Example sentences of "look around at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking around at the suffocating power of the Roman Catholic Church and the less humane churches of Protestantism , he found that he had nowhere else to go ; they had no answers for this situation either . |
| 2 | As he reached the landing he paused , looking around at the five closed doors that faced him . |
| 3 | ‘ Poor things , ’ I thought , looking around at the other passengers and feeling superior . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Especially when I look around at the bug-eyed gawkers staring , almost hypnotised , at the images . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Look around at the whole audience , those at the front , the left , the right , and the back . |
| 10 | She looked around at the bare , cheerless workshop , at the roughly made counter and the cold bare flags of the floor and shivered , what a place to have to work , even in her own reduced circumstances she was so much better placed than Hari Morgan . |
| 11 | Maurice looked around at the shabby and slightly absurd incongruities of the room . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Slowly I looked around at the other boys . |
| 14 | I looked around at the other passengers and tried to start a conversation . |
| 15 | She looked around at the other people in the water , and when she saw Matthew , brown and sinewy , poised on the board for a swift controlled racing dive , she admitted to herself that it was him she was searching for . |
| 16 | Rex looked around at the jaded office . |
| 17 | Simon looked around at the bigger house with an alert eye . |
| 18 | He looked around at the two other tables occupied in the Bar-Annexe . |
| 19 | Billy looked around at the considerable number of pictures on the walls portraying various old sailing ships . |
| 20 | As Donna climbed the stairs slowly she looked around at the dozens of people entering and leaving the building , wondering how the hell she was supposed to find someone she 'd never seen before . |
| 21 | 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 . |