Example sentences of "[prep] [art] servants ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just then a bell rang for the servants ' dinner . |
| 2 | The rich , however , also expanded the market for more modest goods than silks , Chippendale furniture and ornate carriages , for they also purchased uniforms for their servants and furniture for the servants ' hall , as well as the utensils for their great kitchens . |
| 3 | The famous ‘ spider woman ’ of Erddig duly appears on the cover of The Servants ' Hall , but most of the accounts are of the menservants . |
| 4 | Not the way it is today , when on the rare occasion an employee accompanies a guest here , he is likely to be some newcomer who has little to say about anything other than Association Football , and who prefers to pass the evening not by the fire of the servants ' hall , but drinking at the Ploughman 's Arms — or indeed , as seems increasingly likely nowadays , at the Star Inn . |
| 5 | I can recall many hours of enjoyable discussion on this topic around the fire of the servants ' hall at the end of a day . |
| 6 | Choosing the former , I climbed up to his small attic room at the top of the servants ' wing early one morning and knocked gently . |
| 7 | overlap with auction house chatter in that aristos are always selling the contents of the servants ' hall if they 've fallen on super-taxed times , or buying things if their grandfathers went offshore . |
| 8 | This one and the next , Chalk Farm , were tiled in white and buff , reminding her of the servants ' bathrooms at Temple Stephen . |
| 9 | Moments later a shower of stones was hurled at the attic-room windows of the servants ' quarters . |
| 10 | Would she be taken out into the slaughter yard behind the servants ' quarters and have her throat cut ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Suddenly they heard loud cries coming from the servants ' rooms , at the side of the house . |
| 14 | He had had little to say to her since then , having turned his attention to the red-headed horsewoman she had today identified , from the servants ' gossip at the back of the church , as Mrs Covington-Pym She wondered what he could have to say to her now , not expecting it to be pleasant . |
| 15 | Ruth was in the servants ' hall one day when he returned from yet another picnic . |
| 16 | The lower servants , if male , are to congregate in the servants ' hall ; if female , in the women 's workroom . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And all of us had to assemble in the servants ' hall for lunch . |
| 19 | Young Reggie Sangston went round making sure all the lights were off , except the ones in the servants ' rooms and in the sitting-room where we were . |
| 20 | It was , as Theda had not been surprised to find , up in the attics in the servants ' quarters . |
| 21 | Another story — the charming Silford Hall tells of a happy visit which a little boy once paid to a country mansion , and how the kind housekeeper showed him round the picture gallery , and gave him a lovely dinner in the servants ' hall ; Crabbe had himself been that humble little boy . |
| 22 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 23 | For two or three years in the mid-thirties , Mr Neighbours 's name seemed to dominate conversations in every servants ' hall in the land . |
| 24 | At the back of the hall a flight of stairs led down to the servants ' kitchen . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She stood there until he went quiet , stayed a few minutes longer to be certain and only then returned to her cupboard bedroom next to the servants ' loft . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | I turned and stalked away to the servants ' quarters . |
| 29 | The door to the servants ' quarters in the attics had been nailed up . |
| 30 | In ‘ Crumble Hall ’ Urs'la addresses Roger who is sprawled unconscious across the servants ' table in a speech reminiscent of Gay 's ‘ Tuesday ’ eclogue : |