Example sentences of "[noun] around the room " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yeah , yes , you get , what , lots to happen , everyone goes in and it 's like a ring around the room , you know hmm |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A commission to paint Comic Strip comedian Rik Mayall ended rather abruptly when Mayall asked for fuel of an alcoholic nature during his afternoon sitting and , on learning that the artist voted Conservative , began doing Hitler goose steps around the room . |
| 4 | concertina cut-outs of animals around the room . |
| 5 | There was a quick murmur of appreciation around the room , after the execution of Patrick Pearse and the other leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916 , Michael Collins was the most active and charismatic of the leaders of the Cause . |
| 6 | And — ’ with another unfavourable glance around the room ‘ — perhaps some more light ? ’ |
| 7 | A final glance around the room , the books , the charts , the computer , the filing system … |
| 8 | Since then be had put them on shelves around the room . |
| 9 | Ashley located the matches , which were kept out of harm 's way in the medicine cabinet , lit the wicks and placed the candles at intervals around the room . |
| 10 | She wondered whether Barbara Coleman painted as fast , whether that accounted for all the unsold work around the room . |
| 11 | This rapidly progresses into following the child around the room with a spoon . |
| 12 | The tentacles went momentarily as stiff as rods , hurling their various cargoes around the room , before bunching up protectively in front of the abused Eye . |
| 13 | Casting a disdainful eye around the room , Nicky declared : ‘ The only good thing about America is that you killed JOHN LENNON . ’ |
| 14 | Plants around the room eased the harshness of the simple colours and lines . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Place sheets of newspaper around the room on the floor . |
| 17 | Liveried bearers carried trays of kebabs around the room . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't you Zimberalda me , pal , or I 'll start flinging the china around the room ! ’ |
| 19 | It was clean , there were carpets on the floor , a tapestry on the far end wall with spring green boughs around the room to give a pleasant odour . |
| 20 | Before the children arrive , hide various items around the room and , if it 's a nice day , around the garden . |
| 21 | The adventurers can find many items around the room ( the exact position of each item is n't important ) . |
| 22 | June lit their camping lamp which cast weird shadows around the room . |
| 23 | The firelight danced on the old oak walls and threw strange shadows around the room . |
| 24 | After that a bird — the same one or another — fell through the chimney into the grate and then fluttered and banged in terror around the room . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The history of the airport is recorded on a number of plaques around the room which houses a spectacular example of stained glass window art . |
| 27 | and a a little stroll around the room or something |
| 28 | Then Jilly cast off her chadour and sang , a plaintive rendering of ‘ The Winter of Seventy-Nine ’ , and suddenly , as happens on these occasions , the knockabout mood changed , people stopped laughing , tears stood in eyes , as Jilly 's harsh , grating flat voice lamented the year and deplored the future , as her white , beaky , angry face gazed fiercely at the audience , as the confined energy of months swelled up in self-pity around the room , orchestrated by Jilly 's incantation : |
| 29 | In another , an Old Master oil painting comes alive as a bald female head appears , floating in space , to blow the smell of hops and barley around the room . |
| 30 | With low levels of lighting around the room in the evening , they make a spectacular display for your favourite dried flower arrangement or special ornament . |