Example sentences of "round [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun was a great cauldron of red , painting the edges of clouds that swung round ponderously in the sky like a child 's mobile . |
| 2 | Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out . |
| 3 | She turned round slowly on the spot , critically examining the contours of the park 's three little hills ( like molehills , Clare told herself ) against the grey sky . |
| 4 | is that erm , have you ever been to it where there 's like a ledge up here you know where you can ski round slowly down the mountain and then there 's a part here and then there 's a run going down there like that sort of thing . |
| 5 | After she had gone , Doctor Sparrow swung round slowly in the chair , hands behind his head , annoyed , angry , concerned . |
| 6 | Chase , goes round all over the place do n't he ? |
| 7 | rushing round inside of the literally going round the worlds and then down and then . |
| 8 | In fact , she did possess mettle , though going round alone in the jeep was — I believe — just feminine carelessness , like the terrible state she 'd leave her room in for her maid : powder everywhere , pink for face , white for body ; her long , strong , glossy hairs in the sink , so you would have thought the orang-utan had been availing himself of the facilities and not a pretty young woman of thirty-one . |
| 9 | Right from the first day of term the two of them started wandering round together during the morning-break and in the lunch-hour . |
| 10 | The floor was of polished cedar wood and I glanced round enviously at the stools covered with red satin and silver tassels : ‘ T.C. ’ , Wolsey 's personal monogram , was everywhere , sometimes a foot high in carved gold . |
| 11 | It was as she was passing through the drawing-room that she paused for a moment to glance round admiringly at the décor . |
| 12 | Harry looked round desperately for the O'Hanlons to assist him , but the O'Hanlons had fainted at the very outset and had been dragged clear by Ram , who was now trying to fan them back to consciousness with a copy of the Illustrated London News . |
| 13 | So we 're round outside after the game and down the road after them . |
| 14 | With a pair of sharp scissors cut round just above the machine stitches . |
| 15 | The circular stapling gun was then introduced through an anterior gastrostomy and opened in the lower oesophagus when a nylon or silk ligature was tied round just at the gastrooesophageal junction . |
| 16 | He stopped and turned round just before the drive . |
| 17 | The larvae can dive straight out of the grains of sand into your skin , and for weeks you itch and get blisters as the larvae spiral round and round just beneath the skin , leaving patterns behind . |
| 18 | If we make up a helical coil ( Fig. 4.2(b) ) the wires are going round always in the same direction so the voltages simply add and we may rewrite eqn ( 4.13 ) in the form |
| 19 | When the London staff , gathered round specially for the occasion , began to deliver their verdict and the litany began to roll , Sutton was staggered by their ferocity . |
| 20 | An old method that is still worth trying is to soak-spray the plants and soil all round early in the new year with Bordeaux mixture ( this can be bought as a proprietary mixture ready for mixing ) that combines the fungicidal properties of copper and sulphur . |
| 21 | I am thin but I can hardly move my bulk , I go round and round numbly under the ice of the North Pole . |
| 22 | But things have turned round slightly in the last few weeks and erm the players have got themselves together and erm we 've managed to string a few results together . |
| 23 | You do n't realize and then you thi you 've got these three bodies all wrapped round me and me er sort of walking round cheerily down the road with them . |
| 24 | Rachel swung round indignantly from the filing cabinet which she had just unlocked ready to take out the records for that morning 's surgery . |
| 25 | Several more ladies looked round sharply at the tea table , as Mrs Frizzell tried to snatch her purchases back . |
| 26 | Kolchinsky looked round sharply at the face peering through the open passenger-door window . |
| 27 | The man looked round sharply at the figure who had emerged silently from inside the bar . |
| 28 | ‘ Sit , girls , ’ she said , looking round severely at the rows of pupils . |
| 29 | He looked round questioningly towards the river . |
| 30 | I would think it would , yes , I would think it would be people , more and more people are coming round today with the idea that people need to go away , send somebody to get something . |