Example sentences of "round the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit there for a bit longer , till I finish my coffee , then I decide to go out and have a look round the station . |
| 2 | We had started off in grand style , rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns . |
| 3 | For a couple of days now Luke had trailed her round the station , sat in her office , watched her through the glass partition of the control-room as she 'd done her interviews : everywhere she had turned , he 'd been there , and she could n't take much more . |
| 4 | They 're all round the window . |
| 5 | They could see Mr Flood fussing round the window of his shop as if he were still worried about what they could have found so amusing in its contents . |
| 6 | If signs start going up we 'll have wrought-iron railings and flowerpots round the trip points next . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're safe now — only another step or two ! ’ they heard Chuck call out , and within a few seconds they were both thankfully flinging their arms round the firm , strongly rooted trunks of the saplings on the ridge . |
| 8 | Yeah , you have n't mentioned going round the brewery there then ? |
| 9 | None was more famous or strange than the notorious Victory Arch ; and in his latest book , THE MONUMENT * , Samir al-Khalil weaves round the arch a fascinating and thoughtful study of totalitarianism and art . |
| 10 | When the draught 's okay the flame gets drawn over the bag-wall at the back of the firebox , then it sweeps round the arch of the kiln-chamber , down through the pots into the throat and out up the chimney . |
| 11 | Another instance of this is seen in later examples of Imperial building where the entablature is continued round the arch or where free-standing columns ( generally in interiors ) possess their own entablature , often surmounted by a sculptured figure . |
| 12 | The air was sweet with incense which wafted round the marble high altar like the spirits of the blessed . |
| 13 | The pilot would then be required to taxi round and round the launcher , gradually increasing speed . |
| 14 | It is believed that the UDA could now change its name in a bid to get round the law . |
| 15 | Many landlords try to get round the law by letting under one of these headings because of the degree of control they can exercise over the duration of the tenancy and over individual tenants . |
| 16 | What has failed to attract attention , however , is the fact that there is a third possible response — avoidance , using legal methods to get round the law . |
| 17 | The loop will now be round the person 's body and all you have to do is to pull it down and ask the volunteer to step out of it . |
| 18 | It often seems to Christians that the Christianity which has wrapped itself round the person of Jesus has served to obscure rather than communicate its raison d'être . |
| 19 | Curiously , the contrasting paved/cobbled texture of the road surface continues into open courtyard areas round the temple . |
| 20 | And I was just squeezin maself into a five and a half when Moira McVitie round the crescent in the cul de sac comes by and shouts out ‘ Hiya there Verena is that you trying on some fuck-me shoes for yer man gettin back . ’ |
| 21 | The mating instinct allied to fear of loneliness was an irresistible combination , concluded the sergeant , gazing round the pub to conceal his irritation . |
| 22 | The good old songs round the pub piano were dying with them . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm going round the pub , ’ said Charles . |
| 24 | So I skulked round the pub , had a burger and a pint and after embarrasing myself by asking two likely candidates if they were Mark , I shot off . |
| 25 | John , husband of the Wear Valley Council chairman , also recalls that the area round the pub was once known as Brickyard . |
| 26 | In May 1961 a girl to whom Archbishop Fisher allowed a flat in Lambeth Tower when she and a husband were desperate for a place to live walked her pram round the courtyard , and observed the two archbishops also circling the courtyard and deep in conversation . |
| 27 | Continuing anti-clockwise round the courtyard , to your left is a charming Baroque fountain , the work of Francesco de Tore and Hieronym Kohl of 1686 , and a well which , like many in Prague , has its original wrought-iron canopy . |
| 28 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |
| 29 | There 's a certain amount of history because the moon is if if the earth is spinning round the moon is going round the water that the moon is attracting will be rushing to catch up a little bit . |
| 30 | He 'd come round the night before after playing pool , and they 'd stayed up late , so today she is shattered . |