Example sentences of "[noun pl] round [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lads used to sing them like when er , but as I say , it was n't anybody only just the kids round as we played about with you know . |
| 2 | They 've made all the little white blobs round and symmetrical . |
| 3 | She began to turn the pictures round and flap at the mantelpiece with a duster . |
| 4 | And at that moment , the two people that usually took over from us came round the corner , poked their heads round and said ‘ Oh hello , fancy seeing you here , we just thought we 'd pop round to say goodbye . ’ |
| 5 | I used to do , get them to have all their heads round and go round and do them . |
| 6 | Also , all chest exercise must be balanced by back training , otherwise the chest muscles will begin to pull the shoulders round and the weaker , untrained back muscles will be unable to counteract the pull . |
| 7 | The whole face was transfigured , the eyes round and bright and she was sitting there speechless , quite beautiful in a blaze of silence . |
| 8 | Trapped beneath the twisted fingers , Matthew wriggled uncomfortably , his brown eyes round and bulbous with fear . |
| 9 | Alyssia turned to face him , her eyes round and innocent . |
| 10 | She swivelled her eyes round and paused for a moment as they meshed with Jake 's . |
| 11 | He said that 's when they put presents round and er he come in on the Friday on the Friday night and I mean I was in a right state , I mean we 've been in there about seven weeks and I was like at the point of like a nervous breakdown and he said to me how do you feel about me taking Matthew from you , so I said I he said I think you need a break . |
| 12 | I tried to push her knees round but there was n't enough room ; I was wedged in the doorway , her arm still half round my neck . |
| 13 | And he was sort of he managed to get his legs round but he just could n't quite get his body up to sit up . |
| 14 | Harvey split the words into syllables and made each syllable a step in his dance , then he changed the accents round and danced the same remark again . |
| 15 | ' — but how many times have I stood and laughed as that man on the hobbyhorse , a fool , an outsider to the troupe , prances round and through the dancers ? |
| 16 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |
| 17 | Many less well-equipped ships would have gone through that interlink only at Firstlight speed , and then nervously — because of the horror tales of ships that slid through the wrong slots and were caught in endless loops round and round the interlink for centuries . |
| 18 | They used to send the stewards round and er you you 'd suddenly see two new people in the congregation and they 'd come to hear the minister preach to see if he was a good preacher and then they 'd go back to report . |
| 19 | Still further off the bay curls round and vanishes in mist . |
| 20 | They could send their snoopers round and it would n't matter . |
| 21 | And then you you used to have a blow lamp to heat it up and after that you you erm put it on half compression and you were turning one of the big flywheels round until it it started and you had to keep the blowlamp on it . |
| 22 | He then leans forward , and is guided up and round , so that he pivots to swing his hips round and onto the chair . |
| 23 | He felt that if he waltzed his dancers round and round as in a ballroom he would not be interpreting Chopin 's idealised romantic waltzes for a solo pianist . |
| 24 | Most house sellers use an estate agent , who will help set a selling price , circulate your property 's details to potential buyers , put up a For Sale sign , arrange appointments , take viewers round and negotiate the sale . |
| 25 | We co we 've tried to pull , but if you pull all the , swap the the leads round or shove the brush leads round which is the obvious thing to do in that case , you know , er in that no they 're successfully sparking excessively . |
| 26 | There 's no harm could come to me here , with good neighbours round and about all the while . |
| 27 | er what happened were , er she got this brass bottom and brass top and it 's like , was up like that and she 's got curtains round and drapes like that |
| 28 | Invite a couple of footy-mad friends round and you 'll all be over the moon . |
| 29 | On a warm sunny evening , it 's always a pleasure to invite friends round and dine alfresco . |
| 30 | We used to have a clock and the teacher used to turn its hands round and say , ‘ Now what time is it ? ’ |