Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] room " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 2 | These producers were carried out in a darkened room . |
| 3 | A man wakes up in a beautiful room in a strange house . |
| 4 | But it sprawled and flailed round in the small room and I suddenly realized it was going to attack me . |
| 5 | Taipei itself looked beautiful from the high balcony on which she and Florian stood , by night a glittering bowl from which the hum and roar of its mind-numbing traffic rose to compete with the sounds of the party going on in the large room behind them . |
| 6 | There was even the same poker game going on in the back room , a game I could n't get in on but which I could glimpse every time the same barmaid took refills through . |
| 7 | I should be inside , Robyn thought , lying down in a darkened room . |
| 8 | She remembered waking up in a long room filled with covered beds ; knocking a uniformed man to the ground ; taking his gun and running . |
| 9 | Pool Bank has its own ghost , that of an unfortunate wife who was walled up in a small room and left to starve to death . |
| 10 | More serious offences such as being drunk and disorderly or damaging property , labelled him as REFRACTORY , and he could then be locked up in a separate room with bread and water for twenty-four hours . |
| 11 | One school of thought has it that William received his regular thrashing for untidy work and was then locked up in a tiny room to rewrite it . |
| 12 | Agnes went back into the cottage and , hearing Alisdair moving around in the other room , poured the water into a basin so that he might wash . |
| 13 | The kids are larking about in the steam-filled room , and the girl seems grateful for adult conversation . |
| 14 | ‘ Somebody 's moving about in the locked room , ’ I thought . |
| 15 | He glanced round in the darkened room . |
| 16 | I had been aware , intellectually , that the background level of irradiation is really quite high ( as I write the clicking of a geiger counter left switched on in an adjacent room reminds me ) but it took the Phywe cloud chamber to make me realise that irradiation is not a separate thing but truly a part of life . |
| 17 | Servants came , and wrapped them in soft new sheets together , and carried them to the bed which they had set up in the white room . |
| 18 | It 's all laid out in the back room . |
| 19 | Rob 's laughter rang out in the cosy room , the faint white lines around his eyes wrinkling against his winter tan . |
| 20 | Pandemonium broke out in the graceful room . |
| 21 | If you make it a habit , you 'll soon find you are breathing evenly when you arrive and you wo n't feel the need to lie down in a darkened room to recover from your exertions ! |
| 22 | When the light went out in the last room , Bridget began to get up . |
| 23 | Oh well we 'll go back in the other room . |
| 24 | come on in the other room Michael , right , now you 've got your dummy |
| 25 | We heard them settling down in the next room which until then had been empty . |
| 26 | Perhaps eight people of various ages will be invited to an agency and will sit around in a comfortable room simply responding to very informal promptings from the discussion leader . |
| 27 | ‘ Because one thing 's for certain , Charlie Trumper , ’ she told him as they sat down in the little room at the back of Salmon 's to check the monthly accounts , ‘ you do n't know the first thing about butchery . |
| 28 | At 9 p.m. the women sat down in the common room and said they were n't going to bed until the heating was fixed . |
| 29 | ‘ Like a dog you keep chained up in a dark room . |
| 30 | That night the adults sat round in the front room , among the Christmas lilies and gladioli in the last of the evening sun and talked after supper . |