Example sentences of "round [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Gleneagles , for example , is now open all the year round rather than just in summer and autumn following a major investment in all-weather sport and leisure facilities .
2 She swung round rather abruptly , and recognised the young man as one of the detective constables who had been haunting the Lodge all day .
3 Kate looked round rather blindly to find her colleagues , and , having located them , wasted little time .
4 The sun was a great cauldron of red , painting the edges of clouds that swung round ponderously in the sky like a child 's mobile .
5 The sarcastic note in his voice had her swinging round furiously to face him again .
6 He looked round appreciatively .
7 He had a limp , walked round importantly with a stick and talked big , blinding her with science .
8 Huy looked round instinctively .
9 It seemed that he had not heard Garland 's little speech but his gaze came round eventually .
10 Free at last , the deranged Goblin starts to spin round crazily , swinging his ball and chain in a dizzy circle of death .
11 The man pulls Andy 's trousers down ; I can see Andy looking round groggily .
12 you 've used a triangular bandage to cover a wound in the scalp , it 's not a chopping block wound right , it 's not the chopper in its wound right , it 's just a minor wound in the scalp , yes , and that came round and tied at the front , tucked at the back , you used these roller bandages to cover a graze or a wound on the end of an elbow or a knee or the hand , foot and then a straight one up the arm okay , so a lot of your bandaging is using these little roller bandages with the lint pad and do n't forget when you get into the exam do it , do n't do it the wrong way round , remember that you look at your bandage and you put the lint onto the wound , not the other way round right , yeah , you put the lint face down onto the wound , okay ?
13 So she goes round right there 's a whole for you , and one for , one for you , one for you and she says , And you wo n't want any more will you ?
14 Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out .
15 Turn the match round right , do it again .
16 See the caption 's not turning round right , .
17 Yeah , he turned it round altogether .
18 I look round uneasily .
19 Nails looked round uneasily .
20 He looked round uneasily as Martin put down the phone and said that he had to go .
21 ‘ Those were his words , ’ said Nancy , looking round uneasily , as if she still expected to see Sikes .
22 He looked round uneasily , and Alfred stepped forward to fill his glass with white wine .
23 She blinked back sudden unexpected tears and twisted round uneasily .
24 which needs to be deducted from the hundred and ten point two seven which gives you a re a possible alloca a possible amount of land to come forward in the structure plan period of seventy seven point six seven , off which to make the figures round properly you need to take another ten , for the retail element if that became I five land which could theoretically give you a figure of sixty seven point six seven .
25 Authority — ‘ that egg of misery and oppression ’ as the doctor has it — is the norm in the long line of historical adventures drawing for material on the extensively recorded history of the navy in the Napoleonic Wars ; but the outstanding writers in the genre look round widely from this stance .
26 The boy gave an amused flick of his head , swung round unhurriedly — yet not too slowly , either — and sauntered away with a laugh , his admirers tittering after him .
27 Erceldoun swallowed and looked round nervously .
28 Susan glanced round nervously .
29 Then she heard the noise , a creaking of wood , it was repeated and Hari looked round nervously .
30 He scrambled to his feet and looked round nervously at Sabrina who was closing in fast on him .
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