Example sentences of "looked round at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He tried very hard not to cough like he 'd seen people cough in westerns when they tried whisky for the first time , and got away with just clearing his throat rather loudly ( he looked round at the curtains , afraid somebody might have heard ) . |
2 | Mr Brocklehurst , on the other hand , now looked round at the girls , and almost jumped in surprise . |
3 | Zen looked round at the floor of unfinished concrete littered with cement bags , lengths of wire , nails and lumps of wood , a lone glove . |
4 | She looked round at the others , spitting dust from their mouths , coughing , shaking with cold . |
5 | Then he looked round at the roses climbing the old red walls , the pink and white flowers on the fruit trees , and the birds and the butterflies everywhere . |
6 | He looked round at the rest of them . |
7 | I looked round at the faces . |
8 | Flora looked round at the village children swirling , screaming , across the green , like gulls round the ships of their mothers . |
9 | The man kicked the dog into a corner and looked round at the signs of battle . |
10 | The old woman looked round at the child and smiled , suddenly touched . |
11 | It was quite funny when you looked round at the end , you know , and everyone was just getting up |
12 | George looked round at the acre upon acre of emptiness . |
13 | Erceldoun looked round at the servants who were now busy , slowly clearing the cold , congealed messes left by the previous night 's banquet . |
14 | Silently he looked round at the tumbledown hut amid the zooming bees . |
15 | I looked round at the picture of Bruce Lee , the travel poster of Malaysia my dad gave me , my certificate of merit for Grade Two Saxophone , my 320 computer discs , my colour picture of an iguana and the tattered remains of a portable snooker table we got when I was twelve . |
16 | She looked round at the cuttings strewn on the floor and then back at the blank screen . |
17 | Molly looked round at the party . |
18 | He looked round at the class . |
19 | I looked round at the class , my finger hovering above the tape-recorder . |