Example sentences of "room and [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two or three lounge chairs borrowed from the staff room and arranged in a neutral corner of the classroom in an informal way for the interviews provides a much more relaxed atmosphere for an exchange of views and information . |
| 2 | A black velvet mat was placed on a table in a darkened room and illuminated with a table lamp placed at 40cm from the mat . |
| 3 | After he had gone , I packed my own cases , checked the drawers and cupboards of our room and called for a porter . |
| 4 | With me coming from the North of England , everybody is pretty reserved up there at the best of times , so coming down to London and meeting Angie with an American accent and flitting around the room and speaking in a loud voice all the time , it was amazing . |
| 5 | Their grandparents had made the lounge into a bedroom so that Grandad did n't have to do the stairs with his bad legs and a bedroom had been turned into a sitting room and furnished with a table , chairs and sideboard that her parents had acquired when they got married though they had no house to put it in . |
| 6 | Mossadeq received him in bed ; he fluttered his hands as Harriman came into the room and launched into a fluting tirade against the British . |
| 7 | Dexter eased himself across the room and spoke in a whisper . |
| 8 | She knocked loudly at the door of his room and carried in a tray of caviar . |
| 9 | He went into his room and put on a record while he decided what to do and for a time became lost in the music . |
| 10 | After a short while they retired to the back room and sat in a kind of play-pen atmosphere analysing Judit 's most recent game with a young American visitor . |