Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [verb] [prep] the room " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cat jumped down and walked across the room . |
| 2 | Kelly put the phone down and skipped around the room . |
| 3 | Lorton hooked a leg over and climbed into the room . |
| 4 | Lifting the white towelling robe from its hook behind the door , she slipped it on and hurried from the room and along the balcony to find him , smiling when she heard the low rumble of his deep voice coming from downstairs in the living-room . |
| 5 | He sat up and looked around the room . |
| 6 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 7 | Then he stood up and strode from the room , and she all but collapsed into the chair he 'd just vacated , feeling as though she 'd been battered by a storm at sea . |
| 8 | She stood up and walked from the room without so much as a backward glance , and Shae looked down at her hands , surprised to find they were trembling , though they 'd been rock steady just minutes before . |
| 9 | I shift this extraordinary document across to the stack of papers I have read , then get up and walk about the room . |
| 10 | After tossing restlessly for more than an hour , Fran got up and crept from the room and down the stairs , hoping that a cup of tea would soothe her nerves . |
| 11 | Howard gets up and walks about the room with his coffee , smiling , and taking care not to fall over the furniture . |
| 12 | He got up and moved about the room , picking up ornaments and moving restlessly from one side to the other . |
| 13 | He got up and wandered round the room . |
| 14 | A dangerous sparkle of anticipation in her eyes , Maria drew her shoulders back and walked across the room with her host at her side . |
| 15 | I say , and laugh , sitting back and looking round the room at the bare paint walls and the constable sitting by the door . |
| 16 | He pushed his chair back and wandered around the room . |
| 17 | ‘ You might be dying with tonsillitis and every f—er is taking the piss out of yer and running around and shouting in the room . ’ |
| 18 | He turned around and spoke into the room behind him , then moved out of sight . |
| 19 | Just for a second longer she hovered uncertainly in the doorway , fighting against the urge to beg him to find someone else to teach him before she spun round and ran from the room . |
| 20 | The erstwhile churchman , standing by the window where he could not be seen from below , turned round and advanced into the room , smiling , the patches of eczema on his face reddening with pleasure . |