31.   A crowd of men were standing around swilling beer.

32.   They stood around harrumphing about the current state of politics.

33.   She was sitting by the food tray, and had ordered six of the older and more sensible nomes to stand guard around it to keep children away.

34.   Now they stood around eating fragments of sandwich and watching its eyes.

35.   Groups of nomes were standing around, waiting.

36.   Afterwards, at tea in Westfield Manor, those who had attended the service stood around, too uneasy to sit down.

37.   While he went away to phone Bucharest the three stood around the car, feeling like criminals awaiting sentence.

38.   I ask them to form a circle, as if standing around the hole, and close their eyes.

39.   All of them standing around or squatting, picking at themselves and the dogs sniffing them.

40.   These are some of the extras standing around on Middlemarch.