Example sentences of "around [pron] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Yet , unfortunately this positive role so often gets lost in the way we have described earlier , with people just not understanding what is going on around them at a time when it could provide them with so much support .
2 There were too many strange things happening around me at the time . ’
3 I know the people around me at the moment and I know they work 100 per cent for me .
4 She had n't been around herself at the time and said Gustav did n't like talking about it much .
5 I can get around him at a pinch , but roll over him , never . ’
6 Only now he was smiling as he looked around him at the chaos .
7 McLeish will look after those around him at the back , while McStay will almost certainly be partnered by Celtic team-mate John Collins in midfield .
8 ‘ 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 .
9 Staring around him at the butchery , he says , ‘ What a mess .
10 Her veil now covered her face , but her mortification was evident to all beside her and around her at the altar-rail .
11 So what , I mean we 've been t talking around it at the moment .
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