Example sentences of "round [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children who were at least 6 months old entered the trials at the first dosing round or at a subsequent round and left at the last dosing round , or when they moved out of the study area , died , or were withdrawn from the trial . |
| 2 | She led him round and past the greenhouse . |
| 3 | He sat down and saw a bifurcated path , simmering with gold heat round and under the rising , spreading blue-black-green down-pointing vanes of a great pine , still widening where the frame interrupted its soaring . |
| 4 | ' — but how many times have I stood and laughed as that man on the hobbyhorse , a fool , an outsider to the troupe , prances round and through the dancers ? |
| 5 | In view of the widespread and sometimes ill-founded criticism of the recent franchise round and despite the uniform excellence of the successful tenders , will my right hon. Friend nevertheless consider the possibility of providing a review system so as either to show up ways in which it could be improved in future or to demonstrate that an extremely good job has been done by the Independent Television Commission ? |
| 6 | He wheeled round and at the same time Ho breathed , ‘ Tina — where is she ? |
| 7 | The man whirled round and for a few seconds the landlord saw his face . |
| 8 | We raced round and up the track , blocking the estate car . |
| 9 | He then leans forward , and is guided up and round , so that he pivots to swing his hips round and onto the chair . |
| 10 | As it was soon to be finally and completely demolished , I took the first opportunity of looking round and about the old shed to see if I could find something , anything , of interest relating to the depot to add to my growing collection of ‘ Railwayana ’ . |
| 11 | In a 1975 introduction to his first novel , Jill , Larkin has revealed what his college life in war-time Oxford was like , and how he first met Amis there — an account somewhat amended by Amis in his contribution to Larkin at Sixty ( 1982 ) ; and collections of essays with titles like My Oxford ( 1977 ) and My Cambridge ( 1977 ) have assembled reminiscences of how mind and character were once forged round and about the tender age of twenty . |
| 12 | This version had provision for the hot gases of combustion to be passed round and over a layer of slurry spread upon a drying floor . |
| 13 | A variation that we used to do , but which takes a little practice to get right , is to cut an elastic band , hold one end with your thumb or finger tip just below the implant , reach round the back with the other hand , stretch the elastic and , keeping it stretched , bring the end round and over the section under your thumb , grip it in the same way , pass round again and over the starting point . |
| 14 | The sun grew golden and weak , dew formed on the grass by the benches in front of the Cages , and great clouds of starlings squealed out of empty evening skies and formed and re-formed and grouped yet again round and over the Zoo . |
| 15 | Choose a person , blindfold her , give her the cushion and then turn her round and round a couple of times so she is unaware as to which direction she is in . |
| 16 | Harold and the girl were dancing ahead or , rather , pursuing each other at a ritual pace round and round a flat white sacrificial stone . |
| 17 | What d' ya call something that goes round and round a planet ? |
| 18 | The laying of ghosts by moving ‘ Round and round the circle / Completing the charm ’ is like a rite rescued from ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , presumably in Eliot 's terms sanctified by the Christian connotations also present in the play . |
| 19 | The sun on its endless tour round and round the sky gives shadows and hues of infinite variety . |
| 20 | It was a completely still , warm evening , and the three friends walked round and round the mile-long circuit of Addison 's Walk beneath the avenues of beeches . |
| 21 | He remembered that he had been lost , apparently going round and round the same spiralling loop of bumpy and frozen track . |
| 22 | Children and colts , two of a kind , rushed round and round the field in exhilaration . |
| 23 | There are few cars or jeepneys in Dapitan City — no Philippine traffic jams here — just taxi tricycles ( trishaws ) going round and round the plaza at a leisurely pace , looking for business . |
| 24 | The city seems to stretch on and on — or is she going round and round the ring road in an endless loop ? |
| 25 | And people who liked to walk and talk walked round and round the perimeter track in endless identical circles . |
| 26 | The most vivid memory I have of that Christmas Day is of Shanti , now almost two years old , walking round and round the long dining-room table , pulling a little toy engine given to her by one of the boys , round and round , smiling and smiling . |
| 27 | As one performs ‘ Round and round the garden like a teddy bear ’ or ‘ To market , to market to buy a fat pig ’ for the hundredth time , one may conclude that the period of enjoyment is much longer for children than for adults . |
| 28 | A prolonged clap of thunder echoing round and round the building as though the Tower itself were the target of the storm 's fury imposed silence for a full minute . |
| 29 | Burrow systems can be very complicated and some rabbits may never be cornered since they are able to move round and round the burrow systems — staying ahead of the ferret all the time and without the slightest inclination or pressure to leave the burrow . |
| 30 | Though himself a Lancastrian from Morecambe , he is interested in the whole tradition of the race and believes that walking round and round the same circuit would destroy the whole spirit of the race and is not to be contemplated . |