Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] the room " in BNC.

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1 Immediately everyone charged around the room attempting to be the first to touch all the walls .
2 But I was surprised that I got round the room , cos I 'm awful at remembering names I think I 'm gon na have to try and
3 Louisa felt a little helpless before his diffident manner , and she was surprised when Emilia insisted that she remain in the room throughout Frere 's third visit ; surprised and discomfited , for it was not a happy interview .
4 For suddenly Georg 's control had snapped and he pushed her hard , violently and savagely away from him so that she spun across the room , hurtled into the table , and nearly fell .
5 No , cos you just remember the order that you went round the room in and .
6 Lucy had no wish to be caught eavesdropping , so she walked into the room and hung the towels over the rail .
7 Ianthe could think of no ready answer , so she looked round the room to see if there was anything practical she could do .
8 Seven or eight people — some prisoners and some guards — did n't want to run away , so they came into the room and waited , too .
9 Then , grasping the shoe and using its heel as a club , smite the biscuit tin lid with such force that it flies across the room and the egg plops into the glass , unbroken .
10 It was nothing to do with David Parkin and nothing to do with the room — warm and comforting , the walls cluttered with Victorian paintings and prints , the antique furniture gleaming spotlessly .
11 And so I had to sort of go round the room and say I 'm Tony and this is , and go all round , and I got round the room .
12 Shelley , Shelley come round to me right , and she was , she was , she was stroking Dempsey and I walked in the room , this is Dempsey and he walked past me wagging his , you know when they put the tail down and
13 That 's right , , it 's a , it 's a , so my mother and I said we 're going back to that hotel , you know , were very , very kind of luxury type , so we went back to the hotel and my brother and I went into the room where we had a television view on the sea , very beautiful .
14 So I got up then and I spoke to the room you know and we were more or less helping one another out and I thought the Chairman had done well when he said erm they do n't speak er Welsh for fancy or anything they use it as every day .
15 I give you food for you and your mutt , and I sleep in the room . ’
16 Our exercise periods were indeed much longer now and I padded around the room as much as I could , but Brian would often get bored and go back to a book .
17 Matilda cried and she burst into the room , brandishing her knife .
18 George pushed a door open and stood back , and she walked into the room and stood in the center of it looking around with curiosity .
19 I must have moaned : she looked at me coldly as if suspecting some kind of trickery , and then her face altered and she came across the room to take my arm and help me back to bed .
20 And she rushed from the room .
21 if you go into the room sit down in front of the typewriter and the exam begins , and you do it you could pass easy , well I 've done it and I 've passed !
22 This course is about teams , it 's about teams of people , erm , and we have in the room one team , two teams , three teams , four teams and one the right we have a team of three .
23 I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost .
24 SOMETHING POPPED inside John Carradine 's head , and he cartwheeled across the room , dodging bullets .
25 up there and all of a sudden he saw it and he came in the room , Tony and he went he looked up at it and the stood up at the back of his neck and he was going grurgh ever so quietly under his breath grurgh .
26 Abigail 's door was ajar and he went into the room , bringing a segment of light with him , a triangle that fell short a yard from her cot .
27 The intensity of the emotions evoked by his train of thought quickened his breathing and he rushed across the room to the bookshelves in the shadows beside the ancestral altar .
28 And he walks in the room and tell me what 's going on .
29 She sat like that for what seemed like ages while I tramped round the room , nervous and on edge and blabbering with the excitement .
30 While they waited in the room , which was furnished like a nursing home , with the child reading a comic on the bed and eating a bag of shortbread biscuits , she thought that it was as well to be next door to the railway station in case she had to get away quickly .
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