Example sentences of "[verb] around at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was toddling around at the time getting into mischief the way any normal , healthy three-year-old boy does . |
| 2 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | He sat back on his bed , looking around at the confines of the cell . |
| 5 | Through the open door he could see the computer personnel ; some with hands still over their ears , others looking around at the walls and ceiling . |
| 6 | I had one end , the seamers swapped around at the other . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | There are some cracking discount deals around at the moment as lenders attempt to drum up new business , but watch out as the headline interest rate does n't always tell the whole story . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | The story going around at the time was that he had ticked off the Lebanese bureau staff to the point where they sold him to Hezbollah for a bit of peace and quiet ! |
| 11 | Have you been of work for a while then with the dreaded flu ? ? . i hope your little one did not catch it it is a particularly strong virus that is going around at the moment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Look around at the landscape . |
| 14 | Look around at the furniture , the colour of the walls , what you are wearing . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | When you first look around at the staff of a public relations consultancy , you might think " what a motley crew this lot is " . |
| 17 | She glanced around at the audience who were appearing in twos and threes . |
| 18 | She glanced around at the house , she would lose her home ; entailed as it was it would pass to the next male heir of the family . |
| 19 | After the broadcast finished Mary and I thanked Joelle for coming on the programme and being a target for all the anti-French feeling flying around at the time . |
| 20 | Names that are flying around at the moment are the US General Accounting Office , the Stanford Research Institute or one of the US National Laboratories such as the Los Alamos Lab . |
| 21 | Did you both mess around at the end ? ’ 'Well , it 's really very complicated . |
| 22 | A dreamy , psychedelic feel permeates throughout , which pulls this off-the-wall concept together and makes it stand out as one of the most sensuous British house tracks around at the moment . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I most certainly take exception to one or two hints around at the moment that our biggest problem is keeping our cool . |
| 25 | She gazed around at the paintings which hung on the walls , looking but not really seeing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She remembered one of the ideas chucked around at the brainstorming session a week ago : a series on Eligible Males . |
| 30 | Glancing around at the rest , she could see that none of the small hovels was secured against intruders . |