Example sentences of "they [verb] round " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men drank beer from the bottles , and one of them passed round the cigarettes he had bought on the flight , and the blond girl contributed a half-bottle of Stock brandy . |
| 2 | They did n't want one of them hanging round Eileen , who was too young yet to know what a fool she was making of herself . |
| 3 | There must be many thousands of them scattered round Britain . |
| 4 | They had them wound round buttons , tied in buttonholes , pinned to their sleeves ; anywhere they could hang them . |
| 5 | I left right , right , I ran off I jumped out the car because I heard them driving round the corner |
| 6 | The crowds incidentally , were congratulated on their demeanour ; ‘ the ropes were used seldomly to stop them crowding round the players and interfering with play ’ . |
| 7 | My husband took off his underpants and Jessica sat in the car with them wrapped round her the rest of the way home ! |
| 8 | There were hundred of them flying round the end of the during the war . |
| 9 | I 've never seen them walk round the flats , I 've seen the odd one or two with the security guards , |
| 10 | ‘ She used to make them run round getting things for her not my father ; he used to make her get things for him but a lot of them would run up and get her cardigan for her . ’ |
| 11 | She felt them go round her , strong and decided against her dress , beneath her coat , and then he put his mouth on hers and began to kiss her , and for a moment she felt that she was flying , and the next minute she was clawing herself free with the superhuman strength of panic and stumbling for the door . |
| 12 | Finished cloth and yarn were hung out for the approval of the merchants and their servants , the broggers , as they rode round the countryside in search of spun yarn and woven cloth . |
| 13 | Rough guesses suggest they number round 300,000 and all predictions are that their numbers will increase . |
| 14 | That 's why they flock round her . |
| 15 | They shouted round the house and the servants ran to my mother , they were so frightened . |
| 16 | They shouted round the house … ’ |
| 17 | In an exhausting , exhilarating fortnight , they moved round the country triumphing gloriously at Cheshire , being demoralized at Cirencester , where they drew against a vastly inferior team , cockahoop at Kirtlington , and nearly coming unstuck at Windsor , where Perdita was sent off for swearing , so Rutshire had to play the last chukka with only three men , and only just won . |
| 18 | Were they trading round the dock area ? |
| 19 | After they left the café they wandered round the town for a while longer , but Claudia began to feel very weary . |
| 20 | They parked round the corner . ’ |
| 21 | I just stay there , squatting down and the woman gives me a funny look and tugs the little girl 's hand and they walk round me and go off down the road . |
| 22 | All your horses are out , put your men up they walk round the ring and at seven o'clock you move off to the heath to train your horses . |
| 23 | They sailed round the shoreline of the harbour until they came to a small bay with a large waterfall over which cascaded the purest water . |
| 24 | So they drove round the outskirts of the Burleigh grounds , and eventually came to Cannonbury Road . |
| 25 | And the light room the machine case where the machine for revolving the five the lens which er weighed about five tons and there were this machine revolved the lens and it was machine was solid brass erm just which had to be polished e e every week and er oh beautiful brass polished brass and nobody ever saw these things you know except maybe the commissioners when they came round no no visitors there . |
| 26 | I mean the Bradford Dukes always win at Bradford because I 've heard on the grapevine , not from me , that they 've got little bumps round the bends and they fill them in and only the Bradford riders know whereabouts they are , so they skirt round them . |
| 27 | They run round the back and played with the puppets . |
| 28 | taxis and one thing I know is they scoot round Church Lane |
| 29 | They danced round the table , dodging this way and that : ‘ Calm down , Joicey , I was only joking . ’ |
| 30 | The song ‘ Here we go round the mulberry bush ’ reflects this ( though an alternative theory holds that a mulberry tree was often planted in prison exercise yards , and inmates recited the rhyme as they walked round it ) . |