Example sentences of "look about [pers pn] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
2 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
3 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
4 | He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in . |
5 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
6 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
7 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
8 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
9 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |