Example sentences of "the room at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He requested that his parents and a very close friend of ours say goodbye to him , and that I 'd be in the room at the time and stay with him when they said goodbye . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , goody goody , ’ said Malleson coming into the room at the same time . |
| 3 | P.C. Torney claimed that Hickson 's story was fabrication , and said the youth was prancing around the room at the police station , boxing and boasting of his prowess as a boxer … as a result of the boisterous behaviour , he caught his eye on a window-ledge . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sleep did n't come easily when she was at home , or rather in the room at the hospital . |
| 7 | ‘ Let's have it in the sitting-room , ’ Miss Honey said , picking up the tray and leading the way out of the kitchen and down the dark little tunnel into the room at the front . |
| 8 | Luckily my mother was out of the room at the time , or Dawn and I might have been sent to our room for giving her precious cat a heart attack . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | In dreams he 'd drifted through these rooms , and heard the Maestro 's voice summoning him up the stairs , up ! up ! , to the room at the top where Sartori had worked his work . |
| 11 | I always wanted the room at the top of the house so that , when the axe-wielding psycho came in , I 'd be the last to be killed . |
| 12 | Ellie knew at once which door it must unlock , because the room at the end of the landing was the only room kept locked . |
| 13 | Well then as the unit got bigger , as I said , the room at the offices in the Lock was n't big enough so we moved from there to Alma Green Infant School , that 's the school now they used for all kinds of social activities during the day and th on that side by the car park . |
| 14 | She rushed from the room at the sound of the taxi honking and Kate watched her go with a pang of regret . |
| 15 | I say , and laugh , sitting back and looking round the room at the bare paint walls and the constable sitting by the door . |
| 16 | Bradman says it was Fingleton , Fingleton said it was Bradman , and Leo O'Brien ( the 12th man ) further confused the issue by revealing in a recent interview with Wisden Cricket Monthly that neither Bradman nor Fingleton was in the room at the time of the exchange , but ( former Australian Test players ) Ryder and Kippax , who were both reporting the matches in one way or another , were . ’ |
| 17 | The young graduates lift the hair out of their eyes , and for an instant glance round the room at the rather good , slightly worn furnishings . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Let it be noted that J , head of was actually in the room at the time of this meeting . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Those things she knew about Gus Hambro which did not fit into this picture , such as his manipulations over the room at the inn , she did not care to mention to anyone until she herself understood them better . |
| 22 | There was no-one in the room at the time for Murray had only newly lit the fire and the table was still unlaid apart from the great branching candelabra like silver trees . |
| 23 | In fact , he was n't even in the room at the moment , thank goodness , and Bill was absorbed in conversation . |
| 24 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
| 25 | A dado rail , fixed round the room at the level of chair backs , with painted panelling below it will add more character . |
| 26 | But , despite the unwilling admission , he looked across the room at the soldier rather in the manner of one who hoped he had heard incorrectly . |
| 27 | She had sensed the undercurrents in the room at the time , but had been too tense and afraid to take much notice . |
| 28 | Maxim sipped his coffee and glanced covertly round the room at the shelves of leather-bound legal volumes a row of Spy 's legal cartoons framed degrees and photographs of Magill as a young soldier and he guessed General ‘ Wild Bill ’ Donovan the founder of US intelligence . |
| 29 | But now a new pattern emerged as the red and brown shapes blocked together to form overlapping triangles all pointing across the room at the double doors opposite . |
| 30 | There was another MP sitting on a chair outside the room at the far end where the passage ran into a blank wall . |