Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] round [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can hear a woman calling ‘ Benjy , Benjy ’ and I turn round to see what 's up . |
| 2 | I turn round to see a trail of spit running down the length of my left shoulder-blade . |
| 3 | The lights are off for a bit , so I turn round to look at her . |
| 4 | There 's this siren going behind me , getting louder and louder , and I turn round to have a look . |
| 5 | No it 's alright to laugh , I go round picking up . |
| 6 | I do n't know why , but he seems to detest me — every time I go round to see him he hisses at me . |
| 7 | I come round twitching and there was a face looking down at me . |
| 8 | There you are with some glum , drunken , disapproving monster and you creep round asking him what 's wrong and trying to cheer him up . ’ |
| 9 | Then you turn round to face the right . |
| 10 | once you go round buying two mugs now |
| 11 | ‘ They think if you go round hoping and faithing , you wo n't do anything about conditions on the streets , ’ said Constance . |
| 12 | In this instance you can put it across the eyebrow , right , across the eyebrow , ask them to hold it and if you 're doing a bandage like this the way to keep it on is to have one part of the bandage going above the ear and the next time you go round go below the ear right , go above the ear and the next time you go round go below the ear okay and then finally just tie it off , get the idea ? |
| 13 | In this instance you can put it across the eyebrow , right , across the eyebrow , ask them to hold it and if you 're doing a bandage like this the way to keep it on is to have one part of the bandage going above the ear and the next time you go round go below the ear right , go above the ear and the next time you go round go below the ear okay and then finally just tie it off , get the idea ? |
| 14 | All the things are out on counters and you go round helping yourself . ’ |
| 15 | It 's what you get when you go round having the dick . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If you go round saying that they 'll have you locked up in a padded cell . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's called feminism , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I hope you never get it , because it is absolutely awful and it makes you swell up to an enormous size and when you have it really badly you go round bonking men on the head and blaming them for everything . |
| 18 | Told him he did n't want to accept hospitality from patrons who go round cuckolding their players . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's none of our business , ’ said Sam , ‘ and if we go round wiping her tapes , she 'll know we 've been here . ’ |
| 20 | As they walked up towards the main road , he was surprised to see her turn round to wave at the policemen as if they were old friends . |
| 21 | F : they go round camping + |
| 22 | Bad in n it when they go round giving these areas for people . |
| 23 | But that that will be determined by the sales exec when they go round to sign the contract . |
| 24 | Think they go round travelling then like travelling salesman or something |
| 25 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |