Example sentences of "[noun sg] room [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the guests stepped off the cloth into the wedding room the business of the coconut was repeated all over again . |
| 2 | In the locker room the steel grilles are pasted with letters that say , Thanks for your kindness for making a tough time much easier to bear , and , If it was n't for all of you there at the hospital I do n't know how we would have survived . |
| 3 | In his comfortable living room a Transylvanian poet scoffed at the idea of protest : ‘ On a barricade you burn like a flame in seconds . |
| 4 | An architect by profession , he took six months off work to help the builders make the house habitable , and then he and Anne painted it from top to bottom in a vibrant range of colour schemes , theirs is the tonic to take : the narrow winding staircase is an orangey red , the kitchen a pale blue , the living room a shade of yellow , the conservatory woodwork a blue-green , and so on . |
| 5 | Was the living room a com a com combined sitting and dining room ? |
| 6 | Teacher Julian Chapman came home to this : his living room a virtual pond . |
| 7 | Is the living room the right shape , facing south and with a pleasant view ? |
| 8 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 9 | From their first-floor sitting room the Lloyds have a new perspective on the garden , the pool and the top of their pergola ! |
| 10 | In the first-floor sitting room the log fire throws a soft light over burnished wood , an 18th-century red-brick doll 's house and an antique Persian rug . |
| 11 | There in the King 's sitting room the clerk noted ‘ a harpsichord by Handell in a walnut tree case ’ Clearly there are two scribal errors here the spelling of the composer 's name and the omission of a verb : these make it possible to argue ( if a little perversely ) that this was just another of those many instruments reputed to have been played by Handel . |
| 12 | I know , see the worst thing in , in a sitting room the carpet Jimmy |
| 13 | Inside the weight room a tape blared out the music of The Doors to remove the tedium of the hour-and-a-half session spent lifting , pushing and battling with weights . |
| 14 | In the drawing room a pair of pink marble pillars supported the embrasure of the windows . |
| 15 | Upright chairs were placed around the walls of the drawing room a large distance from one another . |
| 16 | Once in the drawing room the party seemed to divide , Ianthe talking to Edwin Pettigrew about dogs , Mark rather nobly taking on Daisy , and Sophia and Penelope plying Rupert with questions about himself , his life , and his work , probing to find out without actually asking whether he had a mother , wife , fiancee , or ‘ friend ’ in the background . |
| 17 | There 's a big engine room a couple of hundred feet underground or so with all the winding gear and the cages and the hydraulic pumps . " |
| 18 | I well remember watching from the projection room the first showing in Vancouver of ‘ Knickerbocker Holiday ’ , with Charles Coburn singing that fine old ballad ‘ September Song ’ . |
| 19 | I also wondered — I was only seven — if the fire had anything to do with Alf Norris and I looking into the boiler room the day before ! |
| 20 | At a special presentation in the Hammersmith Main Board Room the delegates received their certificates from Wimpey Group Services ' chairman , David Penton . |
| 21 | In the first half of 1853 he initiated or sanctioned three responses : " He appealed to Great Britain for support , and took out of the lumber room the forgotten agreement of 1844 " ; he sent an emissary to Constantinople for bilateral talks ; and he began to make plans for fighting . |
| 22 | This is particularly important if you are allowed to take into the examination room a small calculating machine . |
| 23 | Main picture : In the kitchen/dining room a magnificent arrangement of satin ribbons finishes off the table setting |
| 24 | Indeed , they will often join you in your quest , because , frankly , up in the paperback room the wealth of works , the sliding panels concealing book upon book , the spinning towers stacked with glossy pocket editions , bewilder the most ardent browser . |
| 25 | In the motel room the phone rings again an hour later . |
| 26 | That same Sunday , in the evening , there was played out in the Cabinet Room the sad farce of waiting for the telegram of conditions for the line of credit front Morgans ' in New York , relayed through the Bank of England , and containing when it came the terms which were wanted by MacDonald and Snowden , but which were anathema to half the Cabinet . |
| 27 | In the drawing room there was none of the untidy , unmatched squalor that made the morning room a place where troubles or pleasures could have their breathing spaces . |
| 28 | Something had , at any rate , when she returned to the dining room a few minutes later . |
| 29 | ‘ In another location I would probably have a full dining room every night , but that is only a part of what is important to me . |
| 30 | As he entered the dining room the gong was just being sounded by a squat elderly women who later proved to be Frau Zimmerman , wife of the proprietor . |