Example sentences of "in that room " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 2 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 3 | Only by a stupendous act of imagination , only by actually putting myself in his skin in that room at that time can I even begin to attempt any sort of answer which moves by the smallest degree away from the natural responses of disgust and revulsion which all of us instinctively wish to express . |
| 4 | Trying to put myself in his skin in that room at that time must not , of course , be taken to mean that the act contemplated and later committed by Miller is something that I myself could think of doing . |
| 5 | Actually , Jan is a very sweet lady and a good professional and she would happily have stayed in that room — but it would have been wrong . |
| 6 | There were sixteen people in that room , standing , sitting , lying . |
| 7 | Whatever the reason he was in that room it was n't for food . |
| 8 | The beautiful thing in that room was Maud Bailey herself , who went down on one knee very gracefully to plug in a kettle , and produced from a cupboard two blue and white Japanese mugs . |
| 9 | If you walk into a room full of strangers and there is only one person in that room whom you know , you will immediately see and recognise that person , however many people are in the room , because here is something which interests you — your human oasis in a desert of unfamiliar faces . |
| 10 | ‘ Every eye in that room will be on the royal couple and they would all love to ask questions but they 're far too polite and obviously far too diplomatic . ’ |
| 11 | I know every gun in that room . |
| 12 | As Joe walked away he felt that he had said goodbye to the last phase of his youth , and that his storm of weeping had swept him into manhood and away from all connection with the woman back in that room . |
| 13 | Well , I sat in that room and saw this fantastic-looking man come through the door and I just did n't believe it . |
| 14 | Mind , neither Noodle nor Blueboobs would have been sittin' in that room amongst troopies and other enemies , jus ' twiddlin' their thumbs , in the first place … |
| 15 | In fact the picture is complete only in the sense that it contains the details which are relevant to his activity in that room , it certainly does not contain all the detail which is available to the senses . |
| 16 | ‘ We could go in that room , could n't we ? ’ |
| 17 | Imagine wanting to live in that room , that awful room , with walls like dung-heaps , what has happened in there , what has been done in that room ? |
| 18 | Imagine wanting to live in that room , that awful room , with walls like dung-heaps , what has happened in there , what has been done in that room ? |
| 19 | Is it likely that there are other pupils who may turn up in that room in a few minutes ? |
| 20 | She let herself in , went up the stairs , set the shutters ; she had meant to leave all behind but was seized then with the oppressive memory of Andrée in that room . |
| 21 | Some of the stories people had told me in that room would make your hair stand on end . |
| 22 | Do n't forget somebody got dead in that room . |
| 23 | So if a guest invites a friend back to the room , and the friend is injured in that room , the guest and not the hotel has occupational control and may be liable to the friend . |
| 24 | And it was fifty-fifty , he said , that that would be said to be too big , which it was of course , in that room , taking up far too much space . |
| 25 | He had no wish for company nor wanted to be anywhere else than in that room with the paint-flecked table . |
| 26 | ‘ What was he doing in that room in the middle of the night ? ’ |
| 27 | He died in that room , you know . |
| 28 | Tell me , in that room of fine people , is n't there one face you look at , one person you 're interested in ? ’ |
| 29 | Then children could play with robot animals in that room . |
| 30 | Alright after you you perhaps took wagons down and put into that place where you and find the old ones in that room where your wagons are you see . |