Example sentences of "[noun sg] around the room " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yeah , yes , you get , what , lots to happen , everyone goes in and it 's like a ring around the room , you know hmm |
| 2 | There was a quick murmur of appreciation around the room , after the execution of Patrick Pearse and the other leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916 , Michael Collins was the most active and charismatic of the leaders of the Cause . |
| 3 | And — ’ with another unfavourable glance around the room ‘ — perhaps some more light ? ’ |
| 4 | A final glance around the room , the books , the charts , the computer , the filing system … |
| 5 | She wondered whether Barbara Coleman painted as fast , whether that accounted for all the unsold work around the room . |
| 6 | This rapidly progresses into following the child around the room with a spoon . |
| 7 | Casting a disdainful eye around the room , Nicky declared : ‘ The only good thing about America is that you killed JOHN LENNON . ’ |
| 8 | If you have to do the collating yourself , lay each separate page-pile next to each other around the room and go round picking up one page after the other , until you have the whole pamphlet together . |
| 9 | Place sheets of newspaper around the room on the floor . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you Zimberalda me , pal , or I 'll start flinging the china around the room ! ’ |
| 11 | After that a bird — the same one or another — fell through the chimney into the grate and then fluttered and banged in terror around the room . |
| 12 | The wood panelling echoes slightly ; Lord Aldington 's counsel , Charles Gray QC , has a voice like a bumble-bee : a moment 's inattention and his even , well-modulated and comforting tones seem to embark on an erratic , heavy flight around the room . |
| 13 | and a a little stroll around the room or something |
| 14 | Then Jilly cast off her chadour and sang , a plaintive rendering of ‘ The Winter of Seventy-Nine ’ , and suddenly , as happens on these occasions , the knockabout mood changed , people stopped laughing , tears stood in eyes , as Jilly 's harsh , grating flat voice lamented the year and deplored the future , as her white , beaky , angry face gazed fiercely at the audience , as the confined energy of months swelled up in self-pity around the room , orchestrated by Jilly 's incantation : |
| 15 | In another , an Old Master oil painting comes alive as a bald female head appears , floating in space , to blow the smell of hops and barley around the room . |
| 16 | With low levels of lighting around the room in the evening , they make a spectacular display for your favourite dried flower arrangement or special ornament . |
| 17 | Then , if you like , you can do a little pantomime routine where you look behind you for the ghost but it follows you around until you finally find it , and then you can do a brief activity with the ghost , like walk around the room in ‘ follow my leader ’ style or sing a song such as ‘ My kneebone 's connected to my thigh bone ’ . |
| 18 | He shone the torch around the room before entering . |
| 19 | M. Dupont resumed his conversation and I continued my way around the room for some moments . |
| 20 | Plugs or outlets too , are often fitted in a haphazard way around the room , with the result that when a lamp is placed where it seems most needed , it frequently has to trail a dangerous mess of flex or wire with it . |
| 21 | A private party , ’ he gave a swift and completely Eastern European look around the room and , almost imperceptibly , lowered his voice ; ‘ with some Friends . ’ |
| 22 | She cast a last fleeting look around the room . |
| 23 | Even now I 'm struggling to stop myself going for a jaunt around the room though I know this will inevitably lead to me lying on my bed or sitting on the floor in a mesmerised , trancelike way and staring into nothingness as if stoned . |