Example sentences of "back to [pron] [adj] room " in BNC.

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1 Feeling vaguely foolish , the pair went back to their own room .
2 Isabel Lavender went back to her own room .
3 In the morning Sam rose first and went back to her own room to dress .
4 She closed the door softly behind her and went back to her own room next door .
5 She sat with Aunt Emily again in the early evenings and read to her , staying with her most nights until she had slipped into sleep when she would tiptoe back to her own room and write home to Bewick or to George Langley in Cambridge .
6 But there was no answer when she knocked on Louise 's door , nor when she tried another new friend 's door at the far end of the passage , and this was so discouraging that she went back to her own room and cried till her blue eyes wre red-rimmed and swollen .
7 After he 'd gone she borrowed his bathrobe and made her way back to her own room to dress .
8 Say nothing to anybody else , and now , go back to your own room . ’
9 I 'll take you back to your own room now , if you say the word . ’
10 I ought to take you back to your own room . ’
11 Michele met her startled glance and explained calmly , ‘ I wanted to make love to you , and I did n't fancy the idea of having to take you back to your own room in the middle of the night to save Rosa 's tender susceptibilities . ’
12 It was when I got back to my new room there that I first came across my new neighbours , Jane and Mark Walsh , and their two children , Sonja and Darren .
13 ‘ I 'm just going back to my own room . ’
14 ‘ It was an old-fashioned impulse which drove me back to my own room before the house staff and my other guests awoke .
15 So now here I am — Mrs Tamm wo n't leave her desk — not heading back to my own room and my labours on the great Assessment , but in the back parts of the building where I have never been before , picking my way blindly along the twisting ad hoc corridors , up and down odd arbitrary stairs , in the faint hope of ( seeing also ) .
16 I hope she do n't tell me to go back to my old room , cos I really like sleeping with Marie .
17 I was lucky in meeting a cab as I left the bank , and I went back to my anonymous room in Peel Square .
18 He stayed there until six forty-five this morning , then went back to his own room .
19 He might even have gone back to his own room .
20 Shivering , he splashed cold water on his face and washed his hands and then hurried back to his own room , trying to decide whether it would be better to go back to bed , or to get up , get breakfast and do a little study before Senga was up and about .
21 As he did so , he kept darting his eyes nervously back to his little room and the manuscript on the desk ; but when he got back in , puffing a little , he was smiling and giving little mutters of pleasure : ‘ Well , this sure is nice of you , real friendly … ’
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