Example sentences of "[verb] all round [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well tha no that was n't padded that was for do n't quite know what they wanted to do with that erm but there was erm a face that was built up with three different sizes of felt , small , next size , next size up , not not much bigger each time , then you had a piece of calico a little bit bigger , you did a running thread all round the outside and pulled it so that it , lapped over the felt which you had stitched down first . |
| 2 | Adult males are nomadic , wandering all round the polar ice cap and living mainly off seals . |
| 3 | A good friend of mine , in the same set for physics and chemistry , grew so disturbed that he took some scissors and cut all round the stiff white collars , which we have to wear on Sundays , and made them into little points . " |
| 4 | Lavender 's use can be traced back to the Greeks and Romans and it is more than likely that it was used all round the Mediterranean by Egyptians , Arabs , and Sumerians for a variety of domestic , cosmetic and perfumery needs . |
| 5 | Introduced to Britain by the Romans and to North America by its first settlers , it has long been used all round the Mediterranean bowl , and continues to be used there today . |
| 6 | The thin basal member of the Trias , only a few feet thick , can be found all round the Alpine chain . |
| 7 | ever so well , they go all round the old erm villages wa erm Weemington and eighty pound a week he gets ! |
| 8 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 9 | Sadly , there are no volcanoes on the South Island of New Zealand , and the volcanic chain we have been following all round the pacific seems to fizzle out there . |