Example sentences of "around at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved carefully into the chamber , glancing around at the curved walls , and the curtains of rock beyond . |
| 2 | Especially when I look around at the bug-eyed gawkers staring , almost hypnotised , at the images . |
| 3 | ‘ You and Ratagan could take one out tomorrow , stay for a few days and have a look around at the western fiefs . |
| 4 | Rex looked around at the jaded office . |
| 5 | Maurice looked around at the shabby and slightly absurd incongruities of the room . |
| 6 | Casting a despairing glance around at the stark walls of the interview-room in the police station , she took a deep unsteady breath . |
| 7 | Simon looked around at the bigger house with an alert eye . |
| 8 | She peered around at the various exhibits , squinting into the sun . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Plummer poured himself another drink , pulled his monogrammed housecoat more tightly around him and paced the sitting room slowly , glancing around at the expensive furnishings and ornaments which filled the flat . |
| 12 | Ybreska glanced around at the crumbling ruins of the old , derelict church . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As he reached the landing he paused , looking around at the five closed doors that faced him . |
| 15 | People glanced fearfully around at the impassive troops , waiting for the executions to start . |
| 16 | He looked around at the two other tables occupied in the Bar-Annexe . |
| 17 | As City hit three regal goals through Mike Sheron ( 2 ) and David White , Barlow buzzed around at the other end . |
| 18 | ‘ Poor things , ’ I thought , looking around at the other passengers and feeling superior . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Slowly I looked around at the other boys . |
| 21 | I looked around at the other passengers and tried to start a conversation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Robert had said , with a nervous glance around at the other passengers . |
| 24 | She looked around at the other people in the water , and when she saw Matthew , brown and sinewy , poised on the board for a swift controlled racing dive , she admitted to herself that it was him she was searching for . |
| 25 | Billy looked around at the considerable number of pictures on the walls portraying various old sailing ships . |
| 26 | Rushing around at the last minute trying to obtain foreign currency and travellers cheques is not the best preparation for a business trip abroad . |
| 27 | but I said well at least you 've got it all done , you do n't have to rush around at the last minute . |
| 28 | Isabel glanced warily around at the silent forest , seeing nothing but dripping trees , ablaze with the autumn colours that even the dismal weather could not dim . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |