Example sentences of "around [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look around me at the massed ranks of Lowestoftians , their vacant faces bearing mute witness to the devastation the town has wrought on their limbic systems . |
| 2 | I know the people around me at the moment and I know they work 100 per cent for me . |
| 3 | There were too many strange things happening around me at the time . ’ |
| 4 | Diane Bailey , the Curtis Cup captain , seized on the Jacklin example and so did Geoff Marks and all around him at the Walker Cup in ‘ 89 , and their teams responded magnificently . |
| 5 | He looked around him at the other producers and researchers . |
| 6 | When they had carried him into his cage that afternoon and taken him out of the carrier box in which he had journeyed for so long , he had hardly dared to look around him at the other cages . |
| 7 | ‘ And then I went to Los Angeles , and I spent Thanksgiving on Malibu Beach , and there was a picture window — he stared around him at the shoebox room and rejected it — ‘ let's not exaggerate , but it would stretch from here to the lift . |
| 8 | Staring around him at the butchery , he says , ‘ What a mess . |
| 9 | Only now he was smiling as he looked around him at the chaos . |
| 10 | He gazed around him at the late afternoon sky . |
| 11 | ‘ Sit down , sit down , ’ said Owen hurriedly , looking around him at the crowded cafe . |
| 12 | McLeish will look after those around him at the back , while McStay will almost certainly be partnered by Celtic team-mate John Collins in midfield . |
| 13 | Her veil now covered her face , but her mortification was evident to all beside her and around her at the altar-rail . |
| 14 | Her hands fell idle in her lap and she stared around her at the bits of leather on the floor , at the row of wooden lasts along her bench , at the boots that needed new soles and heels and , with a sigh of despair , she dropped her knife and rose to her feet . |
| 15 | Then she looked around her at the other smiling faces , and remembered why the policemen were there . |
| 16 | Kate looked around her at the busy incident room . |
| 17 | Alice looked all around her at the flowers and the trees , but she could not see anything to eat . |
| 18 | So what , I mean we 've been t talking around it at the moment . |