Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] round the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He liked to show parties of visitors round the house and to talk to them of Oswald , or Hild , or Cosin , or Lightfoot . |
| 2 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 3 | Following the assumption of presidential powers by the High Committee of State ( HCS ) on Jan. 14 , successive Fridays saw heightened tension and outbreaks of violence round the principal mosques controlled by the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) in Algiers and other towns . |
| 4 | There was a low murmur of consternation round the bus and , encouraged by it , he went on , ‘ Yes , it just takes one little ting loik dat and it snarls up the traffic for da whole day ! ’ |
| 5 | The arrival of the railway spared off a second burst of development and the population rose rapidly , especially north of the Brook with the growth of the de Moulham Estate and New Swanage in the direction of Ulwell round the turn of the century . |
| 6 | The law may need a bit of help round the edges but that is absolutely essential . |
| 7 | See , when we get the pre-fab , we get this little titchy bit of space round the edge , so I was thinking of us having a garden . ’ |
| 8 | She said it made a real change to have a bit of humour round the place . |
| 9 | I do the odd bit of d-i-y round the home , which I do n't find too difficult , being an engineer by trade . |
| 10 | There 's loads of stuff round the benches and he makes quite a pile after a while . |
| 11 | My club Chairman ( who is a builder by trade ) came round one Saturday morning towards the end of March and built the pond walls and put an extra course of bricks round the header pools to raise their height . |
| 12 | The shot missed and the rabbit trailed a thread of smoke round the hill . |
| 13 | Thirty years ago , rubbing a cut clove of garlic round the salad bowl was considered daring , but now we import 4,572 tonnes of the stuff , mainly from Italy , Spain and France , and as well as its wide ranging culinary uses there is increasing interest in its medicinal powers . |
| 14 | Melissa glanced down at the powerful fingers with the powdering of sawdust round the nails and then up into the fierce black eyes , and her heart began to thump . |
| 15 | I stared at the mess of faggots round the hearth of the closed kiln , supernumerary now . |
| 16 | Living in an apartment again , with a proper bathroom , the sounds of street life , good food and a glimmer of daylight round the shutters , felt wonderful . |
| 17 | Nor the neighbours , nor the postman and the milkman , nor the shopkeepers in the run of shops round the corner . |
| 18 | As the coats separate to take a flight of stairs each , there 's a screech of tyres round the corner and a big old-style Granada lurches to a halt behind them . |
| 19 | Daak could make deep incisions in places round the edge , but he did n't have enough leverage to cut off slices of the strange metal . |
| 20 | A group of runners from Alistair Shaw 's running club , Giffnock North , took part in a wheelchair push of three disabled people from a home in Glasgow round the 13.1 mile course . |
| 21 | Everything else is a bonus , but it 's also a bit like hunting round the first circuit safely in the Grand National — you know it 's the next circuit that matters . ’ |
| 22 | Westward extension was rapid until the formation of the main group of laterals round the House Hills ( 2–4 on Fig. 8.22 ) . |
| 23 | Do they understand that for years to come , our treasure is to be poured into maintaining round-the-clock , full-alert , protection of the airstrip works , at a time when we are seriously discussing the future of student loans , and putting the millstone of debt round the necks of our students in higher education ? |
| 24 | A steamer leaves Oban on certain days for Staffa and Iona : it goes by the Sound of Mull round the north of that island , and returns by the south . |
| 25 | Only last summer , years after it was all over and Astrid had found her stone cottage with roses round the door , golden/grey in a late summer orchard , she met Jay , and her eyes were green as the flames on ashwood . |
| 26 | Never mind , ’ said Breeze valiantly , ‘ perhaps if we 're awfully careful and cheese-paring for the next forty years or so , we may end our days in some sweet little cottage with roses round the door … ’ |
| 27 | The country cottage with roses round the door . |
| 28 | ‘ A country cottage with roses round the door ? ’ he suggested half humorously , but Robbie nodded gravely . |
| 29 | ‘ A little cottage with roses round the door , a tabby cat on the wall , and a babe in arms ? ’ |
| 30 | But Nutty knew that Biddy 's groundwork with them night after night round the railway yard had paid off : Hoomey could ride , although he did n't realise it . |