Example sentences of "around at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had one end , the seamers swapped around at the other . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | But no time for swanning around at the pub . |
| 4 | Dorcas looked around at the hedge behind them . |
| 5 | Her age and her resilience suggest that she will be around at the top for at least another Olympiad . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He looked around at the rest of the journalists . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Glancing around at the rest , she could see that none of the small hovels was secured against intruders . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She swished the dregs around at the bottom of her can . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He gestured feebly around at the hillside . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Look around at the landscape . |
| 16 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Standing around at the finish , I remembered all of them . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | Look around at the furniture , the colour of the walls , what you are wearing . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She tossed her head and looked around at the congregation . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She remembered one of the ideas chucked around at the brainstorming session a week ago : a series on Eligible Males . |
| 29 | Things also had to be changed around at the rear , with more 10-stud lorry wheel centres , this time welded to Ford rims . |
| 30 | He gestured inarticulately around at the spaceship and the Chelonians . |