Example sentences of "room and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It filled the room and spilled out towards the fringe of trees .
2 About ten minutes later , we decide we 've cooled down sufficiently to be able to leave the men 's room and go back into the restaurant .
3 McLeish stopped at the door of the interview room and looked in through the spy-hole , wanting to get some feel for the evidently hostile and , by all accounts , neurotic Penelope Huntley .
4 He went to the long table in the centre of the room and looked down at the detailed map spread out across its surface .
5 Standing in the Townley Room and looking through to the sculptures displayed next door ( Room 83 ) , most of which were intended for public display , one is well aware of the reduced scale and decorative qualities sought by the private collector who wined and dined amidst his collection .
6 You grabbed your jacket from the Green Room and rushed out of the theatre .
7 Slipping it under a broad embroidered bracelet , she left her room and sauntered over to the business school .
8 I went back to the dining-room window , and as I looked in again , Stapleton left the room and came out of the house .
9 Pooley deposited the tray in the Coffee Room and went up to the gallery where Fishbane was awaiting a summons .
10 At nine o'clock he left his room and went down to the bar .
11 The " furniture " was then to be arranged into a design for the room and drawn on to the grid .
12 They went back to the drawing room and settled down into the sofa to talk horses .
13 We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies .
14 She escaped to her own room and sat down on the bed , huddling in her damp raincoat and picking at the stitches of the band on her arm .
15 She followed him into the other room and sat down on the sofa to pour out while Penry put a match to the kindling in the stove .
16 . Daryl was utterly taken about , what in the wide world did Sally mean , she watched the girl go out of the room and sat down on the form completely bewildered .
17 He tossed the empty packet onto the overflowing bin in the corner of the room and sat down at the table .
18 Taking a deep breath , he walked slowly across the room and sat down in the easy chair directly facing his mother .
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