Example sentences of "room and [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 One of the men now rushed from the room and along a passage to some stairs .
2 When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent .
3 Ignoring Havvie Blaine , Stair , the astonished Mr Sands who could hardly believe what he had been hearing , and all the other spectators , he dragged her across the room and through a side-door by the small stage , into a long corridor .
4 She crossed the room and with a resolute shrug of her shoulders picked up the receiver .
5 From there the head waiter , as if thinking that they were more than friends , escorted them around the bend of the L-shaped room and to a secluded table in a corner .
6 She moved her head as he crossed the room and for a moment he thought she was going to speak to him .
7 He said it was quieter in there , but I could n't see the lay-by from his room and after a bit I went outside .
8 He swung out of the room and after a scared glance in Craig 's direction , Cummings followed him .
9 But even allowing for those one strong young man could have come up the stairs to Wolski 's room and in a few minutes and one journey have stripped that soulless place of all evidence that for almost three decades , since 1946 , Wolski had lived there .
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