Example sentences of "[adj] room at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However diligently the football authorities in Scotland have tried to manage the psychologies and sensibilities of the national team , they have inevitably put the wrong people , in the wrong room at the wrong time . |
| 2 | It was a small back room at the back of the house , little more than a box , but when she pressed down the switch of the low-voltage nursery light she felt again a glow of maternal , proprietorial pride . |
| 3 | There 'd be a singer in the back room at the Amsterdam tonight , and the crack would be excellent . |
| 4 | Late that afternoon we made a perfect three-point landing at the RCAF airstrip in Whitehorse , capital of the Yukon Territory , where I found shelter for the night in a bare but adequate room at the Whitehorse Hotel . |
| 5 | The parlour was a big light room at the back of the house , with French windows leading to a garden . |
| 6 | Mrs Keith , Senior , who had been staying with Jim and Jean during Tina s confinement , then came back in the trap with Bruce to take up her old room at the Mackenzie 's again , and to help Hilda look after the house and wee Billy . |
| 7 | Thinking of the frail figure sitting in the gloomy room at the sanatorium , trusting the great Bonanza . |
| 8 | Haroun had been given a small separate room at the end of the hut , as befitted a VIP . |
| 9 | Speaking after the meeting , the Rev. Colin Noyce told the Alton Herald that since arriving in the parish some 16 months ago , he has realised the need for an extension of pastoral care , together with extra room at the church . |
| 10 | ‘ Shall we adjourn to your office ? ’ he suggested , meaning a poky room at the far end of the mill . |
| 11 | Marcel Duchamp and Jacques Villon had been influenced by the demonstration at the Indépendants , and were included in the Cubist room at the Salon d'Automne . |
| 12 | This done , the Yard 's largest , most successful and only bearded detective retired to a tiny room at the Blagrave Arms . |
| 13 | The tiny room at the back of the shop was fitted with a trestle table and two forms and country people went there for a meal on market days . |
| 14 | DeVore sat at his desk in the tiny room at the heart of the mountain . |
| 15 | The focal point of the exhibition was a giant Hall of Destruction modelled on Giulio Romano 's famous painted room at the Palazzo del Tè in Mantua . |
| 16 | She liked this large , low room at the top of the house . |
| 17 | He carried her to a private room at the hotel , where she could rest until she felt well enough to ride home . |
| 18 | Müller arrived ahead of him by twenty minutes and waited in the private room at the back . |
| 19 | Meetings , held at 7.30pm on the first Monday of the month , now take place in a private room at the New Inn , Winsick , Nr . |
| 20 | James Stavanger used to keep the gold in the strong room at the Upper Thames Street branch of the bank . |
| 21 | The CPR free-pass travel privilege was becoming an annual habit and the following year I took my holidays to New York finding a small but comfortable room at the Hotel Bristol on W. 47th Street , not far from Broadway , Times Square and Radio City . |
| 22 | She knew she was missing something , even if she did not know quite what , but she and her parents had returned to their large room at the base of the Grimsdale 's house . |
| 23 | ( According to the local newspaper , the looms remained in the large room at the North Wing until near the end of the nineteenth century . ) |
| 24 | Either I had been put to bed , I thought , as I woke up next morning , in the wee cold room at the top of the house , or my standard drunk-person 's on-board auto-pilot facility was improving with experience . |
| 25 | He went into a small , cold room at the top of the building . |
| 26 | She could see partly into the little room at the end of the main tunnel . |
| 27 | Later , as his family came into the world , it was to be the dining-room and a new surgery was built at the side of the house , but when Mrs Curdle first knew him , the doctor and his wife dined in the sunny little room at the back of the house , conveniently near to the kitchen . |
| 28 | The little room at the end of the paddock , where scores are received , became for once the centre of attraction . ’ |
| 29 | There was no tea break but Mr John and a woman , who she thought might have been a chaperone , would go into a little room at the end , where she fancied they had a nip or two . |
| 30 | They scrubbed the tiles and put the bucket and cloths away in the little room at the back of the Chapel where the flower pots were kept and the Minister 's clothes . |