Example sentences of "[verb] round for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finding himself with nine months to kill between school and university he cast round for a job . |
| 2 | Would you like to come round for a cup of tea ? ’ |
| 3 | How about Ge , asking George to come round for a meal ? |
| 4 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 5 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll never believe he done it , ’ said Mrs Flaherty , when she came round for a cup of tea and a slice of the action , ‘ not if he 's convicted by a dozen juries , and do n't tell me he 'll get a fair trial in the current climate of opinion , not unless they pick twelve men the same size and true . |
| 7 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 8 | I think I 've enough of my own without looking round for a few more . ’ |
| 9 | Clare jumped up wildly , looking round for a way to escape . |
| 10 | Whilst the lawyers were still sorting out his mothers estate he started looking round for a suitable business . |
| 11 | I think that 's , that 's pretty consistent , probably with how bands are formed , actually , is n't it , its friends of friends , and somebody knows somebody else , and somebody 's looking round for a drummer , just happens that somebody mentions it to somebody else . |
| 12 | It was a party of stretcher-bearers , passing round for a final ascertaining that only the dead remained . |
| 13 | ‘ I made excuses , said I thought he 'd be too busy and so on , so she said , ‘ Well , just pop round for a drink then . ’ |
| 14 | We turned round for a look . |
| 15 | And while she 's on the job , she 'd better look round for a well-born filly for Timothy to marry . |
| 16 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 17 | I going round for a collection too . |
| 18 | I 'm going to stay there for a bit while I look round for a place . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Dutch elm disease is a terrible thing , ’ said Mr Molesworth , corning round for a second time . |
| 20 | Certainly the constant parade of young men calling round for a chat and tea , if there was any , or to take the girls out for the evening were friends who happened to be boys . |
| 21 | The crowd pressed round for a better view . |
| 22 | We walked round for a bit then we came back and watched The Bug-Eyed Monster Strikes Back on the television . |
| 23 | ‘ They did n't call round for a chat , for Christ 's sake . |
| 24 | In this case I usually get them running round for a while jumping , hopping , walking backwards and also get them to shout some calls . |
| 25 | ‘ You do n't feel like coming round for a bite of supper tonight , I suppose ? ’ she shouted . |
| 26 | But the children soon settle down and gather round for a closer look at Caesar a 12ft long Burmese python . |
| 27 | I looked round for a living man to admire and follow . |
| 28 | Like many footballers at the twilight of their careers , Rough looked round for a suitable business interest and eventually opened his own shop in Musselburgh . |
| 29 | I looked round for a split second . |
| 30 | Both guards broke clear , looked round for a moment and then leapt up the bank into the wood . |