Example sentences of "[pron] room for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the morning , I paid my disdainful landlady for the use of my room for the rest of the day . |
| 2 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 3 | So I came out of my room for a little walk along the gallery . |
| 4 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday I bought a really cheap guitar and chord book from Argos and sat in my room for about 6 months and lear n't to play the entire Siouxsie & The Banshees first album . ’ |
| 5 | Then I could walk home in daylight , but at bedtime I still searched my room for the murderer , who wore a black leather built-up surgical boot that swung and lurched down thick-pile carpets towards his victims . |
| 6 | At about half past eleven I had a telephone call — I was in bed but I have an extension in my room for emergencies . |
| 7 | Well , shall we have it in my room for next week ? |
| 8 | When I was a child I once went round the house tearing all the stickers off ; I was belted and sent to my room for two days . |
| 9 | ‘ If you do n't need anything else , ’ she said distinctly , ‘ I thought I might take the transistor up to my room for company and have a rest on my bed . ’ |
| 10 | Getting my room for Christmas good god ! |
| 11 | If the bedroom you occupy is large enough to be turned into a comfortable bed-sitting-room , or if you have your own private sitting-room in the house , you can avoid trouble and confrontation by entertaining friends there , and that will be the end of it ; but if not , after a tactful explanation of your needs to your parent , you should get to the point of suggesting clearly that she might agree to retire to her room for a few hours sometimes when your friends come to the home ( after you have all shared a meal together first , if she wishes ) . |
| 12 | The nurse slept in her room for two hours while Francis dozed in his nursery . |
| 13 | As it was , she went down so badly with flu that she had to be confined to her room for the duration . |
| 14 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 15 | After such rows , her mother would sometimes stay in her room for days on end or trail round the house like a blind stranger , oblivious to Katherine 's existence . |
| 16 | Perhaps she ought simply to go home and bolt herself in her room for ever , like Rochester 's mad wife . |
| 17 | But later in the day , after the Christmas meal , alone in her room for an hour 's rest , she unpacked it with all its effects . |
| 18 | She saw no servants at all , and was on her way back to her room for lunch , when she heard a cry . |
| 19 | When she was about three months pregnant , and feeling totally rejected by everyone , she got into a very depressed state , staying in her room for several days without moving , wondering if this was what it was like to be dead . |
| 20 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 21 | Fabia had been in her room for a good half-hour before she cooled down sufficiently to realise that maybe her reaction to Lubor 's hauling her into his arms had been a little — fierce — perhaps . |
| 22 | She had no intention whatsoever of breakfasting with him , though , and stayed in her room for as long as she could bear it . |
| 23 | Compounded by their own unconscious survival strategy , their room for manoeuvre appears to shrink until it vanishes . |
| 24 | The centralised technical control , exercised by the chief engineer 's department at headquarters , meant that the men who had accepted these posts were to find their room for independent and creative action significantly more constrained than was the case for their colleagues in the Area Boards . |
| 25 | Not only do they operate under a variety of influences which limit their room for manoeuvre , but public examinations , based on subjects , are a major constraint , recently reinforced by the subject-based GCSE examinations . |
| 26 | Their room for manoeuvre , however , was judged to be limited because the budget was generally considered to be the product of the constraints which the Democrat-dominated Congress had imposed in October 1990 on domestic and defence expenditure [ see p. 37768 ] . |
| 27 | But they wo n't be able to deal with their main sources of production , as er Professor Bradshaw said there , they 're going to have absolutely you 've got no control over the track on on which they operate , and they ar going to have to hire their carriages from and rolling stock from a separate leasing company , so their room for manoeuvre is limited to say the least . |
| 28 | Besides , with GEMU , which no East German politician dare oppose , East Germany will already have yielded its monetary sovereignty to the West German Bundesbank and with it a lot of its room for political manoeuvre . |
| 29 | Allowing the 1 cm of fish per 3.5 litres of water ( 1″ of fish to 2 imperial gallons ) rule to apply gave me room for five small fish . |
| 30 | Is there room for improvement ? |