Example sentences of "[noun sg] around at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert had said , with a nervous glance around at the other passengers . |
| 2 | Casting a despairing glance around at the stark walls of the interview-room in the police station , she took a deep unsteady breath . |
| 3 | The joke around at the time was that it would be filmed with a hand-held camera . |
| 4 | Had n't Naylor Massingham been the only other person around at the time of that incident ? |
| 5 | Now , hitting upon the lucky number that opens the bank 's safe is the equivalent , in our analogy , of hurling scrap metal around at random and happening to assemble a Boeing 747 . |
| 6 | I like to drive because its the freedom it gives you , no standing around at bus stops and even it saves you money , going from place to place |
| 7 | In many cases the actual amount of information given in the recalls was minimal , limited to whether a subject had to wait at the junction and whether there was other traffic around at the time . |
| 8 | ‘ You and Ratagan could take one out tomorrow , stay for a few days and have a look around at the western fiefs . |
| 9 | I broke my guitars — then we had another fight around at his house . |
| 10 | There is a school of designer Buddhism around at the moment whose disciples chant regularly whenever and wherever they need to . |
| 11 | She 'd moved the furniture around at the manor , he 'd noticed , and got rid of Amabel 's chintz chair covers by the look of it . |
| 12 | ‘ He plays at pirates all the time , does wheelies on his bike , throws mud at his friends , kicks his football into the neighbours ' garden and pings his food around at the tea table . ’ |
| 13 | Their seem to be a lot around at the moment . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yeah , with all , with all the running around at the hospital and all that , and now , and now |
| 17 | This was real racing history being made — and , what 's more , being made by an Irish mare ridden by the most popular Irish-born jockey around at the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival , Ireland 's annual pilgrimage to English racing . |
| 18 | In anyone 's book that is failure of some magnitude , but the fact for English cricket was simply that there were very few players of real Test class around at the time ; after all , when Mike Gatting , one of the best of the county captains , got his chance he won only twice in twenty-two Tests . |