Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] ' room " in BNC.
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| 31 | Country Villas : Infants under 2 go free if a cot is used as an extra bed in the parents ' room . |
| 32 | But watching the race on TV in the jockeys ' room he still summoned the energy to cheer his erstwhile mount home . |
| 33 | Oliver said that could have been easily accomplished by telling Shildon where they really were and if it were Shildon she had heard going through a desk in the typists ' room he must already have found out . |
| 34 | On the second floor they found a light in the typists ' room and heard the mumble of voices . |
| 35 | That night we stayed in the guards ' room with Mahmoud , but we had the feeling that other hostages were there , too . |
| 36 | In the guards ' room I was shown two videos . |
| 37 | Five minutes after entering his office Zen reappeared in the inspectors ' room , where Geraci was watching Chiodini fill in a coupon for a competition promising the winner a lifetime supply of tomato concentrate . |
| 38 | Young Reggie Sangston went round making sure all the lights were off , except the ones in the servants ' rooms and in the sitting-room where we were . |
| 39 | The same year 1960 , saw the Pedler 's retire to live in the flat over the Ladies ' room , although Bill still involved himself helping his replacement — Derek Craik — who came as Assistant shortly before Bill 's retirement ( replacing Keith Mercer , an earlier assistant brought in on the crest of the membership boom ) . |
| 40 | Outside the scholars ' rooms sat a line of bearded old men busily correcting specimens of Arabic calligraphy . |
| 41 | There was a thin slice of light showing under the door to the boys ' room . |
| 42 | He said at Dumfries Sheriff Court that he and his friend had gone to the upstairs lavatory in the dormitory building about half-an-hour after going to bed when they had been called over to the girls ' room . |
| 43 | He also quoted £45 for building a staircase and balcony on to the ladies ' room . |
| 44 | At one point , Joan rose from the table and went to the ladies ' room . |
| 45 | Although a veteran of a dozen movies , to many outside of Spain Banderas is still that dark-browed guy who sent Madonna scurrying to the ladies ' room in last year 's docu-melodrama In Bed With Madonna . |
| 46 | " Of course , " he said , " of Course , " and he even showed her the corridor that led to the Ladies ' room , and she escaped , and they escaped from each other . |
| 47 | Stella , who for a miserable quarter of an hour had been contemplating going to the ladies ' room and not coming back , was suddenly struck by the curiously fragmented nature of the group about the table . |
| 48 | She made small-talk with Amy and Roger Dyson and greeted about fifty more guests before excusing herself to go to the ladies ' room where she met Elaine powdering her nose . |
| 49 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 50 | Jane Postlethwaite went happily up the steps of the club house and off to the ladies ' room . |
| 51 | As the door to the parents ' room opened , she held her breath . |
| 52 | ‘ Ten minutes , ’ she told him , when he was ready to go into Room C. She went back to the visitors ' room to open the window . |
| 53 | She had laid siege to the typists ' room for some minutes before Marshall had persuaded her downstairs . |
| 54 | I think but continuing down the corridor erm which was all the Education Department , you came to the typists ' room right at the bottom of the corridor on the left |
| 55 | He helped umpire Barry Meyer to repair the damage , but was called to the umpires ' room at the close of play . |