Example sentences of "round [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Lawrence whether he meant to or not banged the ball in short , er round about leg stump , he sort of half went to glances did n't he ? |
| 2 | I am going round about Whitsun , perhaps May 20th … ’ |
| 3 | Well there is a fair bit John because I do n't seem to have all this round about way at work to be honest with you . |
| 4 | Round about midnight our supper was delivered to us from the cookhouse in a thing called a ‘ haybox ’ . |
| 5 | They had received complaints from neighbours round about midnight about the nightly festivities at the home of the star of Die Hard and TV 's Moonlighting . |
| 6 | Er , if staying , I 'm trying to make arrangements for to stay locally and most likely will be leaving round about Easter , so when it comes to the departure it will be myself . |
| 7 | Er round about Christmas last year , this flat down here , bottom of , they had all their present in there . |
| 8 | For a couple of years on the run they 've lost their dole cheque round about Christmas . |
| 9 | well look at some of the apples you were getting round about Christmas , they had brought them in , they had polished them and put that spray on to make them look shiny |
| 10 | Rou , round about Christmas was it ? |
| 11 | Now normally , fixed returns we do use , you know like guaranteed income bonds , guaranteed er returns , but unfortunately , if you look at the Halifax list , or the er any building society list , their fixed-rate returns are very dodgy and they 're round about sort of er six and a half to seven percent at the most erm if you tie for three to four years , and they go up to about seven and a half , maybe a little bit more if you tie for five years . |
| 12 | Who remembers the public-service training films they used to show on TV , round about news time , with words and music by — The Scaffold ? — introducing us to the prospect of the 2p and the 5p and so on ? |
| 13 | There was no sort of law against erm employing people without a certain amount of rest and erm that was employed , er that was occupied that office from first thing in the morning when the bus went out from five o'clock and erm he would , the depot clerk would go off round about dinner time , there 'd be his relief who came on at nine o'clock and worked with him until dinner time and he 'd carry on till five and then we had , what was called , the cashiers come on duty then , there was a cashier and erm a hand . |
| 14 | ‘ I think he said he was taking a trip down to the Orne bridges round about mid-day , and would like you to accompany him . |
| 15 | Wartime recollections are thus mostly from the ‘ fun ’ side of'war work' ; bicycling round as College Messenger ; working in the Radcliffe laundry on my own after the staff had gone , with no sound but the crickets , and the smell of damp clean sheets and steam ; walking into a lamp-post in the blackout ; no church bells … |
| 16 | Most of us apply more or less the same old lotions , creams and make-up all year round through force of habit . |
| 17 | She looked round for approbation at this feat of memory but there was none . |
| 18 | I mean just read round for fun yo and see if there 's anything that sticks and if you get chance to use it in an exam , do Okay , then it says develop a stock of gems . |
| 19 | ‘ He likes the way they suddenly drop the whole interlocking tangle of folding and faulting and erosion , and stroll round for lunch in the pub they 've adopted . |
| 20 | He likes the way they suddenly drop the whole interlocking tangle of folding and faulting and erosion , and stroll round for lunch in the pub they 've adopted . |
| 21 | And she said oh Vicky goes in the afternoons too , d' you fancy coming round for lunch after you drop Oliver off on Wednesday . |
| 22 | Looks round for escape from this man who is obviously a few co-ordinates short of a bearing , and starts to back away slowly . |
| 23 | She jumped to her feet , looking wildly round for escape , but he stood directly between her and the door . |
| 24 | She looked round for support . |
| 25 | We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears ! |
| 26 | She can come round for quarter an hour if she wants . |
| 27 | He looked round for inspiration . |
| 28 | Looking round for Blackberry , he saw that he had left them and was up at the top of the pool , where the narrow beach tailed away into a gravel spit . |
| 29 | I could dispense with anything else , everything else , including visits to the tax office which I rarely do except to replace my er brochures and and er things that I send round for information . |
| 30 | I dare n't look round for fear I should see |