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

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1 So long as people can walk out of a room and say they have decided to leave on their terms , they retain their dignity .
2 I ran out of the room but he followed me .
3 I did my best to shepherd the animal out of the room but he did n't seem to know the meaning of obedience and I chased him in vain .
4 She went out of the room but returned almost immediately .
5 One child goes out of the room while all the rest are in a circle .
6 She went out of the room while he spoke on the telephone .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 When he had done I followed him out of the room and shut the door .
14 As soon as it was light , I crept out of the room and went downstairs for a coffee at a nearby café .
15 Then we see the health care professional come out of the room and say something like , ‘ I 'm sorry , we did all we could . ’
16 In such cases , it was best to say one would go directly and to rush out of the room and hope the substitute finally brought would convince him this was what had been asked for .
17 He sped out of the room and came back with his blue knapsack , searching the contents worriedly .
18 ‘ She went out of the room and I dragged a stool over to the mirror .
19 He walked out of the room and down the broad staircase .
20 Corbett nodded and followed both the envoy and his strange companion out of the room and down to the main hall of the castle .
21 Corbett then turned on his heel and strode out of the room and made his way back up the alley .
22 He then walked out of the room and directly to the area where the collars the chimps had to wear outdoors are usually kept hanging on the wall .
23 He walked out of the room and slammed the door .
24 Twice he fell for it , running half-dressed out of the room and instructing everyone to hold the show for a few minutes .
25 She , Carrie , and George grabbed their coats and fled out of the room and down the stairs .
26 Then he said he was leaving , walked out of the room and left it to our coach Ronnie Moran .
27 Sometimes she thought that things went much better when Liza happened to be out of the room and she was alone with John .
28 There was no way that Nigel , in his coffin and with the coffin in a horizontal position , could be carried out of the room and around all the corners and down the stairs to where the Volvo was waiting .
29 She rushed out of the room and into the garden , determined not to return to the house until her mother had apologised .
30 In this case it may be by asking the child to pick up a toy , being ignored , then compelling him or her to pick it up by physical guidance then putting the child out of the room and leaving him when the inevitable tantrum occurs .
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