Example sentences of "looking around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking around the cobbled farmyard and at the farm buildings , the shelling and mortaring that went on during the attack on Breville had taken its toll . |
| 2 | You can imagine my surprise when looking around the Lancaster hangar at the display boards , I came across a copy of Flt Lt Bulcraig 's DFM citation , with a typed caption stating that our pilot had been killed with all his crew ! |
| 3 | So I was looking around the Beckenham and Bromley area when I found this place called Haddon Hall which was an amazing property . |
| 4 | ‘ THERE were no political reasons behind this , it 's just vandalism , ’ Pavel Edelstein said , looking around the remains of the Pribram Jewish cemetery before turning away to engage a group of old women in conversation . |
| 5 | Even looking around the kitchen in order to make up the shopping lists is a task involving observation , forward thinking and memory . |
| 6 | ‘ Fucking hell , ’ he said , looking around the kitchen . |
| 7 | As she talked she did n't stop looking around the room . |
| 8 | Looking around the table at the other men , Michael pointed at Tommy . |
| 9 | Looking around the house , her love of horses is evident . |
| 10 | ‘ Mother , it 's ten to midnight ! ’ called Sally from the doorway , and Liz , looking around the confusion she had summoned into being , the scattered earth , the scattered people , the murmuring , the singing , the clustering , thought yes , this was a party , yes , this was living rather than not living , this was permitted , this was planned disorder , this was cathartic , this was therapeutic , this was admired misrule . |
| 11 | Looking around the bedroom , she saw that it was almost exactly as it had been in the photograph , although now there was a book open and face downwards on the patchwork quilt . |
| 12 | One day , thought Mr Wolski to himself looking around the Zoo , this place will no longer exist , but long before then I will have left it , oh yes ! |
| 13 | Looking around the room , at the old , worn furniture , I realized that Herbert must be very poor . |
| 14 | She said that there was pasta , a couple of eggs and a little ham , ’ he said , looking around the big , empty kitchen . |
| 15 | Finn added , looking around the office . |
| 16 | ‘ Not right now , ’ I said , looking around the crowd , acknowledging a few waves and some distant mouthings that were probably shouts . |
| 17 | And she was already looking around the room for the gun or the knife that he would surely have about him somewhere . |
| 18 | ‘ But it 's not right , ’ said Lydia Horton , looking around the dreary little back-street surgery in the least attractive part of Oswaldston as if it were part of her grievance . |
| 19 | Looking around the room , she saw that it was , indeed , a workroom . |
| 20 | Lissa asked , looking around the room in disbelief . |
| 21 | For a moment she stood looking around the wide hall , closely carpeted in dark , velvety blue which lent an added drama to the vivid Impressionist paintings , the apricot-coloured Knole settee . |
| 22 | I could hear my mum and the teacher talking , but what about I do not know because i was too busy looking around the classroom , it seemed massive to me . |
| 23 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 24 | ‘ Why Cotswold Lion , I wonder ? ’ she said , looking around the pub , as they waited for lunch to be brought to them . |
| 25 | Looking around the stable he at first failed to see Seb , until he looked upwards . |
| 26 | Looking around the sparsely attended Chamber , I had a feeling that I might catch your eye sooner or later . |
| 27 | We drove to Stuttgart to drop the boss at the airport then spent the rest of the day looking around the ‘ hot pot ’ of the region , as the locals call it . |
| 28 | However a few were experimenting with this newest innovation and looking around the Orkney countryside today well there 's hardly a farm that does n't have a covered silage pit or a grain silo and today the fields are full of barley and oilseed rape and a field of turnips is something of a rare sight these days . |
| 29 | Anita Jackson asked , looking around the large crowded room in confusion . |
| 30 | Jacques Delors had originally intended to spend the afternoon looking around the JET Fusion Project at Culham … but his visit was cut back to just over an hour after an emergency meeting with Prime Minister John Major . |