Example sentences of "around at the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plummer poured himself another drink , pulled his monogrammed housecoat more tightly around him and paced the sitting room slowly , glancing around at the expensive furnishings and ornaments which filled the flat . |
| 2 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
| 3 | ‘ Poor things , ’ I thought , looking around at the other passengers and feeling superior . |
| 4 | I looked around at the other passengers and tried to start a conversation . |
| 5 | As was usually the way when the magnificent horses were offered for sale , they sold within the hour , leaving Seb to look around at the other animals and sample the pleasures offered to the fair-goers . |
| 6 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
| 7 | But so I sat in the Barbican up up at the around at the same level as the Royal Festival . |
| 8 | He slowed his delivery to linger emphatically on each syllable of the French expression " mission civilisatrice , " gazing proudly around at the assembled gathering as he did so . |