Example sentences of "he [verb] around [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 2 | He moved around to the back of the house , and then ducked in to the laneway that ran behind it . |
| 3 | Smiling awkwardly , he cast around for a topic of conversation that was n't personal and had difficulty in finding one . |
| 4 | Blanche 's question woke Dexter from his reverie and he cast around for a photograph of Nicola in the room . |
| 5 | He cast around for a chair , shoved some papers aside with a foot and perched on the edge of an armchair . |
| 6 | Tonight it 's the story of his uncle and as he stands around in the hall , he talks about his Uncle Rocco who was stationed in Ipswich . |
| 7 | He wandered around for a while and ran into a few of the household busy with their duties . |
| 8 | He wandered around for a couple of hours having chats with any of the old fellows who were around the place . ’ |
| 9 | He wandered around in a state of utter dejection , belonging nowhere . |
| 10 | That depressing truth is , alas , one that Mikhail Gorbachev still refuses to accept , as he stumbles around in a trap set by Lenin two-thirds of a century ago . |
| 11 | He flailed around on the snow . |
| 12 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 13 | The hot shine must have cut to black as he was soft-footing it up the stairs , because when he turned around on the half-landing and crouched behind the angle of the banister the only light in the hall was the inward spill from the porch , and that was getting less as the door slowly closed on its hydraulic arm . |
| 14 | Adjusting the holes so that he could see properly , he turned around in the road and drove back towards her . |
| 15 | He trots around like a two-year-old . ’ |
| 16 | He bumbled around for a bit , trying to coil up the string and push the wood into tidy heaps . |
| 17 | He walked around with a portfolio under one arm and a folding campstool under the other , his head held to one side in a manner considered odd . |
| 18 | For the rest of his duty period he walked around in a daze . |
| 19 | He felt around for the bedside table and the box of matches . |
| 20 | He looked around for a cab . |
| 21 | He looked around for an implement to use and although his eyes were by now accustomed to the gloom he could see nothing suitable . |
| 22 | He looked around at the rest of the journalists . |
| 23 | He looked around on the ground , and finally saw me . |
| 24 | I am safe here , he thought : and the thought was so rare , so violent in its unexpectedness , that he looked around like a villain in a melodrama to see if anyone had overheard this God-tempting thought . |
| 25 | Then he fumbled around on the ground for his glasses . |
| 26 | He searched around for a way of explaining it . |
| 27 | His eyes are wide as he gazes around in a kind of apprehension . |
| 28 | He ran around with a gang of schoolfriends and was a member of the local swimming club . |
| 29 | ‘ Sorry I 'm late , ’ she said , and he snapped around from the window in surprise , almost forgetting to smile for a moment . |
| 30 | He roamed around like a visitor who 's been left to his own devices , curious and oddly furtive , opening drawers , reading a letter or two , shuffling through a deck of photographs . |