Example sentences of "around the room [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She twirled around the room but Mary was n't interested and returned upstairs with her friends to complete dressing . |
| 2 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 3 | I was about to continue further around the room when I caught sight of Miss Kenton through the open doorway , signalling to me . |
| 4 | Pascoe looked around the room as though he were checking to see whether he 'd left anything behind . |
| 5 | and a a little stroll around the room or something |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A private party , ’ he gave a swift and completely Eastern European look around the room and , almost imperceptibly , lowered his voice ; ‘ with some Friends . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Are there displays of children 's work placed around the room and is the attention of governors drawn to them in a meaningful way ? |
| 10 | His composure would vanish , his grey eyes would shift around the room and , muttering something about antibiotics , he would disappear to the other end of the room , where some hours later he would be discovered at some local worthy 's side , discussing parking problems at Waitrose with the quiet authority of a great physician . |
| 11 | There were no juke-boxes or Coke machines , but there were many shelves of books around the room and a selection of magazines and newspapers ; there were also at least a dozen chess-boards . |
| 12 | Before the children arrive , hide various items around the room and , if it 's a nice day , around the garden . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'd been doing the video for eight hours straight , everything was getting loose and they say , we wan na do a hand-held sequence , just go for it , run around the room and do whatever you want . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had to wear a brace for many years before she was well enough to walk with two sticks , and I still carry in my mind the picture of her trying to walk around the room and on the landing , hobbling in her iron braces . |
| 16 | Lizzy looked around the room and blinked . |
| 17 | He looked around the room and felt the frustration and anger building up inside him . |
| 18 | According to the prosecution at the trial , Branson was hit , thrown around the room and finally dragged downstairs . |
| 19 | While the aide translated these remarks Joseph Sherman took the opportunity to glance around the room and noticed for the first time that groups of diminutive Annamese were standing quietly with their wives among the taller European men and women . |
| 20 | Edward turned round , walked irresolutely around the room and then headed for the door , where he halted . |
| 21 | After a while she forced herself to stop wandering around the room and instead got into bed . |
| 22 | Couville searched around the room and brought a small stool forward . |
| 23 | This time too she walked around the room and studied the paintings . |
| 24 | She looked around the room and frowned . |
| 25 | I gazed quickly around the room and sighed bitterly . |
| 26 | If you are the murderer you 've got to walk around the room and do that to somebody . |