Example sentences of "[verb] round [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those who can not get down into a bath at all ( as is the case with many back-sufferers and arthritics ) , a shower fitment at one end of the bath , with nylon shower-proof curtains to pull round inside the bath , is one of the best answers . |
| 2 | Under the old community the harvest was the climax of the rural year , not merely an incident in the more mechanical and depersonalized round on the farm as it has become today . |
| 3 | It is understood that most of the Sun 's employees , including vice presidents , have come round to the idea of embracing Motif in some shape or form , but there remains one unswerving voice . |
| 4 | SOCIAL ‘ Sociologists apparently have come round to the belief that 50 per cent of middle-class parents who send their children to private schools would be happy to put them in the state system if dinner money was renamed lunch money . ’ |
| 5 | Although primarily Unix focused , Unify has now come round to the view that the success of Windows and probable success of NT can not be ignored . |
| 6 | However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced . |
| 7 | Having read some of the recent articles on the Batty move in parallel with ‘ What happened to ex-players , I have come round to the view that Batty was probably right to move . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's this competitive rugby survey thing that 's come round from The Times , ’ said Reg Certes , the club secretary . |
| 9 | The doctor said the driver should have come round from the anaesthetic by now . ’ |
| 10 | The next whiz round with the vacuum , oh dear Jackie 's got her new car now , then |
| 11 | It was then that the wind changed round to the north-west and the first , and worst , of the storms hit the Flamingo . |
| 12 | And she insisted on being chauffeured round in a Daimler — just like the Queen . |
| 13 | She dropped down and started groping round on the floor as the bus sped down the long hill into town . |
| 14 | Finding himself with nine months to kill between school and university he cast round for a job . |
| 15 | And turning to his colleague he said , ‘ Charley , keep an eye on these buggers while I nip round to the station . ’ |
| 16 | If I just nip round to the drawings I 'll just give you an indication of of what exactly we 're , we 're doing . |
| 17 | I 'd grab my jacket , and parcel , then nip round to the customer with it — by foot ( shank 's pony ) . |
| 18 | Just nip round to the supermarket now and stock up on the latest in buffet catering . |
| 19 | Frenchman Roger Yves Bost , a member of the French World Gold Medal winning team in 1990 , scorched round in a time more fitting to a speed class . |
| 20 | He was too clever not to realize that harbouring the Shah increased the danger of Muslim fundamentalism gaining round in the kingdom . |
| 21 | She peered round for the nuns , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 22 | She pushed the gate further open and peered round in the twilight . |
| 23 | THE honours were shared at todays opening round of the Ulster Motocross championships at Desertmartin were Philip Neill and David White collected maximum points in the opening races . |
| 24 | Nor were the financial departments in France and Germany in any way independent of the royal household , even though in the nature of things the royal treasury could not be carried round with the king on his travels in quite the way in which the relics were . |
| 25 | They can be carried round in the pocket and referred to frequently — on the bus , while taking the dog for a walk , while shaving , almost anywhere . |
| 26 | I stayed at the Cove watching cloud shadows racing across the great limestone cliffs until the sun moved round to the west when it was time to race the old ladies back to the village for the tea and scones of Beck Hall . |
| 27 | He moved round to the front of the stall , pulling McAllister with him . |
| 28 | It was only when he moved round to the side that he saw the blue , chapped ears and the hair , frozen and brittle , as if you could snap it off . |
| 29 | Laura moved round to the side of the kiln — it was a roughly built cube of fire-bricks the colour of pale sand , with a bricked-up Norman door-arch on one side and a narrow throat at the rear which led to a tall , cast-iron stovepipe wired for support to the studio wall and a bough of a late-flowering cherry tree across the yard . |
| 30 | Satisfied that his aim was correct he moved round to the side of the golf-bag . |