Example sentences of "[art] [noun] ' quarters " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the south lay the workers ' quarters ; long , low huts that seemed embedded in the earth . |
| 2 | The McKinsey position seems more defensible this time , with the negative growth being confined to the dogs ' quarters . |
| 3 | The officers ' quarters in the guardroom contained a large board labelled with the names of different areas . |
| 4 | Whereas the family sitting-rooms and bedrooms were heavy with drapes and solid mahogany , the servants ' quarters in the attic were small and bare . |
| 5 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
| 6 | It was a rambling house and the Mollands lived in what had once been the servants ' quarters ; the vicar had the rest of the place to himself . |
| 7 | In his post-war writings authorial intention , banished to the servants ' quarters by Richards and the American New Criticism , was restored to a dignity it should never have lost ; and his abandonment of discipleship to Richards now looks with hindsight both belated and inevitable . |
| 8 | In the old days — the good good old days — a member of the family would never even consider entering the servants ' quarters or the kitchens . |
| 9 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 10 | As a beginning , it illustrates the division , acceptable to Kerr , of England into two nations , both in its external appearance , where the servants ' quarters are reduced in size and in ornament , and in the detail of its plan : |
| 11 | He had indicated already he wished her to stay in the house for the night , and she knew well enough that the continued presence of her widowed mother and four brothers in the servants ' quarters in the rear compound depended on her strict obedience to all the wishes of the plantation director in his house . |
| 12 | Would she be taken out into the slaughter yard behind the servants ' quarters and have her throat cut ? |
| 13 | Rather more interesting , however , to Julia than either Ian 's or Canon Wheeler 's vision for the Church was the very puzzling question of why , when he invariably summoned his subordinates to come to him by phone , Wheeler had today put himself to the trouble of walking up a back staircase to the servants ' quarters ? |
| 14 | I turned and stalked away to the servants ' quarters . |
| 15 | The door to the servants ' quarters in the attics had been nailed up . |
| 16 | It was , as Theda had not been surprised to find , up in the attics in the servants ' quarters . |
| 17 | Moments later a shower of stones was hurled at the attic-room windows of the servants ' quarters . |
| 18 | The servants ' quarters ? |
| 19 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 20 | Walden was so small that on one occasion , entering the players ' quarters behind his team-mates on arrival at an away game , he was told , ‘ Go away , sonny , ’ by an official . |
| 21 | She hears the guard who is posted by the slaves ' quarters to her right call , ‘ Halt ’ , but she does n't stop ; she keeps on , and he begins to shout , the torch at his side bobbing and smoking , he does n't come after her ( he must not leave his post ) , but halloos . |
| 22 | Later on that day I was sent into the Corporals ' quarters with a mop and bucket and as I went in a Corporal came out buttoning his flies . |
| 23 | They clambered up the rickety wooden outside staircase to Louis 's workshop in what had been the grooms ' quarters . |
| 24 | When they reached the shearers ' quarters belonging to the last farm on the road they found Matt drinking tea while he awaited their arrival . |
| 25 | Her eyes fell on two empty jam jars standing on a shelf , and then her mind flew to the clumps of snowdrops she 'd noticed blooming near the entrance to the shearers ' quarters . |
| 26 | Their voices and laughter then filled the shearers ' quarters as the two raft parties held a post-mortem on the trip while they ate . |
| 27 | When they reached the shearers ' quarters she became a bundle of activity , doing all she could to assist Matt in setting up the large barbecue , and then searching for dry wood to boil the water for the billy tea . |
| 28 | She heard Silas 's deep tones speaking to Matt , who happened to be standing near the door , and then a derisive laugh came from behind her as Doreen entered the shearers ' quarters . |
| 29 | The sound of it brought Silas into the shearers ' quarters . |
| 30 | Silas began his routine of making sure that the shearers ' quarters were being left in perfect order , and a short time later he spoke to Lucy . |