Example sentences of "i [verb] round " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted me to go round the block and park the car about fifty metres short of the hotel . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're asking me to work round the police department here . ’ |
| 3 | I crept round the side . |
| 4 | She sat like that for what seemed like ages while I tramped round the room , nervous and on edge and blabbering with the excitement . |
| 5 | I mean round Christmas and that |
| 6 | and that 's can I phoning round everybody keeping tabs , what are you planning over the next three months , aha |
| 7 | ‘ I got round them by selling to them the fact that I was doing what they wanted me to do which was to get out into the business world and make contacts . |
| 8 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 9 | And so I had to sort of go round the room and say I 'm Tony and this is , and go all round , and I got round the room . |
| 10 | But I was surprised that I got round the room , cos I 'm awful at remembering names I think I 'm gon na have to try and |
| 11 | Slowly and carefully I swam round the dark walls of the castle . |
| 12 | I swam round the boat , looking for Rachel , but both she and Casey were gone . |
| 13 | So there was I walking round Whitley chewing this liquorice root . |
| 14 | I walking round the supermarket erm yeah last night |
| 15 | and I say round Vauxhalls the only thing we did n't see at Vauxhalls was the er paint shop |
| 16 | That last evening , as unable to settle I wandered round the house , the computer within which insists on running hither and thither matching like with like ( laying its finds before us like a cat presenting a dead mouse ) now threw up the words of a hymn from long ago . |
| 17 | I wandered round the church among the dewy grass-grown graves and picturesque ivy — and moss-hung tombstones . |
| 18 | I wandered round the end of the screen and sweetly asked him if he would like some coffee , and then watched the poor man 's jaw drop and his face go turkey red . |
| 19 | I wandered round the spectacular mall , deserted except for a few armed security guards , paint-smart in peaked hats and short-sleeved shirts . |
| 20 | I wandered round the office and entered the windowless iron lung that they called a review room , heavy with the smell of exotic cheroots . |
| 21 | At intervals I wandered round the camp , flashing my powerful torch into the darkness . |
| 22 | I wandered round the galleries for a while for the dinner was both spoilt and finished . |
| 23 | So I wandered round the corridors of Hampton Court . |
| 24 | Incidentally I was glad that although I did n't feel one hundred percent I was glad that I wandered round Liberties . |
| 25 | I staggered round the pump to look for the others . |
| 26 | My scope increased and I cycled round the villages in search of paragraphs . |
| 27 | I sneaked round the front , thankful for the thick hedge . |
| 28 | I hitchhiked round Europe , lived off the smell of an oily rag , as they say . ’ |
| 29 | I came round the desk then and raised Mrs. Porter by slipping one arm around her shoulders and heaving her into a sitting position . |
| 30 | Well funnily enough I went down there last week , and I must admit I I came round the corner and there was one particular vehicle still does it . |