go round the shops

What exactly did you do when you went round the shops?

Do your shopping, then go round the shops there!

I thought we'd go round the shops s'afternoon when we've had something to eat.

Things will be easier next week, we might even have a trip to den Haag and go round the shops.

And I went round the shops.

Rather than go round the shops.

I had promised to go round the shops looking for something suitable, since my mother had shown that she wished to accompany me.

'I know a lady lawyer who can get you off, even if you've been going round the shops buying poison,' he said.

'You mean you want to go round the shops.'

"You're off to Yorkshire tomorrow, and I'm off home to do a week's worth of washing and go round the shops?

However, I would rather know the facts, unpalatable and all as they might be, because then I could quite happily go round the shops and try out lipsticks on the back of my hand, instead of sitting anxiously at the gate watching the greasy long-haired men polishing their rocket-launchers.