Example sentences of "[v-ing] round at the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Looking round at the elegant dining room , waited on by the unobtrusive Friedrich , Peter Müller wondered what it would be like to live on such a scale , with so much money to make life as smooth as silk . |
2 | I made a mug of decaf and sat looking round at the crumbling plaster ceiling , the curdled paintwork , the tatty carpet and the flophouse furnishings . |
3 | Looking round at the bare orderly room , the chairs pushed in beneath each desk , each typewriter shrouded in its plastic cover , I felt singularly bereft . |
4 | So she got up slowly from the floor , the last few sobs still springing unbidden up her throat , and without looking round at the disordered room once more , she picked up her lamp and went down to her bedroom to change . |
5 | " I 'm sure you do , " said Cowslip , looking round at the mudstained , bedraggled rabbits with an air of being too polite to comment . |
6 | She stood for a moment staring round at the flickering shadows thrown by the lone candle , the fire had died long since and the room was cold and suddenly lonely . |
7 | Staring round at the dark grey clouds scudding across the sky , at the almost violet light on the horizon , Hilary tilted her face and allowed the rain to sluice her tears away . |
8 | Cold , wet , tired shepherds , — trudging round at the dead of night — newborn lambs already suffering from exposure and ewes with wet coats often unable to give borderline lambs that vital warmth which makes all the difference . |
9 | Glancing round at the noisy throng , Ellie observed helpfully , ‘ I expect they find each other 's groups more interesting . ’ |
10 | ‘ I was pleased , and I still am ! ’ she said , beaming round at the wooden gods . |