Example sentences of "going round the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I keep going round the painting seeing extra bits that need to be emphasised , or perhaps to blend in too start a line . |
| 2 | Let all the damn horses out — I 've spent all morning going round the lanes rounding the brutes up again ! ‘ |
| 3 | After the programme I spend several hours just going round the wards chatting to the patients and collecting requests for my Sunday show . |
| 4 | He 'd been going round the beat supping this over-proofed rum from the Customs . |
| 5 | ‘ I know a lady lawyer who can get you off , even if you 've been going round the shops buying poison , ’ he said . |
| 6 | And they have held their own popular vote , not in an assembly , as that would have been too dangerous , but going round the community asking their opinion , so now they have " elected " a very courageous woman whom they want to be their Mayoress when the FDR-FMLN take power . |
| 7 | Some kind of Gerald Durrell character , is he , going round the world collecting creepy-crawlies ? |
| 8 | As soon as he got out and about he was going round the house looking for you and then he just stood at the bottom of the stairs and banged until I took him upstairs and he could have a look round up there and then he realized you were n't there |