Example sentences of "he look round [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 After high school in Greece , to which the family returned when Mendoros was in his teens , he looked round for the best place to pursue his obsession — which is what brought him to Perth .
2 He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap .
3 He looked round for the instrument and saw it on top of one of the presses .
4 He looked round at the class .
5 Silently he looked round at the tumbledown hut amid the zooming bees .
6 I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor .
7 He looked round at the other rabbits , who were all staring either at Bigwig or at himself .
8 Then he looked round at the roses climbing the old red walls , the pink and white flowers on the fruit trees , and the birds and the butterflies everywhere .
9 He looked round at the other diners .
10 He tried very hard not to cough like he 'd seen people cough in westerns when they tried whisky for the first time , and got away with just clearing his throat rather loudly ( he looked round at the curtains , afraid somebody might have heard ) .
11 He looked round at the rest of them .
12 As he pulled himself out , he looked round among the sopping rabbits in the alders .
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