Example sentences of "[pron] room at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Because the cafés were so noisy and crowded , we had started working on our poems in my room at the Colegio . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I sit in my room at the top of the house with my swabs and solvents , my brushes and pigments . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her jaw and cheekbone were broken , and her room at The Green residential home in Redruth , Cornwall , was splattered with blood . |
| 7 | She also suffered a broken jaw and cheekbone in the attack in her room at the home where she was the eldest resident . |
| 8 | In her room at the Hôtel des Indes in The Hague she contracted pneumonia which turned to pleurisy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The plan — a simple one — was for the Tongue to be stolen immediately after Laura had installed herself in her room at The Randolph . |
| 12 | ‘ They will cheer up her room at the Goldener Adler . ’ |
| 13 | The Home Office wants to prevent any repetition of last week 's incident when two Kurds facing deportation from Heathrow Airport set fire to their room at the nearby Harmondsworth Detention Centre . |
| 14 | Doth not the good father in short time , either by his coughing or spitting or testiness … become troublesome either to his own son or to his nice daughter-in-law , with continuing so long chargeable and so much waited-on , or to the children , with taking up their room at the fire or at the table , or to the servants , while his slow eating doth scant their reversions ? |
| 15 | Back in their room at the auberge , Melissa took the tissue from her pocket and spread it with its contents on the table . |
| 16 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 17 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 18 | Dana went back to his room at the Hospedaje Lisboa , leaving me in tears on my bed , sunk in despair . |
| 19 | Short spent his last Saturday afternoon in London 's Tottenham Court Road buying a Notebook computer on which he will plot Karpov 's downfall from his room at the Hotel Anibal , the venue . |
| 20 | Leonora escorted him up the massive oak staircase to his room at the back , wished him a good night 's sleep and walked slowly back along the landing . |
| 21 | Bobby was lying in bed in his room at the Gebler 's house in the Bronte district of Sydney . |
| 22 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |
| 23 | He would hold his room at the Palings while he went back to London . |
| 24 | He was packing in his room at the Georges V when his telephone rang . |
| 25 | Commander Zadak was in his room at the biggest hotel in Kisangani . |
| 26 | Waking in his room at the week-ends , Sandra was there beside him , her head against his shoulder , the sun-bleached hair half-covering her ears ; the warm curve of her body shuddered a little when he stroked it , his fingers traced round the freckles on her shoulder , islands on an ocean of tanned skin . |
| 27 | When he got back to his room at the Grand Hotel , he spoke urgently to his solicitor with a view to bringing a private prosecution against the Party 's chief agent for assault and battery . |
| 28 | The night was still young and at this point David suggested that , as Carole had pushed off home , they should go back to his room at the Grand and watch television . |
| 29 | She 'd hoped , thought , it would be nice if he had taken her to lunch sometimes , or let her stay to breakfast in his room at the Franz Joseph instead of pushing her out early and sending her back to the Gasthaus . |
| 30 | He scrambles his own identity as a man and magistrate : ‘ Do you suppose I did n't come to search your room at the time ? |