Example sentences of "came round [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she had been told when she came round after the anaesthetic was that there had been a few complications and the operation had taken rather longer than had been expected . |
| 2 | So up until then , being very cautious and a canny Scot , I hung the instrument wrapped in a piece of rag outside the window of my bed space on a nail , just in case somebody came round whilst we were either at school or the workshops . |
| 3 | My ward is Braintree East and the only person who came round or dropped any literature in was Mr Elwyn Bishop for the Labour Party . |
| 4 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |
| 5 | Somewhere in the ward a bell rang , once : ten minutes to go before the nurses came round and chucked out all the visitors . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , ’ she said , ‘ a friend came round and asked me to go with her … |
| 7 | The sergeant was chasing you round and if they came round and saw you coming out of a shop , you had to have a good explanation . |
| 8 | there was this witch doctor and Scooby Doo was — he was standing by the witch doctor and the witch doctor went in and he went — he went chasing him Scooby Doo went in the cupboard with Shaggy and got some clothes on and they were acting on and then the witch doctor pressed the button and they turned on again then and then Scooby was acting and then they just take him and he keeped on switching it until they all came round and the all clothes fell off him . |
| 9 | Apart from the GPR records , The Dog appeared on the much acclaimed ART EP with Kirk DeGiorgio and — ultimate accolade ! — released one on Detroit legend Carl Craig 's Planet E Label ( ‘ He just came round and had a chilli with us and we sorted it out ’ ) . |
| 10 | A large dollop of thick porridge was placed before her , and a nun came round and poured a minute amount of milk over it . |
| 11 | One came round and sold me sheets and then he offered me a loan . |
| 12 | you 've used a triangular bandage to cover a wound in the scalp , it 's not a chopping block wound right , it 's not the chopper in its wound right , it 's just a minor wound in the scalp , yes , and that came round and tied at the front , tucked at the back , you used these roller bandages to cover a graze or a wound on the end of an elbow or a knee or the hand , foot and then a straight one up the arm okay , so a lot of your bandaging is using these little roller bandages with the lint pad and do n't forget when you get into the exam do it , do n't do it the wrong way round , remember that you look at your bandage and you put the lint onto the wound , not the other way round right , yeah , you put the lint face down onto the wound , okay ? |
| 13 | Well this was a Manpower Board that came round and they was inspecting erm what people were doing in the particular factory at and if they thought you 'd be more useful somewhere else then they 'd direct you to another factory . |
| 14 | But my friends really got me out afterwards , they came round and took me out . |
| 15 | My manager came round and she just said erm , Have you done word processing ? |
| 16 | They got a new one , they had another , then they had another idea then , they came round and had erm , had , turned round and said , right they done away with part of the wire and they got another big wheel so you can go right over the top next time , they done away with the big hook , so you could shackle your , your chain on to the wire , then you could go right over the top and then they get the old short chains like that . |
| 17 | The waitress came round and blackmailed us into buying another cup of coffee . |
| 18 | So much so , that I missed my stop when it finally came round and I ended up stranded in a place called Parliament Hill Fields , where you ca n't get a bus or a tube anywhere except back to the BBC . |
| 19 | His brother , who worked in computers , came round and taught him how to use his equipment . |
| 20 | His ginger beard came round and his teeth gleamed for a second . |
| 21 | This was a very old set and did not always work ; as I did not make contact with the control tower I came round and I saw that it was all clear for me to land , so I put my wheels down and made my approach . |
| 22 | No we , we heard that this development was coming up so we came round and looked and liked it and took the plunge . |
| 23 | He was just annoyed because he came round and thought you were there . ’ |
| 24 | They say : The morning she died , a neighbour came round and cried her eyes out . |
| 25 | Yes , a nurse came round and she said hello Herby , she said oh you look quite bright , and I said did he play you up she said well he was very torn and I thought yeah I 'm sure he was . |
| 26 | A bloke came round and gave it all me . |
| 27 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 28 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 29 | And also mention that er this bloke came round and issued a offered er int , er intimidation and threats ! |
| 30 | No , I I mean I was on the phone and th , there was a knock at the door and this woman came round and said she was from from the |