Example sentences of "round [coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 and it was just a case of erm pot luck , I would sort of brought it out and looked at it and , er no it was n't cooked , it was cooked on the edges so I turned it over and turned it round and put it back in again .
2 She tried to push past him , to get to the door , but he caught hold of her arm , spun her round and bundled her back into the lounge .
3 I think it 's only a question of taking it out turning it round and screwing it back in again .
4 He turned round and kicked me out of the classroom for doing it .
5 I grabbed his wrist and broke it , spinning him round and holding him up .
6 Turn round and take me back . ’
7 He did n't want a job that 's what he had said he wanted to have time out he did n't want a job he could get a job when he wanted to , he ca n't now turn round and blame it on
8 But I then put the Whitley into the most desperate dive , everything in the cabin was floating , and before the Foxes could turn round and do anything about , it I was over the Channel , I landed at Manston where I was put under arrest immediately .
9 But my friends really got me out afterwards , they came round and took me out .
10 You push it in the stack , mist it round and pull it out like that ; and then smell the hay that comes out on its end .
11 Nigel rallied round and asked her out for a drink .
12 I 'm gon na go round and collect everything up and pack it up .
13 I said that 's how you got to do it and then I come round and pick them up when
14 It 's difficult to judge the especially when the person that you for by someone just popping round and picking something up and they stay for ages , and they did n't know I was taping and then something clicked up in the middle of it .
15 All that remains is to wrap the covering material round and glue it down to the boards .
16 He got out of the car , slammed the door , strode round and hauled her out , dragging her into the villa behind him .
17 He dragged a bag out , turned it round and pushed it back in exactly the same position .
18 If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy .
19 ‘ So you went round and turned him out ? ’
20 Cheeky oh , you , this thing under there like that I think I 'm tired , just have me water on , I think , I had the gas fire up and I turned round and turned it off
21 ‘ Come round and beat me up , then , Maria , ’ he invited her , holding out a hand .
22 ‘ Do n't want you collapsing on us — not good for the department 's reputation , ’ she joked lightly , and wheeled him round and handed him over to his wife .
23 same lines , but , he know he , you assume that as soon as you got outside him , that bloody draft would come round and push him back and the other bloke would carry on .
24 At 78 he still refused to stop work : ‘ My advice to parents is not to give up to the rising generation the place you have occupied in the world so long , because there are some who are very near to you who would turn round and put you out homeless and penniless . ’
25 His whole body felt bruised from the speed at which Doyle had dragged him round and thrown him on to the floor when they heard the shout outside .
26 Strong hands turned him round and helped him out into the street again .
27 So luckily , they like drove round and picked me up
28 When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist .
29 So it was a case there , and course at the end of the day you rolled the little roll up , put elastic round and stood them up in a file and they stood there like little soldiers and you could always go back to the actual time , sometimes you found a man had n't re erm signed on , he 'd just gone and joined his bus up in town centre , well you , that was er subject of another letter .
30 Sheepdogs are difficult to teach to drive the flock away from the shepherd — the dog has to be restrained from its desire to circle round and drive them back .
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