Example sentences of "[pron] round [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , we had someone round to see the house yesterday . |
| 2 | The council may send someone round to look at your home . |
| 3 | Just as we were about to send someone round to check his milk bottles on Monday , he walked into the office . |
| 4 | — Even sent somebody round to help me do it . ’ |
| 5 | All they did was take photographs and , and send somebody round to try and stop us getting a home here ! |
| 6 | One round to go and only two points separated the top four teams . |
| 7 | With one round to play , she was as many as three shots ahead of Australia 's Nadene Hall , a gifted girl playing on a British links for a first time . |
| 8 | I think that Sunday she 's free , but I 've got to get at her , and on Monday I 've got to go up to walk her round to see her . |
| 9 | He put down his glass and took hers from fingers which were inexplicably trembling , then twisted her round to inspect her back , ‘ You 've had your back in the sun . |
| 10 | Then he 'd turned her round to admire her . |
| 11 | Roman laughed suddenly , catching her by the shoulders and twisting her round to face him . |
| 12 | She took her by the shoulders and turned her round to face the house . |
| 13 | An almost irresistible magnetism was pulling her round to face him , eye to eye . |
| 14 | But , even as she wondered , she felt the arm at her waist tighten as , gently , he drew her round to face him . |
| 15 | Dragging her round to face him , he framed her desolate face with warm palms . |
| 16 | Striding over to her , he caught her arm and swung her round to face him . |
| 17 | He had sensed her unease , stopping in his stride to swing her round to face him . |
| 18 | His last words came in a soft murmur as he stepped across the path to clasp her arm and swing her round to face him . |
| 19 | Doreen grabbed her arm , swinging her round to face her again . |
| 20 | She twisted away from his hand , but he caught hold of her arm as she tried to push past him , swinging her round to face him , pulling her against him . |
| 21 | Leonora turned away blindly , and Penry caught her by the shoulders , forcing her round to face him . |
| 22 | It was Ace 's hand on her arm that swung her round to meet him , her face full of frightened guilt . |
| 23 | But what do you want now ? — for me to send him round to say sorry ? ’ |
| 24 | He made it without difficulty on to his raft , swinging it round to join the group he had noticed dropping away to his left ; and was overturned by a breaking wave . |
| 25 | He had stopped prowling to lift a dining chair from its place beside a circular dining table , swinging it round to sit astride it , resting his arms along its back and meeting Gina 's quizzical gaze with a rueful smile . |
| 26 | The small boat skipper then holds the sensor in his hand and moves it round to pinpoint the source accurately . |
| 27 | When they got near the large boxes , Christopher stood up inside the car and lifted it round to turn it . |
| 28 | She reversed the car out and swung it round to give Billy room to put his in its place . |
| 29 | Lee pushed the nail through , working it round to make a hole . |
| 30 | You can also adapt this design by turning it round to make a landscape design , so that the curve resembles a flattened horseshoe . |