Example sentences of "about him at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube .
2 He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself .
3 Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room .
4 All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air .
5 Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies .
6 Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded .
7 He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in .
8 Von Stein had fallen to his knees , and stared dazedly about him at the ruined lab .
9 Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him .
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