Example sentences of "a [adj] room [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was making an early morning cuppa in a back room when a milk float crashed through the shop 's brick wall and 12ft by 8ft window . |
| 2 | Well it was really good in our old house cos we had , we had a front room and a back room and a kitchen all downstairs . |
| 3 | Then Wickham was invited through to a back room and a telephone . |
| 4 | So he was a prisoner still , and in this alien world , circumscribed by a tiny room and a job in a Zoo , he had no real friends . |
| 5 | It had a strange and thrilling resonance , as if the singer were standing in a large room or a courtyard built of stone in one of the ancient palaces left by the Mogul emperors further to the west . |
| 6 | I knocked on it but it was so dilapidated that I could see right through the door frame and into a large room where a man was sitting in a kitchen chair , dressed in trousers and vest . |
| 7 | You know he 's going into the country so I 'm to go too and I 'll live nearby in a little room or a shed , for I 'm going to put my life in order , I 'm crazed with living in London and in the pubs and getting drunk every day , no wonder I could n't write poetry , for I could n't think . |
| 8 | And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it . |
| 9 | Instead , she clutched tightly to the handle of the suitcase Mrs Hollidaye had lent her and followed the nurse along broad passages to a bright room where a group of children , all with suitcases and well wrapped in outdoor clothing , stood huddled like refugees from a foreign land waiting to be told where to go next . |