Example sentences of "look around at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ A case for galoshes , ’ remarked the Substitute , tossing a cigar end out of the jeep and looking around at the steam rising slowly from the wet earth . |
| 3 | ‘ Poor things , ’ I thought , looking around at the other passengers and feeling superior . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As he reached the landing he paused , looking around at the five closed doors that faced him . |
| 6 | He sat back on his bed , looking around at the confines of the cell . |
| 7 | Through the open door he could see the computer personnel ; some with hands still over their ears , others looking around at the walls and ceiling . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ There was a time when we could look around at the Commonwealth , the Empire , other countries and we would see very soft markets for British exports . |
| 11 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 12 | I look around at the milling people , imagining we 'll be split up into smaller groups and led through the blank doors to sit in armchairs and watch a TV set on some kind of plinth . |
| 13 | Especially when I look around at the bug-eyed gawkers staring , almost hypnotised , at the images . |
| 14 | And if you look around at the world and try and find the women in positions of power , you have to say , where are they ? |
| 15 | Look around at the furniture , the colour of the walls , what you are wearing . |
| 16 | Look around at the landscape . |
| 17 | When you first look around at the staff of a public relations consultancy , you might think " what a motley crew this lot is " . |
| 18 | Look around at the whole audience , those at the front , the left , the right , and the back . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw . |
| 21 | He looked around at the rest of the journalists . |
| 22 | Billy looked around at the considerable number of pictures on the walls portraying various old sailing ships . |
| 23 | Then she looked around at the men on offer , braying nightclub fools mostly , and decided that , even without racing commitments and pain , she would be planning to leave early . |
| 24 | He looked around at the ranks of worried faces and his slightly severe expression softened . |
| 25 | I think that if Jesus stood in your school and looked around at the crowds he would feel exactly the same . |
| 26 | But before the great affair struck up , one looked around at the new faces : Steve Milligan , who used to be our foreign editor at the Sunday Times , Lady Olga Maitland , nicer than her impossible opinions , whom I chiefly remember for being very good about expenses at the Sunday Express ( one wonders if Kelvin Mackenzie might have slipped in late for Chislehurst ) , Nigel Jones , the Lib Dem from Cheltenham with the Lenin beard , and a man and woman sitting together , pointed out as Gordon and Brigid Prentice who , if they flourish in Labour politics , will be compared in the Sun two elections from now with the Ceausescus . |
| 27 | She looked around at the bare , cheerless workshop , at the roughly made counter and the cold bare flags of the floor and shivered , what a place to have to work , even in her own reduced circumstances she was so much better placed than Hari Morgan . |
| 28 | He stayed , however , and as he looked around at the faces of Frankie and Chopper he worried . |
| 29 | William looked around at the stacks of cartons and bundles and felt that he had been wasting his time tidying the stock . |
| 30 | Before leaving I looked around at the disorder wondering what was so important that somebody would go to so much trouble to look for it . |