Example sentences of "room just [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be discreetly boost ed by concealed uplights in corners , or by strip lights running round the room just below the ceiling and concealed by a pelmet or valance . |
| 2 | On the following evening Franca , Alison and Irina were together in what Jack laughingly called the women 's quarters , a room just beyond the kitchen which Franca had once designated as her sitting room or ‘ boudoir ’ , but which , before Alison 's arrival , she had not much frequented . |
| 3 | You can buy one of the many reproduction plaster or fibre-glass cornices by the foot and have it added to your room just under the ceiling or , if you can not afford this luxury , go for a stylish compromise with a paper border . |
| 4 | The room just along the corridor from where the Marshal had been waiting was stuffy and fetid with the smell of old unwashed clothing and mothballs . |
| 5 | For this to work though , it was absolutely essential to get them to their spot a minute or two ahead of her , and to achieve that we had arranged for Mrs Thatcher to pause for a cup of coffee with the VIPs in a small room just outside the terminal door . |
| 6 | Lucy spent most of the next couple of hours in the ground-floor utility room just behind the room where she 'd slept , sitting on the tiles against the wall and reading back numbers of magazines while her washing tumbled around in the Zanussi . |
| 7 | Anyway , muggins here went into his dresing room just before the fight and gushed : ‘ Joe , it 's my first big show , and you 've been a professional in every sense of the word . |
| 8 | The girl , who was reading English at Puddephat 's college — one of the first women students there , in fact — had been found dead in her room just before the end of the summer term . |
| 9 | The Blessed Sacrament Chapel is in a small room just inside the Presbytery door and to it come over a hundred people who give an hour of their time a week to ‘ watch ’ but there are countless others who come in just for a minute or two and there find a few minutes of silence and prayer . |