Example sentences of "room at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No part of the accommodation had been specifically designed as a sick bay , but at an early stage the directors , on his advice , fitted up the room at the eastern extremity as a ‘ suitable place of confinement ’ . |
| 2 | I use a room at the Grand Hotel twice weekly , on a Tuesday and Thursday evening and do all the teaching myself . |
| 3 | Her initial nerves had all gone now although it still felt strange to be on a catwalk rather than the carpeted floor of the room at the Grand Hotel . |
| 4 | When he got back to his room at the Grand Hotel , he spoke urgently to his solicitor with a view to bringing a private prosecution against the Party 's chief agent for assault and battery . |
| 5 | A good place to find primary evidence of this nature is in the Edinburgh Room at the Central Library . |
| 6 | As he stood there , staring across the room at the invisible Bella , his bearing both haughty and disdainful , he looked every inch one of the Lords of the Earth , and Cassie supposed that in his way and in his time , he was . |
| 7 | I say , and laugh , sitting back and looking round the room at the bare paint walls and the constable sitting by the door . |
| 8 | He gazed round the sitting room at the long wall of books , the crackling wood fire , the oil of the Victorian prelate above the mantelshelf as if deliberately impressing each item on his mind , then sank into his chair and stretched out his long legs with a small grunt of satisfaction . |
| 9 | ‘ Shall we adjourn to your office ? ’ he suggested , meaning a poky room at the far end of the mill . |
| 10 | They watched him shoulder his way jovially through the dancers towards the door of the committee room at the far end of the social room . |
| 11 | There was another MP sitting on a chair outside the room at the far end where the passage ran into a blank wall . |
| 12 | To collect the takings , er from the vending machine you have to go through the adjacent community room into a small box room at the far end . |
| 13 | There was n't much to it , just painted ply over a cardboard shell , and its lock went spinning across the room at the second kick . |
| 14 | James Stavanger used to keep the gold in the strong room at the Upper Thames Street branch of the bank . |
| 15 | A black coated , white-haired man , who bore the harassed look of the functionary in charge of the ball 's preparations , stepped from the supper room at the peremptory summons . |
| 16 | Meetings , held at 7.30pm on the first Monday of the month , now take place in a private room at the New Inn , Winsick , Nr . |
| 17 | Now , aspiring judges are called to a room at the western end of the Palace of Westminster overlooking the Thames , and , seated on chairs stamped with the gilt portcullis , interviewed about their suitability for the job . |
| 18 | The court room at the Old Bailey was hushed dock went in for the jury to return for their verdict . |
| 19 | To emphasise fully the drama of this grand space , rather than remove the raised hay-loft occupying the south end of the building , it was decided to retain this area as a dining gallery overlooking the living room , with a private sitting room at the same level lying behind a new partition . |
| 20 | Gillian and her team reached the conference room at the same time as the clients . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , goody goody , ’ said Malleson coming into the room at the same time . |
| 22 | Halifax was called in privately to Chamberlain 's room at the same time as Winston , and he assumed he would get the PM 's job . |
| 23 | but I mean , him and Joe were in the room at the same time . |
| 24 | Commander Zadak was in his room at the biggest hotel in Kisangani . |
| 25 | However diligently the football authorities in Scotland have tried to manage the psychologies and sensibilities of the national team , they have inevitably put the wrong people , in the wrong room at the wrong time . |
| 26 | The room at the top stretches from the front to the back of the house and is the domain of the Pages ' younger son , Nicholas . |
| 27 | ROOM AT THE TOP Max Egremont in his garret at Petworth |
| 28 | In the meantime , my evenings were spent at art and etching classes and Saturday afternoons in the Print Room at the British Museum , in the days of Campbell Dodgson , Professor Hind and Laurence Binyon . |
| 29 | I was on the downhill slope of a new novel and needed to visit the Reading Room at the British Museum most days . |
| 30 | The Home Office wants to prevent any repetition of last week 's incident when two Kurds facing deportation from Heathrow Airport set fire to their room at the nearby Harmondsworth Detention Centre . |