Example sentences of "room at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No part of the accommodation had been specifically designed as a sick bay , but at an early stage the directors , on his advice , fitted up the room at the eastern extremity as a ‘ suitable place of confinement ’ . |
| 2 | I use a room at the Grand Hotel twice weekly , on a Tuesday and Thursday evening and do all the teaching myself . |
| 3 | Her initial nerves had all gone now although it still felt strange to be on a catwalk rather than the carpeted floor of the room at the Grand Hotel . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A good place to find primary evidence of this nature is in the Edinburgh Room at the Central Library . |
| 7 | As he stood there , staring across the room at the invisible Bella , his bearing both haughty and disdainful , he looked every inch one of the Lords of the Earth , and Cassie supposed that in his way and in his time , he was . |
| 8 | I say , and laugh , sitting back and looking round the room at the bare paint walls and the constable sitting by the door . |
| 9 | He gazed round the sitting room at the long wall of books , the crackling wood fire , the oil of the Victorian prelate above the mantelshelf as if deliberately impressing each item on his mind , then sank into his chair and stretched out his long legs with a small grunt of satisfaction . |
| 10 | The so-called ‘ Louis XIV ’ room at the Metropolitan was the subject of heated debate … |
| 11 | Drew himself added to the excitement by giving interviews from his luxurious hotel room at the Great Western . |
| 12 | ‘ Shall we adjourn to your office ? ’ he suggested , meaning a poky room at the far end of the mill . |
| 13 | They watched him shoulder his way jovially through the dancers towards the door of the committee room at the far end of the social room . |
| 14 | There was another MP sitting on a chair outside the room at the far end where the passage ran into a blank wall . |
| 15 | To collect the takings , er from the vending machine you have to go through the adjacent community room into a small box room at the far end . |
| 16 | There was n't much to it , just painted ply over a cardboard shell , and its lock went spinning across the room at the second kick . |
| 17 | Thus , Boswell and Johnson found a room at the crowded New Inn , which no longer exists : the corner where it stood , and which it once shared with the city jail , is now occupied comprehensively by a bank . |
| 18 | James Stavanger used to keep the gold in the strong room at the Upper Thames Street branch of the bank . |
| 19 | A black coated , white-haired man , who bore the harassed look of the functionary in charge of the ball 's preparations , stepped from the supper room at the peremptory summons . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Now , aspiring judges are called to a room at the western end of the Palace of Westminster overlooking the Thames , and , seated on chairs stamped with the gilt portcullis , interviewed about their suitability for the job . |
| 22 | The court room at the Old Bailey was hushed dock went in for the jury to return for their verdict . |
| 23 | Gillian and her team reached the conference room at the same time as the clients . |
| 24 | To emphasise fully the drama of this grand space , rather than remove the raised hay-loft occupying the south end of the building , it was decided to retain this area as a dining gallery overlooking the living room , with a private sitting room at the same level lying behind a new partition . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , goody goody , ’ said Malleson coming into the room at the same time . |
| 26 | Halifax was called in privately to Chamberlain 's room at the same time as Winston , and he assumed he would get the PM 's job . |
| 27 | but I mean , him and Joe were in the room at the same time . |
| 28 | Commander Zadak was in his room at the biggest hotel in Kisangani . |
| 29 | A meeting to draw up plans took place in the Chairman 's room at the Conservative Central Office on 7 July 1978 . |
| 30 | 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 . |