Example sentences of "round about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grandmother had ‘ a wee shop ’ and the aunt was ‘ a dressmaker , she made dresses and sold them cheap , round about the doors . ’ |
| 2 | Now the Moors began to enter the gardens which were round about the town , and the watchman saw them and struck the bell . |
| 3 | Autumn had given the trees that extra golden lustre and the leaves that had already fallen lay round about the mourners , feet like a russet carpet . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll put a girdle round about the earth |
| 5 | On the wall opposite the fireplace hung a framed black and white print , one of those distributed by Pears Soap , round about the 1900's . |
| 6 | It was one of those long drawn-out Latin bums , the ones that start just above the knees and peter out somewhere round about the coccyx . |
| 7 | or 170 MN/m 2 which is round about the average for laboratory glassware , window panes , beer bottles and most of the other common forms of glass but was something between a fiftieth and a hundredth of what he reckoned it ought to be . |
| 8 | ‘ Round about the same time a Panamanian registered cargo ship by the name of the Ramsland , chartered by the same gang who had organized the Valhalla , put into Boston harbour and was promptly seized by the United States Coast Guard . |
| 9 | A third approach was adopted by a small minority of bishops but an ever-larger circle of theologians , young priests ordained round about the time of the Council and lay activists , all far more aware of the objective inadequacy of the conciliar documents as they stood : inadequate precisely because their composers had been over-anxious not to make any sharp break with pre-conciliar practice . |
| 10 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |
| 11 | Round about the time of the miners ' ballot , hospital workers were holding meetings in South Yorkshire hospitals where only months earlier they had voted for all-out strike action . |
| 12 | If you at the statistics over the last three to four years , you 'll find the number of U K people travelling abroad has always stayed round about the thirty million mark , despite what 's happened to the prices . |
| 13 | Its heyday was round about the 1930s and not all that many pure examples of it are being published today , though there are enough to make it a possible type of book to write if you are strongly inclined this way . |
| 14 | ‘ Andy Gould , ’ I say , because — apart from everything else — Andy stayed with me during the summer , round about the time the card with my writing on it went missing . |
| 15 | My first offence was round about the age of eleven — shoplifting . |
| 16 | It was down round about the forty two , forty five horsepower mark . |
| 17 | Well it was just their own The the found of the thing was just built of big stones round about the size of the bottom of a stack . |
| 18 | And er Oh and if he If the time of the the er tinkers that they came round , if they came round about the time of the the pig killing they would look for the piece of bacon . |
| 19 | In his books on folk life — A Wiltshire Village ( 1912 ) , Villages of the White Horse ( 1913 ) , Round about the Upper Thames ( 1922 ) , Folk-Songs of the Upper Thames ( 1923 ) , and The Banks of Isis , serialized in the North Berkshire Herald in 1925 — he left , as he had hoped to do , ‘ a permanent record of the language and activities of the district in which I find myself ’ . |
| 20 | Round about the age of four . |
| 21 | Go right round about the Loch . |
| 22 | The most common reason for early fits is a shortage of oxygen round about the time of birth , but that does n't apply in your case , as David breathed right away . |
| 23 | Er I , I like bonfire night we 'd , we 'd maybe start collecting bonfire rubbish round about the end of August . |
| 24 | Because there 's inflammation round about the inside of the pin |
| 25 | An aureus of Commodus — that 's round about the end of the second century AD . ’ |
| 26 | My daughter 's idea of a good film is one where she starts crying round about the end of the queue for tickets . |
| 27 | He murmured , ‘ To be imprisoned in the viewless winds , And blown with restless violence round about the pendant world . ’ |
| 28 | We heard what Mr er Davis had to say this morning , and at at one point was very very important , we are expecting to be in possession of reports on the greenbelt local enquiry and your report er round about the same time , and indeed since they they are in control of proceedings thereafter they are in a position to make sure that they do n't have to reach decisions on one until they are in possession of the other . |
| 29 | Round about the Elephant and Castle I decided to call a truce and talk to him . |
| 30 | An old sea captain , veteran of the battle of Trafalgar , and he has a wooden leg and he can be heard stumping about in October , round about the anniversary of the battle . |