Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] around [pers pn] at the " in BNC.

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1 Her hands fell idle in her lap and she stared around her at the bits of leather on the floor , at the row of wooden lasts along her bench , at the boots that needed new soles and heels and , with a sigh of despair , she dropped her knife and rose to her feet .
2 Then she looked around her at the other smiling faces , and remembered why the policemen were there .
3 He gazed around him at the late afternoon sky .
4 He looked around him at the other producers and researchers .
5 Only now he was smiling as he looked around him at the chaos .
6 ‘ And then I went to Los Angeles , and I spent Thanksgiving on Malibu Beach , and there was a picture window — he stared around him at the shoebox room and rejected it — ‘ let's not exaggerate , but it would stretch from here to the lift .
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