Example sentences of "look around the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | She had looked around the company and seen that she was not out of place at all . |
2 | She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid . |
3 | If one looks around the country , one becomes seriously concerned about the definition of a high level of service in certain local authorities . |
4 | Someone comes to the hotel lobby entrance , looks around the car park and disappears back in . |
5 | He looks around the room . |
6 | He looks around the room . |
7 | ‘ Why Cotswold Lion , I wonder ? ’ she said , looking around the pub , as they waited for lunch to be brought to them . |
8 | Even looking around the kitchen in order to make up the shopping lists is a task involving observation , forward thinking and memory . |
9 | ‘ Fucking hell , ’ he said , looking around the kitchen . |
10 | Looking around the stable he at first failed to see Seb , until he looked upwards . |
11 | As she talked she did n't stop looking around the room . |
12 | Looking around the room , at the old , worn furniture , I realized that Herbert must be very poor . |
13 | And she was already looking around the room for the gun or the knife that he would surely have about him somewhere . |
14 | Looking around the room , she saw that it was , indeed , a workroom . |
15 | Lissa asked , looking around the room in disbelief . |
16 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
17 | I could hear my mum and the teacher talking , but what about I do not know because i was too busy looking around the classroom , it seemed massive to me . |
18 | One day , thought Mr Wolski to himself looking around the Zoo , this place will no longer exist , but long before then I will have left it , oh yes ! |
19 | Looking around the bedroom , she saw that it was almost exactly as it had been in the photograph , although now there was a book open and face downwards on the patchwork quilt . |
20 | Looking around the table at the other men , Michael pointed at Tommy . |
21 | Finn added , looking around the office . |
22 | ‘ Not right now , ’ I said , looking around the crowd , acknowledging a few waves and some distant mouthings that were probably shouts . |
23 | Looking around the house , her love of horses is evident . |
24 | Jacques Delors had originally intended to spend the afternoon looking around the JET Fusion Project at Culham … but his visit was cut back to just over an hour after an emergency meeting with Prime Minister John Major . |
25 | ‘ Mother , it 's ten to midnight ! ’ called Sally from the doorway , and Liz , looking around the confusion she had summoned into being , the scattered earth , the scattered people , the murmuring , the singing , the clustering , thought yes , this was a party , yes , this was living rather than not living , this was permitted , this was planned disorder , this was cathartic , this was therapeutic , this was admired misrule . |
26 | But it , it 's , it , bear with me , if , if you feel that I 'm taking this very slowly , just look around the room , and you 'll see confused faces somewhere else . |
27 | National Government , then the time has got to come at so some stage as to whether you defend a principle of Lincolnshire being a de a longer term debt free authority , or whether you look around the county and say , important services must be protected . |
28 | We have only to look around the Chamber to know that this Parliament is finished ; it is dead . |
29 | The teenager was asked to look around the court and he said he thought he recognised Sutherland as the man . |
30 | You did n't have to be an angry young man to look around the car industry over the past few weeks and despair of ever hearing any good news . |