Example sentences of "round [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The father was just moving round to sit at the head of the table when the mother came sweeping out of the kitchen carrying a huge plate piled high with eggs and sausages and bacon and tomatoes . |
| 2 | Ken Corduroy drove round to the Harrisons ' with an ingenious pool-cleaning device , a mechanical object that swam round scrubbing at the walls , he had ordered for them from England . |
| 3 | But it 's no way , I mean it was a really wet morning at quarter to seven , it had been raining , and he was right behind a lorry , and he , he , the lorry went to go one way and the he did n't go back because he knew he was going one way and the guy was going the other , he just started to go round to go to the left and bike was just there , he had no way of seeing him or he . |
| 4 | But you 've got to do the right kind of exercise to get the effect er and again when you come to stamina it 's got to be , you 've got to have a bit of the all round to go with the stamina . |
| 5 | He goes round banging on the barrels . ) |
| 6 | There was a museum on the southern shore , and the coast was lined by terraces of comfortable villas ; a band-stand occupied a prominent place on a new promenade , and at dusk a large crowd thronged round to listen to the music ministered to them by a company of musicians , what some call in Scotland a ‘ brass band . ’ |
| 7 | As they walked up towards the main road , he was surprised to see her turn round to wave at the policemen as if they were old friends . |
| 8 | We see this process of moving round re-enacted in the development of every young bony flatfish . |
| 9 | I actually started with eng civil engineer , going round looking for the camp site and then we did tramp the hills . |
| 10 | He 's been going round looking like the wrath of God . |
| 11 | He knew there was something odd , which was why he turned round to look into the wings , hoping for some signal from you . |
| 12 | Well no not really because erm it , it was a private company as you can understand er , I can I ca n't really explain it everyone seemed to be pulling together you know that was the last thing you thought of , fifth columnists , things like that although it was they used to er , every now and again they used to send government national service officers round to look at the personnel and the structure of the working and if they thought anybody was superfluous to requirements they 'd get the papers soon after to go into the army or the services yeah , yeah , that is true and that happened , used to happen in factories all round the area , it was called the Essential Works Order . |
| 13 | Zach threw back the lid in triumph and the twins and George gathered round to look at the contents . |
| 14 | Charles felt the blood trickling down his leg into his wet sock and , still keeping low behind a rock , rolled round to look at the wound . |
| 15 | I had crawled into mine and was turning round peering into the dark where many people sat eating popcorn and candy . |
| 16 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 17 | It swung round to park alongside the dais , where little Otaki was waiting to receive the keys from R. J. O. Bryer Esq . |
| 18 | In this instance you can put it across the eyebrow , right , across the eyebrow , ask them to hold it and if you 're doing a bandage like this the way to keep it on is to have one part of the bandage going above the ear and the next time you go round go below the ear right , go above the ear and the next time you go round go below the ear okay and then finally just tie it off , get the idea ? |
| 19 | In this instance you can put it across the eyebrow , right , across the eyebrow , ask them to hold it and if you 're doing a bandage like this the way to keep it on is to have one part of the bandage going above the ear and the next time you go round go below the ear right , go above the ear and the next time you go round go below the ear okay and then finally just tie it off , get the idea ? |
| 20 | Roll out the fondant icing into a large round or square ( depending on the size and shape of the cake to be covered ) , about 10cm ( 4inches ) larger all round to allow for the sides . |
| 21 | And when the time comes round to return to the office , it 's just five miles to the M 5 motorway . |
| 22 | After another step or two the man stopped and turned round to speak to the parson . |
| 23 | I went round commiserating with the ones I knew , pointing out that if the lady with the bosom was as late as she normally was , the reception would undoubtedly extend into licensing hours . |