Example sentences of "round [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And say he 's round about the fortyish age and we spoke to him last week and I said you got a job yet ? |
| 2 | In his books on folk life — A Wiltshire Village ( 1912 ) , Villages of the White Horse ( 1913 ) , Round about the Upper Thames ( 1922 ) , Folk-Songs of the Upper Thames ( 1923 ) , and The Banks of Isis , serialized in the North Berkshire Herald in 1925 — he left , as he had hoped to do , ‘ a permanent record of the language and activities of the district in which I find myself ’ . |
| 3 | Athelstan whirled round as a loud snore from Cranston broke the silence . |
| 4 | The girl swung round as a silent invitation to follow , and led them past a tangled bunch of bicycles and a wall of political posters to hopeless causes . |
| 5 | He broke off abruptly , and Doyle glanced round as the sleepy shape of Stone 's young son , Nick , entered the room . |
| 6 | A winner at Aintree would round off a fabulous season . |
| 7 | Panning the camcorder , that is swinging it round through a horizontal arc , is a camera movement often used to excess by amateurs . |
| 8 | Then the feeling faded as the sun 's light shifted round through the billowing walls of the tent . |
| 9 | As it turns out , our long way round through the deaf community , its history , sign language , memory and interpreting has given us an understanding of the concept of Total Communication and of how it might fit into the world of deaf people . |
| 10 | Trent walked round through the lean-to kitchen and stood in the doorway , from where he could see into the restaurant . |
| 11 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 12 | Like many footballers at the twilight of their careers , Rough looked round for a suitable business interest and eventually opened his own shop in Musselburgh . |
| 13 | Whilst the lawyers were still sorting out his mothers estate he started looking round for a suitable business . |
| 14 | And while she 's on the job , she 'd better look round for a well-born filly for Timothy to marry . |
| 15 | I looked round for a split second . |
| 16 | I looked round for a living man to admire and follow . |
| 17 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 18 | She looked round for a plain grave . |
| 19 | The Board 's general counsel , Michael Friend , said afterwards : ‘ The finding was that he did change his scorecard at the qualifying round for the European Tour School last October , but the Board felt the sentence of 10 years was too severe given that it was a first offence . ’ |
| 20 | The top crews practice all year round for the premier event in the raft racing calendar . |
| 21 | I would therefore display a becoming restiveness , or look round for the usual dispatch-case , so that when he started slowly rising to his feet , which he did as if by some inner mechanism , I could , like an adjoining lift , follow him slightly behindhand . |
| 22 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , glancing round towards the french windows that led to the bar . |
| 23 | The wind was now veering round towards the stern quarter and increasing so that 4th-placed Herst/Stafford of Canada in the second semi capsized 20m from the line and lost their final place . |
| 24 | DANNY MEDDINGS continued his run of form with a surprisingly easy victory over Welsh No 1 , Adrian Davies , in last night 's opening round of the Daily Express British Players ' Championship at Cheshunt , Hertfordshire , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 25 | ON Saturday 130 of Britain 's fastest kart racing drivers will take part in the Townparks Car Sales sponsored opening round of the British championships for gearbox driven machines . |
| 26 | This feature encourages water that finds its way aboard over the weatherside to slip round behind the after coaming and exit over the lee quarter . |
| 27 | They drove in convoy round behind the great house , on a sopping weed-infested gravel drive , and pulled up in the stable-yard , where Roland helped Sir George to disembark the wheelchair and Lady Bailey . |
| 28 | To Ruth , crouching by Gran , he seemed hugely tall ; but he gazed round like a helpless child , seeming not to see them at first . |
| 29 | So , you ai n't got ta run round like a blue-arsed fly ! |
| 30 | What with him moping round like a wounded jelly just because Koo had given him the old Dear John , he was no damn use to anyone at all . |