Example sentences of "around at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stayed , however , and as he looked around at the faces of Frankie and Chopper he worried . |
| 2 | William looked around at the stacks of cartons and bundles and felt that he had been wasting his time tidying the stock . |
| 3 | Dorcas looked around at the hedge behind them . |
| 4 | The scene of scrabbling around at the top of the stairwell and the subsequent scene of ED 209 's lashing about furiously at the foot of the stairs , unable to regain its footing , were then animated , the latter mostly using back projection and maximum blurs — almost literally hands-on , with the animator waggling the legs with wires during the one- or two-frame takes . |
| 5 | Her age and her resilience suggest that she will be around at the top for at least another Olympiad . |
| 6 | He looked around at the rest of the journalists . |
| 7 | Mother told me that once when she had gone with them to chapel — and she was only a tot-she had just a little peep around at the rest of the congregation . |
| 8 | Grant casts his eyes around at the casualties of a drink-based evening albeit mainly non-alcoholic , and demurs , seeing that mild hysteria has set in . |
| 9 | I was not alone — the Philips team had been kept waiting many hours on several days — though I was beginning to despair of hanging around at the theatre during a five-hour ‘ patching ’ session , being granted only 15 distracted minutes in a break , when we finally resumed our conversation towards midnight . |
| 10 | She swished the dregs around at the bottom of her can . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He looked around at the ranks of worried faces and his slightly severe expression softened . |
| 13 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 14 | ‘ In April , hundreds of runners can be found digging around at the back of the wardrobe , trying to find that old pair of track spikes . |
| 15 | Fifi had wandered off and was throwing small handfuls of straw around at the back of the cage but the big chimp stood up and grasped the bars , still rocking . |
| 16 | He gestured around at the conglomeration of abandoned implements , hardly any of which he could put a name on . |
| 17 | He sat back on his bed , looking around at the confines of the cell . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The night before last we saw a racoon swaying mindlessly around at the side of the road under the influence of headlights . |
| 20 | When you first look around at the staff of a public relations consultancy , you might think " what a motley crew this lot is " . |
| 21 | Since 15 million years is a very short period in terms of evolution , we have to conclude that there were some big whales around at the time of the catastrophe . |
| 22 | Had he been around at the time of my capture I do n't believe I 'd have made it very far . |
| 23 | For those of us old enough to have been around at the time of the birth of rock ‘ n ’ roll , the idea of an advanced course in the music which made both us and our parents jump ( but in opposite directions ) may be hard to accommodate . |
| 24 | Had n't Naylor Massingham been the only other person around at the time of that incident ? |
| 25 | If International had been around at the time of the Vikings , there 's little doubt whose paint would have been used to keep those marauding longships in prime condition . |