Example sentences of "through [art] hall " in BNC.

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1 In the course of five days , during which the super-rich flooded through the hall , the Europeans learned just what American collectors want .
2 His consultations were conducted fortissimo and his guffaws echoed through the hall which was his waiting room , lined with an interested audience , and out into the street : ‘ BEEN TO ITALY ?
3 Hearing the wheels of the car on the gravel the two young golden retriever bitches , Honey and the pick of the litter , Harriet , bounded through the hall to get a better view of the intruder from the dining-room window .
4 She had also heard a car come up the drive , and was heading through the hall to the porch .
5 The smell of wax polish hit her as she walked through the hall .
6 He strode through the hall , followed by the good rector who admired the clerical grey suit which clothed those broad shoulders and neat waist .
7 Benstede swept through the hall and tactfully presented himself before this array of the most powerful magnates in Scotland .
8 Alison led me through the hall into the kitchen , a sprawling space with a flagstone floor dominated by a huge table , a Welsh dresser and rows of large cupboards .
9 As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was .
10 He took hold of her by the shoulders and began to shake her with all his strength , forcing her back through the hall towards the staircase .
11 Kelly made her way through the hall towards the front door .
12 It was as he escorted her through the hall that he quietly suggested a drink after work .
13 THE PIPES BLEW OUT and an enormous haggis was paraded through the hall as Neil MacCormick , Home Affairs spokesman of the Scottish National Party , rose to his feet to toast ‘ the Immortal Memory of Rabbie Burns ’ .
14 I often sleep in my coat , ’ he backed away from her , all the way towards the door ; then on the landing , and for no reason that he could give to himself , he turned and ran not towards his bedroom but across the landing , over the gallery , down the stairs , through the hall to the front door .
15 They passed through the hall again ; then he followed her across the lawn to where a rough wooden table was placed near the trunk of a large oak tree , to which was nailed an equally rough seat .
16 She went through the hall .
17 He went through the hall with the dog at his heels .
18 Carrie followed him out of the kitchen , through the hall , and up the polished stairs .
19 A stocky , even heavy woman , with straight blonde hair that was parted in the middle and otherwise unregulated , she padded about with firm , deliberate steps , not looking much at anyone , not smiling easily as Caroline did , only nodding indifferently when Alice caught a glimpse of her through a door or coming efficiently through the hall .
20 Come on now , we 're going to be late , the others are all in there , I could hear the revelry as I came through the hall . "
21 As you pass through the hall you notice that Mr Azul is just where you left him .
22 As they walked together through the hall , she was about to speak to him ( such a gift , some£thing must be said … ) , but before she could do so , he said , his voice hard , displeased :
23 He padded through the hall , up the four flights of stairs to the little landing where you either went straight ahead and out onto the battlements , or ducked through the wee door into the observatory .
24 Donna scrambled through the hall to the sitting-room , the automatic smoking in her hands .
25 The first of the scientific staff to arrive would probably be Clifford Bradley , the Higher Scientific Officer in the Biology Department , scurrying through the hall as if he had no right to be there , with his anxious hunted eyes and that stupid , drooping moustache , so preoccupied that he hardly noticed their greeting .
26 They went through the hall and into the drawing-room .
27 We both heard someone coming through the hall .
28 Once through the hall door , massive under its fanlight and fitted with a brass lock as big as a bible , and down the steps on to the gravel , Nicandra changed back into whatever sort of purposeful animal all the long-sustained acts of kindness and thoughts for the happiness of others had left in her .
29 She went through the hall to the ante-room below the great upward-plunging staircase .
30 ‘ Georgina , ’ the Dean shouted as he passed through the hall .
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