Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] room [subord] " in BNC.

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1 He had been ejected during the doctor 's visit , and she let the dog back in to the room as she escorted Spilsby downstairs to the front door .
2 He swans off to the room whilst I wrestle with yards of umbilical elastic intestine , and hard cyst-like sacs which remain as elusive as end snippets of soap .
3 One child goes out of the room while all the rest are in a circle .
4 She went out of the room while he spoke on the telephone .
5 She was not quick enough to be out of the room before Mrs Eckley was in it and found herself trapped by her between chair and door .
6 Her husband Sid would recognize the warning signs when she turned pale and became anxious , and he would take her out of the room before she passed out .
7 He was out of the room before she could open the box , a dark blue leather affair , lined with white velvet , against which lay a fine gold chain with a small oval locket set around the edge with seed pearls .
8 He went to the kitchen and asked if the nurse would be so kind as to wait , just a few moments , and he was out of the room before she could tell him how tight her schedule was .
9 The point of the experiments was this : strong social pressure was being put on these children to agree to a realist answer ( they were not allowed out of the room until they had an answer ! ) and if their usual tendency to interpret questions phenomenally is a trivial and weak effect then this social pressure should obliterate it .
10 But she was n't feeling easy with him now , and as he pushed an easy-chair closer to her couch , and sat down opposite her , she had the uncanniest feeling that he was n't going to let her out of the room until she had told him every last bit of what there was to tell .
11 He stood up slowly , asked if they would like coffee , made his way out of the room when they accepted the offer .
12 I even considered swooning so as to get out of the room when suddenly a secret door just behind the throne was thrown open and the most incredible sight emerged : a man , black as night , well over two yards high .
13 ‘ Cool off , Ruth , ’ he ordered sharply and was about to slam out of the room when her speech came back in a rush and furiously she hit out with her pièce de résistance .
14 He walked out of the room as Felipe rang for Jorge , and Maggie made off too but did n't quite escape .
15 It is now possible to obtain purpose-made double-glazed units incorporating ‘ low E ’ , or low emissivity , glass which includes a thin and imperceptible metallic coating on the inside surface of the outer leaf of each unit to reflect interior heat back into the room while allowing solar heat to enter the building .
16 There will be around in the room when they 're doing this any six research students who have experience with the equipment , and a lecturer , and the school teacher who was involved in planning that day 's work .
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