Example sentences of "room was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The normally immaculate room was a dirty mess , and pus was oozing through a leg ulceration into a bandage that looked several days old . |
| 2 | Along one side of the room was a row of doors where nurses and helpers appeared and disappeared like actors on a stage set . |
| 3 | On the wall of that room was a patch where the barometer had hung — so familiar a face that I had hardly realized it was there . |
| 4 | In the centre of the room was a monstrous machine , black and towering ; its huge bulk awesome with power . |
| 5 | The room was a walk-in freezer . |
| 6 | … the room was a mess , but there were no people there . |
| 7 | I dreaded night duty : not in itself , for the night watch in our room was a small and generally friendly one . |
| 8 | The room was a little dusky , it smelt of flowers which Franca had picked in the garden that morning . |
| 9 | Before they all knew it , Carmella 's front room was a chaos of flailing bodies , and a sea of broken glass . |
| 10 | In the centre of the room was a deal table with a top that was scrubbed daily , it had a large cutlery drawer and one of the four turned legs was well worn where generations of cats had sharpened their claws . |
| 11 | On the right at the back of the room was a matchboard door only six feet in height , leading to the scullery which was very confined , being about nine feet by six feet . |
| 12 | Here was I , struggling to free a walnut from its convoluted enclosure , exalting when at last I managed to obtain a whole half rather than a handful of shards , while in the next room was a packet replete with whole halves . |
| 13 | The right-hand half of the room was a well-equipped kitchen with a large gas stove and an Aga , a butcher 's chopping block , a dresser to the right of the door holding an assortment of gleaming pots , and a long working surface with a wooden triangle sheathing her assortment of knives . |
| 14 | In the centre of the room was a large wooden table holding a stoneware jar of dried flowers . |
| 15 | The room was a big improvement on the rat-hole he had crawled into at Hoogeveen . |
| 16 | For one thing nobody seemed to think that a reading room was a place where you were meant to read . |
| 17 | Compared to the bungalow the tack room was a miracle of neatness . |
| 18 | The ground floor was tiled , and two-thirds along the length of this massive forty-by twenty-foot room was a magnificent fireplace — the chimney breast built of huge granite stones with access on either side to what was obviously the dining-area . |
| 19 | Inside , the room was a mess . |
| 20 | The room was a shambles . |
| 21 | In the middle of the room was a round table covered with oilcloth , and four high-backed carved chairs set around it . |
| 22 | The solitary ornament in my room was a faded copy of a Biblical scene by Gustave Doré , sinners drowning in a rough sea . |
| 23 | Getting the tank into the dining room was a little bit tricky . |
| 24 | He had been apprehensive but had gone along with her idea all the same and now the small room was a regular haunt of the local foremen and managers , as well as a meeting-place for the trade union officials who held impromptu meetings over mugs of steaming hot tea and bacon sandwiches . |
| 25 | The room was a tip . |
| 26 | Walls and windows maintained a respectful distance — the room was a broad seam of sun haze and river light . |
| 27 | At the far end of one room was a wooden false door of the kind which enabled the spirit to leave its tomb at will . |
| 28 | At one end of the cubicle room was a set of scales before which another long queue was forming . |
| 29 | In Pascoe 's room was a circular coffee table with a glass top . |
| 30 | When Pascoe woke , the room was a cave ; the shrouded lamp cast a dull glow . |