Example sentences of "[vb past] around at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 2 | I had one end , the seamers swapped around at the other . |
| 3 | She glanced around at the audience who were appearing in twos and threes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She gazed around at the paintings which hung on the walls , looking but not really seeing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She remembered one of the ideas chucked around at the brainstorming session a week ago : a series on Eligible Males . |
| 9 | He stayed , however , and as he looked around at the faces of Frankie and Chopper he worried . |
| 10 | William looked around at the stacks of cartons and bundles and felt that he had been wasting his time tidying the stock . |
| 11 | Dorcas looked around at the hedge behind them . |
| 12 | He looked around at the ranks of worried faces and his slightly severe expression softened . |
| 13 | I think that if Jesus stood in your school and looked around at the crowds he would feel exactly the same . |
| 14 | He looked around at the rest of the journalists . |
| 15 | She tossed her head and looked around at the congregation . |
| 16 | I looked around at the place ; I had been here before but it had never looked so huge . |
| 17 | She looked around at the fields . |
| 18 | In a daze of fear and dread at the vast sky that hung above him Creggan looked around at the Cages . |
| 19 | Bernice looked around at the city . |
| 20 | Then she looked around at the men on offer , braying nightclub fools mostly , and decided that , even without racing commitments and pain , she would be planning to leave early . |
| 21 | Before leaving I looked around at the disorder wondering what was so important that somebody would go to so much trouble to look for it . |