Example sentences of "[pron] room [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked this afternoon from my room to the School and in the lane I met a cat carrying a hedge sparrow . |
| 2 | " I 'm sorry , " I replied , " I forgot to tell you I 'm boxing against the Eton Mission tonight and am giving tea in my room to the boy I 'm boxing . " |
| 3 | In the morning , I paid my disdainful landlady for the use of my room for the rest of the day . |
| 4 | Then I could walk home in daylight , but at bedtime I still searched my room for the murderer , who wore a black leather built-up surgical boot that swung and lurched down thick-pile carpets towards his victims . |
| 5 | The night before his death I had bought a big bunch of red carnations to put in my room with the lighted candles we were now writing by , to please Dana . |
| 6 | Sylvia rushed into my room on the occasion of her first follow-up session , so anxious was she to get started on her treatment . |
| 7 | I stayed in my room on the eighth floor for most of the day , just waiting . |
| 8 | They ask me how much I paid for everything I was wearing , how much I pay for my room at the pension , how much salary I shall be getting at the university — a salary to me ridiculously small , little more than pocket-money , but for the majority of working-class Spaniards a fortune . |
| 9 | Because the cafés were so noisy and crowded , we had started working on our poems in my room at the Colegio . |
| 10 | By the time I 've paid for my room at the YWCA and bought all the make-up and clothes I need there never seems to be anything left over . |
| 11 | I sit in my room at the top of the house with my swabs and solvents , my brushes and pigments . |
| 12 | They could n't put a cloth over it , you know , like I had that night when the Corporal rushed , parang drawn , into my room at the O. T. X-Ray . |
| 13 | I climb up to my room from the small courtyard by a steep wooden ladder and stoop through the doorway , as I must through all the doorways here . |
| 14 | This meant staying in my room in the Georgetown Inn to watch the proceedings on the three networks during the day , and presenting a programme with extracts and interviews at night . |
| 15 | I 'm lying awake in my room in the flat I share a floor down from William and Yvonne 's . |
| 16 | We left Fritz to watch my room in the palace . |
| 17 | ‘ And it was you who searched my case and came into my room in the night and opened my bag . |
| 18 | On the other hand that would mean she would have to spend the rest of the night in her room with the door locked while he mounted guard outside , forgoing both the pleasure of quelling her hunger pangs and , much more important , a very real opportunity of fulfilling her original quest . |
| 19 | Up in her room with the door locked , she stood quivering and shaking , her emotions oddly dulled , unable to cry . |
| 20 | As it was , she went down so badly with flu that she had to be confined to her room for the duration . |
| 21 | Her jaw and cheekbone were broken , and her room at The Green residential home in Redruth , Cornwall , was splattered with blood . |
| 22 | She also suffered a broken jaw and cheekbone in the attack in her room at the home where she was the eldest resident . |
| 23 | In her room at the Hôtel des Indes in The Hague she contracted pneumonia which turned to pleurisy . |
| 24 | After her small bedroom at home , where beloved old ornaments belonging once to her mother jostled for space with a basket of ironing she had n't yet had time for , and nursing textbooks that would n't fit on her one small bookshelf , or her room at the nurses ' home , where exotic travel posters — gleaned from a travel agent next to her father 's hardware shop — could n't disguise the institutional plainness of the furnishings , this room seemed palatial . |
| 25 | It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage . |
| 26 | The plan — a simple one — was for the Tongue to be stolen immediately after Laura had installed herself in her room at The Randolph . |
| 27 | ‘ They will cheer up her room at the Goldener Adler . ’ |
| 28 | One very warm morning in June 1936 a young woman left her room on the fourth floor of a pensione at the west end of the Riviera di Chiaia and descended to street level . |
| 29 | Desperation to escape also helped her to find her way through the labyrinth of passageways , up to her room on the second floor . |
| 30 | The next day , after Antonia had left , Katherine was told that her punishment was that she would have to stay in her room over the entirety of the weekend . |