Example sentences of "round for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked round for approbation at this feat of memory but there was none . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And she said oh Vicky goes in the afternoons too , d' you fancy coming round for lunch after you drop Oliver off on Wednesday . |
| 6 | Looks round for escape from this man who is obviously a few co-ordinates short of a bearing , and starts to back away slowly . |
| 7 | She jumped to her feet , looking wildly round for escape , but he stood directly between her and the door . |
| 8 | She looked round for support . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | She can come round for quarter an hour if she wants . |
| 11 | He looked round for inspiration . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I dare n't look round for fear I should see |
| 15 | ‘ Does that mean — ? ’ he grinned round for approval . |
| 16 | When I came round for coffee . |
| 17 | I mean would you have the C O's wife round for coffee ? |
| 18 | I mean would you have a sergeant 's wife round for coffee here ? |
| 19 | At gate at top ( turn round for view of Castle Howard ) turn left on road past Coneysthorpe hamlet ( d ) and back to start . |
| 20 | Once she was gone Bernard and Ellen were able to ask Jed and Prune round for Christmas dinner . |
| 21 | Anne , what a lovely story , although it was n't very lovely , was it , when Aunty May came round for Christmas , and inflicted herself upon the whole family , with her own particular brand of misery ? |
| 22 | She came round for dinner one evening . |
| 23 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 24 | Pat 's son invited us round for dinner , I never thought so say you know ! |
| 25 | We had somebody round for dinner on Thursday and bought us a box of After Eight Mints and I think they lasted five minutes |
| 26 | Come round for dinner . |
| 27 | He loved the sound of her and was always on at me to have her round for tea . |
| 28 | Meg , who thought things ought to be done properly , invited Alan 's parents round for tea , just before Christmas . |
| 29 | Sir Kenneth invited him round for tea and by the time he had left Andrews had been given the huge task of designing a fulllength ballet involving set changes and 300 costumes . |
| 30 | Ask your mother-in-law round for supper ? |