Example sentences of "around at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 32 | 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 ? |
| 33 | But , as she gazed around at the chintz sofas , and the French-provincial-style velvet-upholstered dining-room chairs — which she could see through a far open doorway — it occurred to Laura that maybe it was the only way to preserve such sumptuous furnishings on a shoreline likely to be damp and salty in the latter part of the year , while , outside the large windows , she could see automatic sprinklers drenching the fine green lawns that ran down to the beach . |
| 34 | She remembered one of the ideas chucked around at the brainstorming session a week ago : a series on Eligible Males . |
| 35 | Things also had to be changed around at the rear , with more 10-stud lorry wheel centres , this time welded to Ford rims . |
| 36 | There 'll always be someone around at the places described here and the grumpiness that seems to infect so many British crags these days has n't spread here yet . |
| 37 | In a daze of fear and dread at the vast sky that hung above him Creggan looked around at the Cages . |
| 38 | He gestured inarticulately around at the spaceship and the Chelonians . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | In all three areas the mammals that happened to be around at the start fanned out in evolution , and produced a specialist for each trade which , in many cases , came to bear a remarkable resemblance to the corresponding specialist in the other two areas . |
| 41 | He sat back on his bed , looking around at the confines of the cell . |
| 42 | She looked around at the fields . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Yeah , with all , with all the running around at the hospital and all that , and now , and now |
| 46 | ‘ He plays at pirates all the time , does wheelies on his bike , throws mud at his friends , kicks his football into the neighbours ' garden and pings his food around at the tea table . ’ |
| 47 | She glanced around at the house , she would lose her home ; entailed as it was it would pass to the next male heir of the family . |
| 48 | I looked around at the place ; I had been here before but it had never looked so huge . |
| 49 | Did you both mess around at the end ? ’ 'Well , it 's really very complicated . |
| 50 | The night before last we saw a racoon swaying mindlessly around at the side of the road under the influence of headlights . |
| 51 | She glanced around at the audience who were appearing in twos and threes . |
| 52 | When you first look around at the staff of a public relations consultancy , you might think " what a motley crew this lot is " . |
| 53 | This was real racing history being made — and , what 's more , being made by an Irish mare ridden by the most popular Irish-born jockey around at the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival , Ireland 's annual pilgrimage to English racing . |
| 54 | Pointing at the three musclemen positioned outside his HQ 's entrance , he added : ‘ We 'd be stupid not to have these guys around at the moment . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ You ca n't really compare Kylie with anyone else around at the moment , and probably never will . |
| 56 | ‘ There are some really good women writers around at the moment ; Shawn Colvin 's excellent , and so 's a woman called Ferron , although she got kind of pigeonholed into ‘ women 's music ’ , and I think that 's limited her audience . |
| 57 | ‘ Being lumped in with the mod thing which is kickin' around at the moment has certainly helped us . |
| 58 | I love the Bardot look and all the wigs and extensions around at the moment are great . |
| 59 | Paul Gascoigne is also troubled by a cold , but he trained yesterday afternoon and , apart from Platt , it is only Batty and Dixon who are real concerns , and Taylor added : ‘ I know I may have to look at bringing another right-back and a midfielder , but I am keeping my fingers crossed about Dixon because there are no other right-backs around at the moment . ’ |
| 60 | You can always grow it back and there are some great wigs around at the moment . |