Example sentences of "[pos pn] room at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ask me how much I paid for everything I was wearing , how much I pay for my room at the pension , how much salary I shall be getting at the university — a salary to me ridiculously small , little more than pocket-money , but for the majority of working-class Spaniards a fortune . |
| 2 | Because the cafés were so noisy and crowded , we had started working on our poems in my room at the Colegio . |
| 3 | By the time I 've paid for my room at the YWCA and bought all the make-up and clothes I need there never seems to be anything left over . |
| 4 | One woman who sleeps apart from her husband said : ‘ When he comes into my room at night I feel like a girl of 18 . ’ |
| 5 | I sit in my room at the top of the house with my swabs and solvents , my brushes and pigments . |
| 6 | Carrie said , ‘ Nick sleeps in my room at home because he has bad dreams sometimes . |
| 7 | We went into my room at last , with our arms round each other , and in the doorway I stopped dead because I 'd forgotten what Toby had said about John and for a second I thought I was in the wrong room . |
| 8 | I let him sleep in my room at night , and he kept me awake for hours talking about Mrs Robinson . |
| 9 | They could n't put a cloth over it , you know , like I had that night when the Corporal rushed , parang drawn , into my room at the O. T. X-Ray . |
| 10 | He would come into my room at night . |
| 11 | In her room at Hugo 's Central Park triplex Harriet was dressed and ready for dinner . |
| 12 | Her jaw and cheekbone were broken , and her room at The Green residential home in Redruth , Cornwall , was splattered with blood . |
| 13 | She also suffered a broken jaw and cheekbone in the attack in her room at the home where she was the eldest resident . |
| 14 | Tracey Cole , 18 , was found in her room at Oxford 's Lady Margaret Hall , after hanging herself with a dressing gown cord . |
| 15 | Two men , aged 26 and 27 , contested the case but were found guilty of rape and aiding and abetting each other on the sex attacks on a 21-year-old French woman , who told how the two burst into her room at a friend 's flat while she was reading the Bible . |
| 16 | Twice she has got out of her room at night , as you know . |
| 17 | In her room at the Hôtel des Indes in The Hague she contracted pneumonia which turned to pleurisy . |
| 18 | After her small bedroom at home , where beloved old ornaments belonging once to her mother jostled for space with a basket of ironing she had n't yet had time for , and nursing textbooks that would n't fit on her one small bookshelf , or her room at the nurses ' home , where exotic travel posters — gleaned from a travel agent next to her father 's hardware shop — could n't disguise the institutional plainness of the furnishings , this room seemed palatial . |
| 19 | It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage . |
| 20 | Amaranth , thirty-nine rising forty , darkly blonde and almost beautiful , stood posed before the glass in her room at ‘ Mon Repos ’ , a genteel boarding house in Gardner Street , Brighton . |
| 21 | The plan — a simple one — was for the Tongue to be stolen immediately after Laura had installed herself in her room at The Randolph . |
| 22 | ‘ They will cheer up her room at the Goldener Adler . ’ |
| 23 | It was obvious he did n't want to start up what he had decisively ended that night in her room at Rocamar . |
| 24 | An inquest has opened on a brilliant student found hanging in her room at an Oxford college . |
| 25 | The Home Office wants to prevent any repetition of last week 's incident when two Kurds facing deportation from Heathrow Airport set fire to their room at the nearby Harmondsworth Detention Centre . |
| 26 | Dot wanted to be back in their room at Mrs Parvis 's . |
| 27 | Doth not the good father in short time , either by his coughing or spitting or testiness … become troublesome either to his own son or to his nice daughter-in-law , with continuing so long chargeable and so much waited-on , or to the children , with taking up their room at the fire or at the table , or to the servants , while his slow eating doth scant their reversions ? |
| 28 | TWO days later a burglar was shot dead outside their room at night . |
| 29 | Their room at school , within a few weeks of Katherine arrival , had by a few deft touches and additions acquired a new look . |
| 30 | Back in their room at the auberge , Melissa took the tissue from her pocket and spread it with its contents on the table . |