Example sentences of "[v-ing] around the room " in BNC.
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| 1 | These allow headphone listening while walking around the room . |
| 2 | Claire stood up and began walking around the room , idly picking up one of the many calculators lying around , her hand trailing over the volumes of books on the shelves . |
| 3 | There was not much of this kind of nonsense as far as I could tell by eavesdropping around the room , but there were cries of anguish when the prices of some of the wines were announced . |
| 4 | As she talked she did n't stop looking around the room . |
| 5 | Looking around the room , at the old , worn furniture , I realized that Herbert must be very poor . |
| 6 | And she was already looking around the room for the gun or the knife that he would surely have about him somewhere . |
| 7 | Looking around the room , she saw that it was , indeed , a workroom . |
| 8 | Lissa asked , looking around the room in disbelief . |
| 9 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 10 | After a while she forced herself to stop wandering around the room and instead got into bed . |
| 11 | He stood up and began prowling around the room , touching objects , focusing his attention on anything but her . |
| 12 | I am prowling around the room flexing my fingers , while the hard men fade away with Rover . |
| 13 | The people bounding around the room appeared to be transforming , taking on the shape and form of the animal masks they were wearing . |
| 14 | He takes me in at a glance and starts peering around the room , checking out the sofa , examining the ceiling . |
| 15 | She subsided into silence for a few minutes , her glance going around the room , her fingers twining restlessly in her lap until his hand reached out and covered hers . |
| 16 | In which case moving around the room with one 's eyes open , as if one could not see , would qualify for drama . |
| 17 | She could not sit down to talk , but kept moving around the room polishing doors and furniture although they already sparkled . |
| 18 | As shown in Map 13 overleaf , there is a massive throne-like wooden chair , with comfortable cushions , which is capable of magically moving around the room on command , to give its occupant a view through any archway he desires . |
| 19 | P.C. Torney claimed that Hickson 's story was fabrication , and said the youth was prancing around the room at the police station , boxing and boasting of his prowess as a boxer … as a result of the boisterous behaviour , he caught his eye on a window-ledge . |
| 20 | And they 're traipsing around the room , getting the bed out , doing this that and the other . |
| 21 | Then , within seconds , it was over and he was sauntering around the room pouring the almost clear liquid into the guests ' glasses like an insouciant Greek waiter . |
| 22 | With me coming from the North of England , everybody is pretty reserved up there at the best of times , so coming down to London and meeting Angie with an American accent and flitting around the room and speaking in a loud voice all the time , it was amazing . |
| 23 | The Doctor had stood up and was pacing around the room . |
| 24 | The women sitting around the room had begun to stir once they had seen the money . |
| 25 | When I came home there was the rabbit , hopping around the room — it was an amazing sight , ’ she says . |
| 26 | Animals appeared to be bounding and bellowing around the room . |
| 27 | That 's how I got most of this ’ ( gesturing around the room ) . |