Example sentences of "[prep] room to [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thought it was normal for Lucy ( they had never called her Mummy ) to fly from room to room looking for her watch , keys , diary , gloves , scarf , and blow a kiss to them from the garden path as the taxi-driver carried her cello out to the car , while Nissy held them up to the window to wave . |
| 2 | So nobody saw Rupert return to his house , or standing in his overcoat in the unheated hall , opening late Christmas cards , then going from room to room switching on electric fires . |
| 3 | The Sheikha , her veils over her mask , went from room to room injecting order into confusion . |
| 4 | Using this form go from room to room noting down what it would cost you to replace as new every item in it . |
| 5 | They tell such horror stories as GE putting up sales teams from competing suppliers in the same hotel and then moving from room to room asking each supplier to think about reducing its bid for the contract . |