Example sentences of "came round [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he was extremely annoyed that evening when he came round at the interval . |
| 2 | Entering the competition was entirely Barbara 's idea and when the phone call came through to say they 'd won , Betty was quite shocked to discover that she , too , was going to London to have a makeover — but she soon came round to the idea ! |
| 3 | Er , just this this woman came round to the door last night and said well er , you know the in bi English Dictionary ? |
| 4 | ‘ Chap came round to the Palladium one night , said we could be in it if we liked , only there was no money , just publicity . |
| 5 | He stepped back onto the concrete and came round to the front of the building where the flowering cherries were just coming into bud on the lawn . |
| 6 | As Duncan opened the back door to put his suitcase in , Myeloski came round to the passenger side of the car . |
| 7 | They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat . |
| 8 | That fact that it was over was all there in his formal goodbye when he came round to the passenger 's side and stood on the pavement with her , and , ‘ Na shledanou , Fabia , ’ he wished her . |
| 9 | As was proved when , without replying to her question about the interview , he left the driver 's seat and came round to the passenger 's door . |
| 10 | Subsequently he changed his mind , possibly in relation to pressure from outside , possibly in an attempt to make psychoanalysis more acceptable , possibly because he could n't come to terms with the fact himself and he then came round to the point of view that these were fantasised seductions as he called them . |
| 11 | and so he came round with the bread and he said I 'll let you have the recipe and I thought , so I am now |
| 12 | You were let out four times a day for slop-out , when they came round with the trolley and collected the plates . |
| 13 | And er Oh and if he If the time of the the er tinkers that they came round , if they came round about the time of the the pig killing they would look for the piece of bacon . |
| 14 | So we were back before the firebox , exhausted and happy , and Laura had just shut down the kiln , when Edward came round into the yard again . |
| 15 | But Dawn Run was not a horse to give in meekly , and as the four came round into the straight she stuck resolutely to her guns . |
| 16 | ‘ When I came round after the operation I asked the doctors if they would let me have the screws . |
| 17 | Usually the horseman on the farm — the head horseman — came round after the harvest and made a collection from the various tradesmen who 'd had business with the farm — saddler , farrier , wheelwright and so on . |
| 18 | When she came round after the anaesthetic the first thing she says to the nurse is , Well , was I or was n't I ? |
| 19 | ‘ He does n't usually throw tantrums , ’ Ashley said ruefully , as Vitor came round from the boot , ‘ but he has had a very long day . ’ |
| 20 | He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink . |
| 21 | When I came round from the chloroform I was in bed . |
| 22 | The CAT scan apparently showed no damage to the brain , so it was something of a shock to the doctors as well as to Dawn 's parents when she finally came round from the coma after about a week with a left hemiplegia . |
| 23 | When they came round in the valley , they were entertained with every delightful variant of wine , women and song promised in the holy scriptures to those who would go to Paradise . |
| 24 | I eventually came round in the Chamden General Hospital and on the slab next to me was club chairman , Ken Mentle , an oxygen pump beside him , a nurse frantically thumping his chest and Ken rambling deliriously about a Micky Deere scorcher from the penalty spot which had given us victory . |
| 25 | Fred and then they all came round in the evening , and then on S Sunday , went to church and were invited out for lunch , and I went to see my mummy and daddy . |
| 26 | It , just before we set off they came round in the car and they had a loaf for me . |
| 27 | I had one night of that , and when he came round in the morning , I told him . |