Example sentences of "[prep] [art] servants ' quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moments later a shower of stones was hurled at the attic-room windows of the servants ' quarters . |
| 2 | Would she be taken out into the slaughter yard behind the servants ' quarters and have her throat cut ? |
| 3 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
| 4 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 5 | He had indicated already he wished her to stay in the house for the night , and she knew well enough that the continued presence of her widowed mother and four brothers in the servants ' quarters in the rear compound depended on her strict obedience to all the wishes of the plantation director in his house . |
| 6 | It was , as Theda had not been surprised to find , up in the attics in the servants ' quarters . |
| 7 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 8 | In his post-war writings authorial intention , banished to the servants ' quarters by Richards and the American New Criticism , was restored to a dignity it should never have lost ; and his abandonment of discipleship to Richards now looks with hindsight both belated and inevitable . |
| 9 | Rather more interesting , however , to Julia than either Ian 's or Canon Wheeler 's vision for the Church was the very puzzling question of why , when he invariably summoned his subordinates to come to him by phone , Wheeler had today put himself to the trouble of walking up a back staircase to the servants ' quarters ? |
| 10 | I turned and stalked away to the servants ' quarters . |
| 11 | The door to the servants ' quarters in the attics had been nailed up . |