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"Between seizures he'll come round and start smiling and, with his lovely big blue eyes, he just lights up the room," said his mum.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

They relented, and by the time she had landed her first stage role in Blackbird at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2005, they had come round to the idea.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

Eccles hopes that if political arguments haven't persuaded some of her colleagues to come round to her point of view, then arithmetic might.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2025

The city authorities have come round to agreeing that the site can be developed for residential purposes, but it calls the current tenants illegal occupiers and says they need to leave before the development starts.

From BBC • May 27, 2024

“But they might be dead I” “They are not dead, I know. In a minute or two they will come round and go off home to dinner.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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