Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the room " in BNC.
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| 1 | He crept from the room to the shadowed corridor , tip-toed past the attic door to the little corner where the banister curved into the wall . |
| 2 | He says that when he got into the room the double bed was alight , he picked up the babies and got them out as quickly as he could . |
| 3 | The room fell silent , and from his great height he gazed over the room with that familiar expression he put on when being headmasterly — an expression that was at once dyspeptic yet predatory ( for were they not , after all , his prey ? ) . |
| 4 | As he moved into the room he was aware of Massingham behind him , alert , already drawing on his gloves but , for him , unnaturally subservient , pacing quietly behind his chief like a recently qualified houseman deferentially attendant on the consultant . |
| 5 | He frowned as he moved about the room . |
| 6 | He moved across the room and out of the door without a glance at Gwen . |
| 7 | He moved round the room — in so far as it was possible in such cramped quarters — glad to he relieved momentarily of desk work but perhaps by way of indicating that the interview must be conducted as if we were both on the move ; and this meant that certain remarks were addressed to the window or the mantelpiece . |
| 8 | He paced about the room , his heels echoing on the marble . |
| 9 | Instead he paced about the room . |
| 10 | He paced around the room . |
| 11 | He entered into the room , tall dark and handsome , looking like a character straight out of a Clarke Gable movie . |
| 12 | He ranged about the room uneasily and leaned to her ear again : ‘ Waste of time ! |
| 13 | When he came into the room , sleepy and rubbing his eyes , he too stared as if not able to believe how like all other mornings the morning was . |
| 14 | Then , he came into the room . |
| 15 | The small one , who was fat and bald and wore a green baize apron , looked positively livid with fury as he came into the room . |
| 16 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 17 | As he came into the room , he realised that she was crying quietly , and he went up to her and put his arms around her as tightly and as reassuringly as possible . |
| 18 | He chose to sleep in Three because it had the best view of the Jubilee Line , unobstructed by trees , and as he came into the room and crossed to the window , he saw beyond the garden and the trees and the rhubarb plantation a silver train speeding southwards . |
| 19 | I ca n't say touch for touch how we became lovers because , really , we had been ever since he came into the room and found me still there , waiting and pretending . |
| 20 | But Flavia , her eyes full of her love for me , held out her hand to Sapt as he came into the room . |
| 21 | But the appearance of Howard when he came into the room must have impressed him in spite of himself — the bulging clear blue eyes , the eager lean of the body forward , the anxiety on the face to understand the world around him . |
| 22 | ‘ Hello , ’ said Mrs. Hennessy , turning off the vacuum cleaner once again as he came into the room . |
| 23 | He came into the room once , said , " Put away your books , " and read us The Lemnian , Buchan 's story about Thermopylae . |
| 24 | I held out my hands to my father as he came into the room , and he took me in his arms . |
| 25 | Lisa watched with irritation as he came into the room , pushed aside his coat and sat down in the armchair . |
| 26 | He came into the room with the air of a messenger . |
| 27 | There was a long pause , then he came into the room . |
| 28 | He came into the room and poured himself a glass of water from the earthenware jug which stood , as it did in all the offices of Cairo , in the window so that the air currents could cool it . |
| 29 | Wearing a black , gold-embroidered silk cloak over a finely woven shamma , he came across the room to greet us , shook hands and with a smile and a gesture invited us to be seated . |
| 30 | up there and all of a sudden he saw it and he came in the room , Tony and he went he looked up at it and the stood up at the back of his neck and he was going grurgh ever so quietly under his breath grurgh . |