Example sentences of "around the room " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A bus-load of boring belly dancers , ’ I said , and pranced around the room . |
| 2 | Maggie looked desperately around the room . |
| 3 | Pendant lights , usually hanging on their own flex from a ceiling rose , are the most common form of general tungsten lighting — ideally , there should n't be just one light in the centre of a room , but two or more around the room , including over any table . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The tension mounted as the fly buzzed around the room giving the audience , every now and again , a fleeting glimpse of the girl . |
| 6 | Omi sighed contentedly as she looked around the room which had a fair smattering of elderly ladies , like herself having a Sunday morning treat . |
| 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 | He looked around the room . |
| 10 | Wolfer and Sam , with Rizla , made a comic trio as they marched around the room , pulling fashionable scarves from each other 's necks and having mock rows . |
| 11 | She twirled and swayed around the room in a slow dance , her skirt billowing and her long hair shining beneath the bright lights . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Conservative insiders gathered in Green 's restaurant in Westminster , a few hundred yards from Conservative Central Office , for dinner and an election session on television sets placed strategically around the room . |
| 13 | Amelia had left off quoting from the wit and wisdom of her favourite mass murderers , done a few lines of cocaine , and started to whizz around the room . |
| 14 | In which case moving around the room with one 's eyes open , as if one could not see , would qualify for drama . |
| 15 | Endill glanced around the room . |
| 16 | Since then be had put them on shelves around the room . |
| 17 | She stacked the diapers neatly on the top shelf , checked the gowns and vests , and then closed the cupboard and turned to look approvingly around the room . |
| 18 | Are there displays of children 's work placed around the room and is the attention of governors drawn to them in a meaningful way ? |
| 19 | He walked quickly around the room to show off his sculptures and then said : ‘ Tell me about Mr Damiani . |
| 20 | Robyn looked around the room . |
| 21 | Hyacinth , quieter now , glanced around the room in embarrassment and her mother at once shooed out the smaller children . |
| 22 | The elegant one turned the neatly-coiffed head on her long neck and looked apprehensively around the room , careful to suppress her alarm at the primitive scene into which she had intruded . |
| 23 | Fragments of wicker were scattered all around the room ; a small pile of them marked the drain . |
| 24 | It should also be said , perhaps , that Lord Darlington was never what might be called a natural public speaker , and soon all those small sounds of restlessness that betray that an audience 's attention has been lost grew steadily around the room . |
| 25 | I was about to continue further around the room when I caught sight of Miss Kenton through the open doorway , signalling to me . |
| 26 | M. Dupont resumed his conversation and I continued my way around the room for some moments . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're an observant little possum , ’ said the Dame approvingly , noting my interest in the valuable art treasures scattered around the room . |
| 28 | Kate dances around the room . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Not that his nephew Denis was in any better a mood as he chased his little women around the room . |