Example sentences of "[adv] around the room " in BNC.
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1 | Fragments of wicker were scattered all around the room ; a small pile of them marked the drain . |
2 | The ball can not then escape and bounce all around the room . |
3 | There was a generator blowing bubble holos all around the room , snatches of old movies , adverts , random faces , alien landscapes . |
4 | There was a buzz of excitement all around the room , but at the same time everyone had the same nervous look about their face . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Maggie looked desperately around the room . |
7 | I was about to continue further around the room when I caught sight of Miss Kenton through the open doorway , signalling to me . |
8 | Joseph glanced hopefully around the room . |
9 | He walked quickly around the room to show off his sculptures and then said : ‘ Tell me about Mr Damiani . |
10 | " Exactly , Monsieur Joseph , " He glanced quickly around the room again . |
11 | I gazed quickly around the room and sighed bitterly . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | The lieutenant snorted in disgust , and strode off around the room to bully his men . |
14 | She felt quite weak and she was still sitting there , staring disconsolately around the room , when Marguerite knocked and walked in . |
15 | Isobel moved restlessly around the room . |
16 | Emily rose to her feet and moved restlessly around the room . |
17 | He stood up and began moving restlessly around the room , fiddling with books and ornaments and adjusting the glasses and cutlery on the table laid ready for their meal . |
18 | ‘ Hello , ’ Anne replied , glancing across at Robyn who moved restlessly now around the room . |
19 | He gestured wildly around the room . |
20 | Lovingly , she kissed the baby on its forehead with her cold white lips , then stared wildly around the room , fell back — and died . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Edward turned round , walked irresolutely around the room and then headed for the door , where he halted . |
23 | He moved vaguely around the room . |
24 | George had wisely slipped into a pattern of complete obedience and moved silently around the room to establish aiming points with the torch on the pictures Maxim indicated . |
25 | What makes this album such a monstrous listen , though , is the way disgusting guitar noises of all descriptions are packed into jabs , upper-cuts , sucker punches and knock-out blows to batter you dizzily around the room . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | When he eventually awoke , weak , thin and pale , he looked anxiously around the room . |
29 | Charles let a note of panic creep into Bill Holroyd 's voice and looked anxiously around the room . |
30 | She glanced distractedly around the room . |