Example sentences of "[pers pn] look around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wildly , I looked around the summer-house and saw a metal garden table and some chairs . |
| 2 | Instinctively I looked around the corridor to try and spot the lurking animal activist . |
| 3 | I looked around the coach , and suddenly I thought I understood the reason for the strange smell . |
| 4 | I looked around the Bible Room , and again thought of Lawrence . |
| 5 | I looked around the ship , and after a few minutes , I found some long pieces of wood . |
| 6 | My first real contact with the military was when I went on a familiarisation course to the Parachute Regiment depot at Aldershot when I was fourteen , and spent two days living in the mess , where I looked around the regiment , met serving officers and had some basic interviews with retired Colonels , who were in charge of selecting the future leaders of the toughest regiment in the Army outside of the Special Air Service . |
| 7 | While we waited , I looked around the office . |
| 8 | I looked around the car-park in search of some indication of the whereabouts of the recording studio , and to my relief I found one quickly . |
| 9 | I looked around the room . |
| 10 | I looked around the room , then down at my hand . |
| 11 | If you look at the w if you look around the windows you 'll always get a drip course . |
| 12 | If you look around the towns and cities of Britain , you will find the same story , be it steel plants , those vast chemical plants , the big engineering works , they scarcely exist any more and if they still are there , they 've shrunk to a tiny part of their earlier size . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She looked around the bar . |
| 15 | She looked around the hopper . |
| 16 | She looked around the tent , her pale eyes filled with simple curiosity , and then looked back at Peggy . |
| 17 | She looked around the basement , and seemed to recognise Cardiff . |
| 18 | She looked around the vestibule , suddenly aware that this room where she ate a brioche and drank milky coffee as if at a feast of the gods on those mornings when she managed to get up in time was a mere dingy parlour , the curtains grey with city smuts , the tables pocked and charred by cigarettes . |
| 19 | She looked around the cockpit . |
| 20 | She looked around the cemetery . |
| 21 | Holding the stone in her hand , feeling its texture , she looked around the hilltop . |
| 22 | She looked around the hall . |
| 23 | She looked around the hall distractedly , as if wondering what to do next , then the door to the library opened and Mr Gould peeked out . |
| 24 | She looked around the kitchen , impressed . |
| 25 | She looked around the cell . |
| 26 | A young ‘ chic ’ girl placed herself in his empty place , fixing her eye liner in the fake sun light of the train , sighed as she looked around the carriage and then smiled to herself , there was obviously no competition so she failed to add an extra layer of lip-stick . |
| 27 | And it is true what your father says … when I think of what it was like after the War , and when I look around now — ’ suiting her actions to her words she looked around the café , at the ladies , old and frail , like herself , respectable in black and grey — ‘ these went through it too , ’ she said , ‘ and look at them , at us , coffee and cake on a Sunday morning . |
| 28 | She looked around the café , as Edouard and Jean-Paul talked . |
| 29 | Omi sighed contentedly as she looked around the room which had a fair smattering of elderly ladies , like herself having a Sunday morning treat . |
| 30 | She looked around the room with distaste . |