Example sentences of "[art] room " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best preliminary plan may be for the reader to open the book upright at ( the illustration ) and then go to the other side of the room , to be imposed on from a distance : it is the nearest the book can offer to the proper first encounter with the figure . |
| 2 | Harold Pinter occupies a unique place in contemporary theatre as a distinctive stylist , and I suggest you read some of his early short plays like The Room and The Dumb Waiter before going on to his major plays like The Birthday Party and The Caretaker . |
| 3 | — Now you shall see , but take this by the way — He came home this Morning at his usual Hour of Four , waken 'd me out of a sweet Dream of something else , by tumbling over the Tea-table , which he broke all to pieces , after his Man and he had rowl 'd about the Room like sick Passengers in a Storm , he comes flounce into Bed , dead as a Salmon into a Fishmonger 's Basket ; his Feet cold as Ice , his Breath hot as a Furnace , and his hands and Face as greasy as his Flanel Night-cap. — O Matrimony ! |
| 4 | There is the clearing of the room , the removal of any trace of what had previously filled it . |
| 5 | I like the sense of its filling the room and yet also , in a way , of its being non-existent . |
| 6 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 7 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 8 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 9 | Even in gallery , he wrote , it will disturb no one , merely make it a little more difficult to get from one side of the room to the other . |
| 10 | Even now , he wrote , with the first heat of early summer in the middle of London , even now , with all the windows open , the glass freezes the room . |
| 11 | I can hardly bear to enter the room where it stands , he wrote . |
| 12 | The nights spent in the room under the cold fluorescent light . |
| 13 | Days , wrote Harsnet , since I last entered the room . |
| 14 | Yesterday able to enter the room once more , he wrote . |
| 15 | Could not stay long in the room with it , but the ice had been broken . |
| 16 | Air less thin in the room . |
| 17 | as if now Goldberg is in the room with the glass I no longer exist . |
| 18 | Having Goldberg in the room with it , as he has been in my life since that first day at college , made me grasp clearly , for the first time , just what it is I have been after , he wrote . |
| 19 | The hours in the room under the hard fluorescent light . |
| 20 | When I am not in the room with it , he wrote , it no longer exists . |
| 21 | When I sit in the room with it , he wrote , it 's like sitting in a room with a corpse . |
| 22 | The nights in the room were false and useless and meaningless and the nights walking the city were false and useless and meaningless , the notes for the box were false and useless and meaningless and this freewheeling account of the progress of the glass is false and useless and meaningless , late and doubly late and unaware of its lateness , nothing and again nothing and worse than nothing . |
| 23 | When he had done I followed him out of the room and shut the door . |
| 24 | Typical of most of the systems that will be at HOTECH are wake-up and message services ; posting of charges for telephone calls to the room account ; facilities to advise housekeeping when bedrooms are free for cleaning ; and display of the guest 's name on the operator console . |
| 25 | A DTS spokeswoman explained : ‘ Once a guest has checked out , the room telephone is automatically disabled to prevent unauthorised use , and the room status changes to ‘ requires cleaning ’ . |
| 26 | A DTS spokeswoman explained : ‘ Once a guest has checked out , the room telephone is automatically disabled to prevent unauthorised use , and the room status changes to ‘ requires cleaning ’ . |
| 27 | The room maid can enter maintenance requests into the system via the telephone , saving time in tracking down members of staff . ’ |
| 28 | When all people occupying a room have checked out of the hotel , the room status is changed to ‘ not occupied ’ . |
| 29 | And so saying she gathered up her shawl , adjusted her mittens and scuttled from the room . |
| 30 | At the far end of the room the object of his attention was exhibiting a reciprocal interest . |