Example sentences of "around at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stayed , however , and as he looked around at the faces of Frankie and Chopper he worried . |
| 2 | William looked around at the stacks of cartons and bundles and felt that he had been wasting his time tidying the stock . |
| 3 | I had one end , the seamers swapped around at the other . |
| 4 | well not everyone was racing around at the weekend … thousands were sitting out in the sun yesterday at Moreton in Marsh to enjoy a game of sunday cricket … it was Gloucestershire against Northamptonshire |
| 5 | But no time for swanning around at the pub . |
| 6 | Dorcas looked around at the hedge behind them . |
| 7 | Her age and her resilience suggest that she will be around at the top for at least another Olympiad . |
| 8 | The scene of scrabbling around at the top of the stairwell and the subsequent scene of ED 209 's lashing about furiously at the foot of the stairs , unable to regain its footing , were then animated , the latter mostly using back projection and maximum blurs — almost literally hands-on , with the animator waggling the legs with wires during the one- or two-frame takes . |
| 9 | He looked around at the rest of the journalists . |
| 10 | Mother told me that once when she had gone with them to chapel — and she was only a tot-she had just a little peep around at the rest of the congregation . |
| 11 | Glancing around at the rest , she could see that none of the small hovels was secured against intruders . |
| 12 | Grant casts his eyes around at the casualties of a drink-based evening albeit mainly non-alcoholic , and demurs , seeing that mild hysteria has set in . |
| 13 | I was not alone — the Philips team had been kept waiting many hours on several days — though I was beginning to despair of hanging around at the theatre during a five-hour ‘ patching ’ session , being granted only 15 distracted minutes in a break , when we finally resumed our conversation towards midnight . |
| 14 | She swished the dregs around at the bottom of her can . |
| 15 | The level of the wine dropped rapidly , and after the meal Carson scrambled around at the bottom of a cupboard and came up with a bottle of port . |
| 16 | He looked around at the ranks of worried faces and his slightly severe expression softened . |
| 17 | I think that if Jesus stood in your school and looked around at the crowds he would feel exactly the same . |
| 18 | He gestured feebly around at the hillside . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | Look around at the landscape . |
| 21 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 22 | ‘ In April , hundreds of runners can be found digging around at the back of the wardrobe , trying to find that old pair of track spikes . |
| 23 | Fifi had wandered off and was throwing small handfuls of straw around at the back of the cage but the big chimp stood up and grasped the bars , still rocking . |
| 24 | Standing around at the finish , I remembered all of them . |
| 25 | ‘ This is a pleasant room — very charming , ’ he murmured , clearly absorbed by his own inner thoughts as he glanced idly around at the cream carpet and the matching raw silk curtains edging the windows . |
| 26 | Look around at the furniture , the colour of the walls , what you are wearing . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She gazed around at the paintings which hung on the walls , looking but not really seeing . |
| 29 | She tossed her head and looked around at the congregation . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |