Example sentences of "round and [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary told Adam to turn round and face her , she would do his chest . |
| 2 | Then you start at half past four I 'll go round and give them a bit of tea , all of them , you see , see if they 've eat , those that 's eat up horses eat up , give them a bit of tea and then the lads start on them and they dress them over till they sa well , well say , we give them till six o'clock wa to do two horses . |
| 3 | And maybe if you feel up to it one evening this week you could go round and give it a dig up . |
| 4 | Explain to him how you feel and chat to his parents , who may rally round and give you the support he refuses to give you . |
| 5 | No well it was n't the scheme he worked on , he would go round and sort your cooker or you know he was that , maintenance , the maintenance side . |
| 6 | The princes of the realms decided that they needed someone to rally round and lead them in the event that war should come again . |
| 7 | and then they can turn round and offer you bed and breakfast |
| 8 | He did n't want a job that 's what he had said he wanted to have time out he did n't want a job he could get a job when he wanted to , he ca n't now turn round and blame it on |
| 9 | But at the end of the day , I mean , he 's sure gon na turn round and do it to us . |
| 10 | But I then put the Whitley into the most desperate dive , everything in the cabin was floating , and before the Foxes could turn round and do anything about , it I was over the Channel , I landed at Manston where I was put under arrest immediately . |
| 11 | But then I thought actually all this adds up to what you want is someone you feel safe with , someone you feel is going to look after the country and its people well , and I thought is Major somebody I feel safe with , and I thought well in some ways because I do n't think he 's going to turn round and do anything nasty to me , but on the other hand erm I wonder — I 'm going back to your question — is he a man of substance ? |
| 12 | In an ideal situation , the ball might approach the dent in such a way that it continued to go round and round it in a circle — rather like the Earth goes round the Sun . |
| 13 | There were also other things such as places where people were away from home — the Plain Clothes could have as many as twenty or thirty places where people were away from home , and he was expected to pay attention and he would have to go round and visit them all . |
| 14 | Many years ago — back in the early '70s , I think — Burt Reynolds called up Warren Beatty and me and formed Marriage Anonymous on the theory that if any of the three of us got tempted to get married we 'd ring up the others and we 'd go round and make them drunk . |
| 15 | And if things are going wrong at home , or with the boyfriend or the baby and a girl is really distraught , the others will rally round and make her coffee , take the baby and feed it , because they understand , and they feel for her . |
| 16 | You could trust him not to take the mickey , or to turn round and bite your head off . |
| 17 | He was meant to come round and tell me his troubles . |
| 18 | She was the first to get to know about that you see and she 'd come round and tell me . |
| 19 | No I 'd like to put receipt in books and it 's , they 'll probably turn round and tell me it 's all so I ca n't , I ca n't offset it against the tax , or V A T or whatever . |
| 20 | I mean , I should just turn round and tell him where to go , but . |
| 21 | Erm t just to er well there was a l a certain lack of time on this thing , I mean , Dennis had to come round and tell us to start our tick-list else we were n't gon na . |
| 22 | ‘ That , ’ Husband said , ‘ is what we would like your Major Maxim to toddle round and tell us . ’ |
| 23 | But there was no malice in their interest and I sometimes had the feeling that they were waiting for me to turn round and hand them a bag of toffees , with instructions to share them out fairly and not throw the papers on the floor . |
| 24 | But as I say as paying the er r I , I 've seen them when I 'm going round the site er I got an option from the firm , I 'd be allowed time off my work , my actual work on the , on the , on the site , to go round and collect their unions dues . |
| 25 | I 'm gon na go round and collect everything up and pack it up . |
| 26 | Whereupon the partying Ninevites , just like Jonah inside the whale , repented ; whereupon God decided after all to spare the city ; whereupon Jonah became incredibly irritated , which was only normal in one who 'd been put to a lot of trouble to bring the message of destruction , only for the Lord , despite a well-known , indeed historic taste for wrecking cities , to turn round and change his mind . |
| 27 | Well I 've got my coat on why do n't you come round and annoy me ! |
| 28 | ‘ Within minutes he had offered to call round and discuss my work , ’ she says . |
| 29 | Okay , have a go at it and we 'll come round and correct what you 're doing as you 're doing it , alright , so you want to pad over the wound to keep infection out and then try to get your bandage on top of that to keep the dressing in place . |
| 30 | In these cases the practitioner often receives a telephone call from the local police asking for information regarding one of his ( or her ) clients , followed by a request to come round and see them . |