Example sentences of "round [coord] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quiet and there was no one about : no stray dogs barking and running loose , no bored kids riding round and round on bikes on the tarmac-and-broken-glass wastelands of open ‘ play areas ’ . |
| 2 | From then on I began to interpret each nocturnal sound as a footstep or as a bolt sliding back , and in the misery of the night I turned round and round in bed , my nightdress winding itself tighter and tighter about me , while a little voice inside me complained , ‘ I tried to do right , and now look what you 've done to me . |
| 3 | It would be like taking London 's M25 or Washington 's beltway , in the hope of getting somewhere ; all you would do is go round and round in circles . |
| 4 | A shoal of stout brown fish swam round and round in circles in a ghostly saraband before making their way to the entrance to the stream . |
| 5 | Daisy , taking advantage of the disturbance , was adding gleefully to the chaos by bleating continuously , and rushing round and round in circles so that her tethering chain was soon shortened to a couple of feet . |
| 6 | Possibly this is why the argument as to whether it is better for a woman with young children to stay at home or go out to work goes round and round in circles . |
| 7 | The discussion went round and round in circles as many of the men present refused to face the reality of the issue . |
| 8 | And instead of heading north he simply went round and round in circles until he was found in Brandon , Suffolk . |
| 9 | Why do I keep walking round and round in circles ? |
| 10 | It should not be a series of coded sign-posts that only a small élite can decode and which lead us round and round in circles . |
| 11 | As it crawls round and round in circles it keeps revisiting the same pebbles . |
| 12 | and er with my son particularly earlier on in his career things were going round and round in circles and in the end I had to step in at one point , grab all the papers as they came past as they were and saying , come on . |
| 13 | And it 's raw linseed oil , you dip your you have it in a dish and you dip this pad into the into this dish and you put a little drop of raw linseed oil on that , and you work it in and you go round and round in circles and you you know , I mean , and that 's left . |
| 14 | And then that makes it even worse because you go round and round in circles , and you know and the more |
| 15 | A tilt to the left and it had taken his wing and was driving him back down to the ground ; correction to the right and it was at him that way , turning him round and out of control . |