Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] round a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As early as 1970 , before linguistics became a separate department , the small group of linguistic teachers at Lancaster got together round a table , and discussed the idea of having a special research project which would be centred at Lancaster . |
| 2 | A besom is a particular kind of brush made from bundles of tough twigs such as heather stems tied together round a handle of , for instance , hazel . |
| 3 | He arrived at the bridge , walked over it then back again , he looked over the parapet at the shining metals , the line curved away round a curve ; he looked around , everything was quiet , the moon had come out and there was just a touch of frost in the air . |
| 4 | It is still possible to open a door and find a dozen women sitting quietly round a bench sewing small squares of silk , with all the cloistered intensity of medieval seamstresses . |
| 5 | It 's easy to make one very expensive roll of wallpaper stretch all round a room which , if you could ever afford it , would normally take lo or I 2 rolls . |