Example sentences of "around at [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved carefully into the chamber , glancing around at the curved walls , and the curtains of rock beyond . |
| 2 | Especially when I look around at the bug-eyed gawkers staring , almost hypnotised , at the images . |
| 3 | ‘ You and Ratagan could take one out tomorrow , stay for a few days and have a look around at the western fiefs . |
| 4 | Casting a despairing glance around at the stark walls of the interview-room in the police station , she took a deep unsteady breath . |
| 5 | She peered around at the various exhibits , squinting into the sun . |
| 6 | Plummer poured himself another drink , pulled his monogrammed housecoat more tightly around him and paced the sitting room slowly , glancing around at the expensive furnishings and ornaments which filled the flat . |
| 7 | Ybreska glanced around at the crumbling ruins of the old , derelict church . |
| 8 | But before the great affair struck up , one looked around at the new faces : Steve Milligan , who used to be our foreign editor at the Sunday Times , Lady Olga Maitland , nicer than her impossible opinions , whom I chiefly remember for being very good about expenses at the Sunday Express ( one wonders if Kelvin Mackenzie might have slipped in late for Chislehurst ) , Nigel Jones , the Lib Dem from Cheltenham with the Lenin beard , and a man and woman sitting together , pointed out as Gordon and Brigid Prentice who , if they flourish in Labour politics , will be compared in the Sun two elections from now with the Ceausescus . |
| 9 | People glanced fearfully around at the impassive troops , waiting for the executions to start . |
| 10 | Slowly I looked around at the other boys . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Poor things , ’ I thought , looking around at the other passengers and feeling superior . |
| 13 | I looked around at the other passengers and tried to start a conversation . |
| 14 | Robert had said , with a nervous glance around at the other passengers . |
| 15 | As was usually the way when the magnificent horses were offered for sale , they sold within the hour , leaving Seb to look around at the other animals and sample the pleasures offered to the fair-goers . |
| 16 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 17 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 18 | " Then tell us a bit more about the natives , " said Chuck lightly , sipping his champagne and glancing around at the little groups of Annamese who were tending to draw closer together as the babble of noise from the French around them grew louder . |
| 19 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
| 20 | D'Arcy glanced around at the deserted tables . |