Example sentences of "around the [adj] room " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an ironing-board , two kitchen chairs and a couple of broken wooden boxes snaked around the front room . |
| 2 | His small dark eyes darted around the smoke-filled room , looking for a friendly face , but they were all closed and impassive . |
| 3 | I relaxed and looked around the dark room , at the end of which was a small stage with a drum-kit and mike-stand on it . |
| 4 | Crystal wall-lights add sparkle to tiny mirrored bows fixed to the panes with diamanté studs , and heavy midnight-blue French silk drapes around the windowless room provide the final touch of luxury . |
| 5 | She looked around the crowded room for her best friend , Margaret Forrester , and smiled as she saw her sitting on her husband 's lap . |
| 6 | You were n't supposed to stick anything on the walls , but Jamila had pinned up poems by Christina Rossetti , Plath , Shelley and other vegetarians , which she copied out of library books and read when she stretched her legs by taking a few steps around the tiny room . |
| 7 | A strange setting for the Tunstall heiress , all this — ’ And he swept his hand around the shabby room , noting the protective arm which Dr Neil had placed around Sally-Anne 's shoulders . |
| 8 | Travers looked around the squalid room . |
| 9 | Standing up , she looked around the familiar room . |
| 10 | Essential oils can be sprayed around the sick room to prevent the spread of infection during epidemics . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , it 's been around the common room for some time now . ’ |
| 12 | That 's what 's been going around the common room and that 's what all this adds up to . ’ |
| 13 | If the little sods want to experiment , that 's fair enough ; we scatter a widely varied selection of ephemeral matter around the common room for them to browse over or deface — the Daily Express , Lancet , Exchange & Mart , Viz … that sort of thing . |
| 14 | She hung on to the towelling and the scissors , and then looked around the dismal room to find a clean surface on which she could put them . |
| 15 | Canon Wheeler allowed his eye to wander around the handsome room lit by the full , secure English sunlight and gazed for a moment through the window at the spire of Medewich 's beautiful Cathedral . |
| 16 | He looked around the miserable room in which they were standing : a low , dark , cramped place with a grudging little window through which thin light crept apologetically . |
| 17 | And it took our model 's breath away when she tried on the ring … its facets sparkling like a waterfall around the dimly-lit room . |