Example sentences of "look around [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 2 | Next , he looks around for credit terms paying a one-fifth deposit of £20 , and the rest in 24 monthly instalments . |
| 3 | John looks around for Paul . |
| 4 | She sticks the cigarette in her mouth and looks around for matches . |
| 5 | He looks around for Mark . |
| 6 | And as he goes under the hooves Andy looks around for John , eyes wide , but John can not help him . |
| 7 | Whether the quartet actively looked around for a site is not known but in 1905 they formed a syndicate by joining with two other men — J. A. Rawlins and F. E. Theodor — who were already buying and selling land for development in the Shiplake and Harpsden areas and whose earlier purchases included Bolney Court , Lower Bolney Farm and Upper Bolney Farm . |
| 8 | The next task is to cut the hide to a more manageable size , and I assumed that the straps would be cut out at this stage , so looked around for someone sitting down with a steel rule and a knife . |
| 9 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 10 | At independence , the new governments had looked around for ways of publicizing their activities and seized upon the means to do so . |
| 11 | As the mandroids calmly gassed the beaked exter and carted them both off to be flung into the street , I slid on to one of the unstained seats at the table and cheerfully looked around for a servaton . |
| 12 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 13 | I went , and then I went well he ca n't have looked around for us too well because we were walking by the side of the road . |
| 14 | On the way back with the dirty cup and the milkless liquid Hilary Seymour-Strachey once more looked around at his own exhibition with the expression of frank self-approval Greg had noticed before . |
| 15 | ‘ It must have cost an awful lot , all this , ’ she murmured , looking around across the large expanse of land , the huge , dominating barn . |
| 16 | George pushed a door open and stood back , and she walked into the room and stood in the center of it looking around with curiosity . |
| 17 | She sipped it through a straw looking around with interest . |
| 18 | Jenna grinned at her and got into the car , looking around with pleasure as Marguerite reversed from the garage and turned to the track . |
| 19 | The boys were looking around with interest . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | We watched a new entrant to the profession looking around at her colleagues for clues as to how to resolve the tensions , whilst doing as little damage to her integrity ( and her career prospects ) as possible . |
| 23 | So instead of automatically going to the timber yard and buying new timber , how about looking around at potential sources of second-hand timber and giving the poor old environment a helping hand ? |
| 24 | Looking around at all the there are a whole lot of people who have left the same even border all the way round instead of having an even border top and sides and leaving a bigger border at the bottom . |
| 25 | ‘ Poor things , ’ I thought , looking around at the other passengers and feeling superior . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Just looking around at acres of tired , naked flesh made Jezrael squirm ; she stayed in her room as much as possible . |
| 28 | As he reached the landing he paused , looking around at the five closed doors that faced him . |
| 29 | He sat back on his bed , looking around at the confines of the cell . |
| 30 | 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 . |