Example sentences of "around at the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Casting a despairing glance around at the stark walls of the interview-room in the police station , she took a deep unsteady breath .
2 Simon looked around at the bigger house with an alert eye .
3 Looking around at the suffocating power of the Roman Catholic Church and the less humane churches of Protestantism , he found that he had nowhere else to go ; they had no answers for this situation either .
4 Ybreska glanced around at the crumbling ruins of the old , derelict church .
5 She looked around at the other people in the water , and when she saw Matthew , brown and sinewy , poised on the board for a swift controlled racing dive , she admitted to herself that it was him she was searching for .
6 Billy looked around at the considerable number of pictures on the walls portraying various old sailing ships .
7 As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about .
8 " Then tell us a bit more about the natives , " said Chuck lightly , sipping his champagne and glancing around at the little groups of Annamese who were tending to draw closer together as the babble of noise from the French around them grew louder .
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