Example sentences of "room the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before lunching in the Staff Dining Room the 41 member band lined up on the lawn to provide a short concert for staff . |
| 2 | Everyone in the company knew something was going on , and when no sound came from the dressing room the tremulous voice said again , ‘ Beginners please . ’ |
| 3 | Waste bins overflowed with paper , in the wire room the overnight news from around the world spewed out , in the typewriters sheaves of messages or half-written copy had been stuffed . |
| 4 | When the caretaker eventually ventured into the room the following day , all was as usual . |
| 5 | She had chased it out of the house in February when one of her grandchildren was visiting ; and it is possible that it spent the night in the house during the week of the March sighting , as there was a very strong smell in the dining room the following morning . |
| 6 | Is the room the only dining space or are family meals usually taken elsewhere ? |
| 7 | The room the two men looked into was massive ; was more garden than room . |
| 8 | Is the living room the right shape , facing south and with a pleasant view ? |
| 9 | In the corner of the room the dumb waiter contains a selection of logs of various sizes , most of them still damp . |
| 10 | You 'll find that quite often this sort of selective improvement will give a room the new look it needs for far less money than a drastic change-around . |
| 11 | That same Sunday , in the evening , there was played out in the Cabinet Room the sad farce of waiting for the telegram of conditions for the line of credit front Morgans ' in New York , relayed through the Bank of England , and containing when it came the terms which were wanted by MacDonald and Snowden , but which were anathema to half the Cabinet . |
| 12 | Mrs Freer hissed as she passed her and in the dressing room the other models pointedly turned their backs on her , annoyed that an untrained shop girl should have been allowed to trespass in their territory . |
| 13 | Have you done that , I , I saw a tape in your room the other day , erm lovingly compiled in Berkshire it was like a it was like a tape in a box like |
| 14 | ‘ In that case , what was she doing in your room the other night ? ’ |
| 15 | In the room the other faces stared up at him like a theatre crowd . |
| 16 | She had a room the other side of London — it was years , though , before Nigel discovered that . |
| 17 | In the first half of 1853 he initiated or sanctioned three responses : " He appealed to Great Britain for support , and took out of the lumber room the forgotten agreement of 1844 " ; he sent an emissary to Constantinople for bilateral talks ; and he began to make plans for fighting . |
| 18 | People were wandering in and out of that room the whole time , he might have been seen . ’ |
| 19 | The ideal way , way of arranging a room as I see it would be that you could have your separate rooms but have sliding doors , after all there 's nothing new in sliding doors , er , but doors opening and closing erm are restrictive , that 's only my own personal view , my wife does n't necessarily , necessarily share that view ideally if I was planning a house , the main room the main living room would be much larger than the one we live in , it would certainly be a different shape , erm when we had our golden wedding erm our visitors were so numerous that they were standing shoulder to shoulder in these two rooms and the kitchen whereas if it had been a reasonably designed house maybe we could of spread them around a little more , but they 're minor , minor defects that are not really serious . |
| 20 | He says that when he got into the room the double bed was alight , he picked up the babies and got them out as quickly as he could . |
| 21 | When they arrived back at the Incident Room the little printer was locking up for the night . |
| 22 | She had again refused sedatives from a doctor after endless police questioning in Canon Wheeler 's elegant dining room the previous night . |
| 23 | By nine in the evening I was fully conscious and observed out of the big window at the end of the room the light beginning to drain from a violet sky . |
| 24 | Across the room the old woman stirred and mumbled . |
| 25 | When Carco 's concierge came to clean his room the next day , she almost fainted at the sight of the nude picture hanging over his bed . |
| 26 | Dear old Joe simply could not believe his eyes when he and I entered Miss Havisham 's room the next day . |
| 27 | Seb was in Anna 's room the next evening , talking vainly in an effort to get through to her , when his mother came up the stairs and into the room . |
| 28 | I persuaded them both to come out of the room the same way , as I had no key to the door , and took Heathcliff down into the warm servants ' kitchen with me , while Catherine returned to her guests and the dancing . |