Example sentences of "[adj] room at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was a small back room at the back of the house , little more than a box , but when she pressed down the switch of the low-voltage nursery light she felt again a glow of maternal , proprietorial pride . |
| 3 | There 'd be a singer in the back room at the Amsterdam tonight , and the crack would be excellent . |
| 4 | Late that afternoon we made a perfect three-point landing at the RCAF airstrip in Whitehorse , capital of the Yukon Territory , where I found shelter for the night in a bare but adequate room at the Whitehorse Hotel . |
| 5 | The parlour was a big light room at the back of the house , with French windows leading to a garden . |
| 6 | Mrs Keith , Senior , who had been staying with Jim and Jean during Tina s confinement , then came back in the trap with Bruce to take up her old room at the Mackenzie 's again , and to help Hilda look after the house and wee Billy . |
| 7 | A WEEK 'S self-catering in a Standard room at Somerwest in August will cost a family of four £504 . |
| 8 | Thinking of the frail figure sitting in the gloomy room at the sanatorium , trusting the great Bonanza . |
| 9 | Too old to be in uniform , really , so he supposed he should be grateful for the desk job in a small dark room at Admiralty House . |
| 10 | Haroun had been given a small separate room at the end of the hut , as befitted a VIP . |
| 11 | I have again the impression of a girl , another girl , sitting still and silent in a crowded room at Oxford while everyone else 's meaningless chatter bumped around the walls or dropped like limp catkins on to the wood-block floor . |
| 12 | Speaking after the meeting , the Rev. Colin Noyce told the Alton Herald that since arriving in the parish some 16 months ago , he has realised the need for an extension of pastoral care , together with extra room at the church . |
| 13 | ‘ Shall we adjourn to your office ? ’ he suggested , meaning a poky room at the far end of the mill . |
| 14 | Marcel Duchamp and Jacques Villon had been influenced by the demonstration at the Indépendants , and were included in the Cubist room at the Salon d'Automne . |
| 15 | This done , the Yard 's largest , most successful and only bearded detective retired to a tiny room at the Blagrave Arms . |
| 16 | The tiny room at the back of the shop was fitted with a trestle table and two forms and country people went there for a meal on market days . |
| 17 | DeVore sat at his desk in the tiny room at the heart of the mountain . |
| 18 | The focal point of the exhibition was a giant Hall of Destruction modelled on Giulio Romano 's famous painted room at the Palazzo del Tè in Mantua . |
| 19 | She liked this large , low room at the top of the house . |
| 20 | Martin Brundle speaks with the disarming honesty of an F1 driver who is buying lunch in a private room at Au Jardin des Gourmets for a dozen pressmen on the day the Gulf war ended and a week before the F1 season started . |
| 21 | It was a dinner held at his own expense in a private room at Magdalen , and it was a symptom of his great generosity . |
| 22 | The message was delivered to his private room at Hollywood Memorial Hospital by the British consul in Miami , Philip Grice . |
| 23 | " We 'll have a regular Simla evening , " declared the Colonel , and for this nostalgic excursion he chose to dine in a private room at Kettner 's , which still exists to-day , in Romilly Street , Soho ; after dinner they were to proceed to a box at the Palace Theatre , return to Kettner 's , where they arranged to leave their dominos , and thence to a masked ball at Covent Garden . |
| 24 | He carried her to a private room at the hotel , where she could rest until she felt well enough to ride home . |
| 25 | Müller arrived ahead of him by twenty minutes and waited in the private room at the back . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | John Major was giving lunch in a private room at Langan 's to the French and German ambassadors . |
| 28 | Left : Pewter Art Deco-style picture frame , £66 , The Strong Room at Liberty |
| 29 | Above : Small Hera bullet vase in pewter , £128 , The Strong Room at Liberty |
| 30 | Left : Miniature round Art Deco-style pewter picture frame , £8.45 , The Strong Room at Liberty |