Example sentences of "[verb] [be] round " in BNC.
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| 1 | We decided to test a model that has been round for some time on the professional market , and is popular amongst tradesman working on side — the Makita 6012HDW Cordless Driver Drill . |
| 2 | He 'd been round there early this morning to get some papers for the solicitor or summat . |
| 3 | he 'd been round last Friday , on Thursday she rang |
| 4 | Well he said they 'd been round with a helicopter , a plane taking photos of the houses , did I want to buy a photo of me house , twenty pound . |
| 5 | Anyway , er they we , they moved out last Friday so this week when he rang me , they 'd been round past the hotel and er there 's walls being knocked down ! |
| 6 | I ca n't buy it I have n't got been round . |
| 7 | And they 'll say well can you fax the wording through , practices have got it or you just drop is round . |
| 8 | You know being round here you might be tempted to do it but that 's why I just keep in me flat and out of the way . |
| 9 | Cos it was due to sail on the same day , on the Sunday , you know what I mean and er it was these locks as I 'm telling you about and her a very , very famous firm and er my correspondence come from London because he had offices was there , you know and erm our erm I 've been at the service as I , if I might say so , but in most people it 's surprising how it get 's round and er the jobs that I 've had to do . |
| 10 | ‘ But you must have known that letter was going to arrive this morning , or you would n't have been round here , trying to snatch it away before I saw it . ’ |
| 11 | Well you must have been round because you 've |
| 12 | Erm , so playgroups I feel need , erm , particularly for certain children , they need to find assisted places of some sort , because say it 's one eighty a session , and they need several sessions a week , if they 're to benefit from it , and one eighty or one seventy or whatever the cost is , which I think is round about that figure , erm , is not something that a family normally would have priority , the , the kind of family who has to have erm , needs , special needs anyway themselves . |
| 13 | Clara was astonished ; she could compare the room to nothing in her experience , nothing at all , unless it were perhaps to those studiously , tediously visited ancient homes which she had been round on various bank holidays during her childhood . |
| 14 | Gina fell into a routine of taking Magnus to the gardens early , before she went to help Margaret at the gallery ; she had to get up anyway because Magnus woke and whined after the milkman had been round , and in the small flat the whimpering seemed to penetrate everywhere . |
| 15 | The gears were tricky and elaborate , but she managed them after one or two mistakes , and by the time she had been round once she felt very proud of herself . |
| 16 | So Harris had been round personally . |
| 17 | You 've been round to all the branches ? |
| 18 | I 've been round long enough to realise something was up . |
| 19 | Yolanda said : ‘ We 've been round to the new house and it is lovely . |
| 20 | Yolanda said : ‘ We 've been round to the new house and it is lovely . |
| 21 | I 've been round there but |
| 22 | Do n't you think you 've been round there too often ? |
| 23 | I 'm taking numbers off of caravans where they 're letting and I 've been round and spoken to people who are in them caravans , and not one is happy ! |
| 24 | Oh no I mean we 've been down there when you put dash like , when you have to wire , er a bolt goes on the dashboard and everything , well Christ I 've been round , we went round er Sunderland works , Nissan , at Sunderland , and we 've been round Rover works |
| 25 | Oh not while we 've been round er |
| 26 | we 've been round yeah |
| 27 | I 've been round once more than you ? |
| 28 | Ca n't buy till you 've been round once ! |
| 29 | Ca n't buy till you 've been round once ? |
| 30 | No you 've been round now you can start buying your own . |