Example sentences of "room [conj] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to the long table in the centre of the room and looked down at the detailed map spread out across its surface . |
| 2 | At nine o'clock he left his room and went down to the bar . |
| 3 | She strode back to the editor 's room and slumped down in a chair . |
| 4 | With an elaborate sigh he unravelled his legs and stood up , crossing the room and squatting down by a pine dresser . |
| 5 | They went back to the drawing room and settled down into the sofa to talk horses . |
| 6 | Someone else came into the room and sat down on a plain wooden chair to watch him struggle . |
| 7 | Lorimer sauntered across the room and sat down on a chair by the butler 's fire . |
| 8 | We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies . |
| 9 | She escaped to her own room and sat down on the bed , huddling in her damp raincoat and picking at the stitches of the band on her arm . |
| 10 | She followed him into the other room and sat down on the sofa to pour out while Penry put a match to the kindling in the stove . |
| 11 | . Daryl was utterly taken about , what in the wide world did Sally mean , she watched the girl go out of the room and sat down on the form completely bewildered . |
| 12 | He tossed the empty packet onto the overflowing bin in the corner of the room and sat down at the table . |
| 13 | Taking a deep breath , he walked slowly across the room and sat down in the easy chair directly facing his mother . |