve in the river , riding slowly . |
| 6 | ‘ Look around you , ’ Scathach hissed suddenly as they came round a curve in the river , riding slowly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Waves ignore frontiers and time-zones as they echo round the world . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | ‘ Of course I 've got a plan , and you 'll see what it is in a few moments , if you 're too stupid to guess before that — ’ They swung round a bend and he swore suddenly and loudly . |
| 11 | The Marquee crowd — a muddle of college indie kids and rock fans in assorted Gunners chic — react with an equal mix of abandon and pose , the kids at the front looking like they 've got heads on springs as they crowd round the monitors . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As they pass round the Polos and packs of Durex . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Once when they went round a corner she swayed against him and caught his arm to steady herself . |
| 17 | Though she was huddled in the corner as far from him as she could get , the car was n't very big , and every time they went round a corner his thigh and shoulder pressed against hers . |
| 18 | They jogged round a corner , and found themselves in what passed for the town square of Dead Rat , Arizona . |
| 19 | You get a sort of lighthouse flash from the headlights , as they swing round the curve there and out of sight . |