Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] room [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craig moved about the room lightly , he was surprisingly deft for a big man and as Hari watched him cut the bread into silly thin slices , she smiled . |
| 2 | He ranged about the room uneasily and leaned to her ear again : ‘ Waste of time ! |
| 3 | If he wandered into a room where an ill person lay , and touched them , saying : |
| 4 | Marc had finished his rearrangement of the videos and moved across the room just as she herself moved forward . |
| 5 | Walk into a room where there 's a group of people , and ask , which want tea , and which want coffee . |
| 6 | Sidle into a room apologetically , look a hopeless failure and people may assume that you are . |
| 7 | It was probably some arrangement of S– and R — 's , but whenever I came into a room where they were , they trickled out ! |
| 8 | Seru 's brother came into the room again . |
| 9 | Paul Lane came into the room just as he had finished telephoning Laetitia . |
| 10 | He came into the room once , said , " Put away your books , " and read us The Lemnian , Buchan 's story about Thermopylae . |
| 11 | I confess that when I came into the room more than twenty years — slipped away . ’ |
| 12 | He gestured round the room expansively : ‘ I 'm cashing in too , in my little way . |
| 13 | In the meantime , it is essential that the collection is sited in a room where adequate supervision can be exercised . |
| 14 | He was looking round the room again , and this time revealed his purpose . |
| 15 | ‘ I get it a bit muddled , ’ said Calatin , looking round the room vaguely . |
| 16 | Her eyes moved over the room too . |
| 17 | Next day , at the mum-and-toddler group , your gentle , chatty child turns into a little monster : she spitefully destroys another child 's sandcastle , throws a tantrum when she ca n't have the toy she wants , or screams in terror if you so much as walk across the room away from her . |
| 18 | The solicitor 's gaze moved around the room once more as Price warmed to his task . |
| 19 | For a while she raged , inarticulate in her grief , rushing about the room uncontrollably , smashing and breaking , the pent-up anger pouring out of her in grunting , shrieking torrents . |
| 20 | He was asked to wait and then shown into a room where a detective sergeant prepared to take a statement from him . |
| 21 | Two sets of footsteps , one heavy and unsteady , and the light ones aye behind them , mounted the stairs and paused long at Eachuinn Odhar 's door , before turning into the room opposite . |
| 22 | Half the wall of the next house had been blown out , and he could see into the room beyond . |
| 23 | Boys pouring into the room below , laughing , chattering , me seeing them through the crack . |
| 24 | A small amount of reverberation will occur in the room where the recordings are played-back , but this will usually be so slight as to be unnoticeable . |
| 25 | Then we 'll hurry to the room where the King is , and kill Detchard and Bersonin before they have time to kill the King . ’ |
| 26 | Mary was shown to a room where there was a warm fire and food on the table . |
| 27 | I would n't be able to walk across the room otherwise . |
| 28 | You could n't hardly see across the room sometimes . |
| 29 | She passed within a few feet of an arrow slit from which a light showed , but she was too far away to see into the room where the verderers were . |
| 30 | Flying past Endill he hurtled through a door , crashing into the room beyond . |