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 .
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