noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bathroom/hall/bedroom cupboard British English
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Your boots are in the hall cupboard.
a bedroom/living-room etc carpet
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The bedroom carpet was cream.
bedroom community
bedroom/kitchen etc wall
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We decided to paint the bathroom walls blue.
bedroom/lounge etc
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The bedroom was large and comfortable with a view of the river.
master bedroom
sb's bedroom/office window
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From his bedroom window he could see two men having an argument.
the bathroom/kitchen/bedroom etc floor
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I’ve still got to clean the bathroom floor.
the kitchen/bedroom/bathroom etc door
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The kitchen door opened and Jake walked in.
the kitchen/dining/bedroom/bathroom area
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The kitchen area is rather small.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
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Below the attics was a back bedroom looking out over the flower garden, and so on to the main road beyond.
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She waits until we are in the back bedroom .
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The police were then called to the house and found two people tied up in a back bedroom .
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So we all hid in this one back bedroom , and Leonard was going, Everybody get covered.
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Four children, including a 16year-old babysitter, were trapped upstairs watching television in a back bedroom .
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She led me not to the sitting room but through to the back bedroom .
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Fire crews broke into the back bedroom and pulled out Shona Smith, 16 months, and Gavin Hurley, 8.
front
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During Isabelle Russell's lifetime, she and her husband had shared the big front bedroom .
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The historian had turned his front bedroom into a study.
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They slept in twin beds in the front bedroom of 93 Mafeking Street.
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In one house, on the corner, there was a light on in the front bedroom .
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Gerry's ship had been in the Albert Dock and they had just finished papering the front bedroom .
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Many of the fresh bedrooms overlook this. Front bedrooms are double glazed.
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Sara and I are in the front bedroom .
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He said the phone then rang and Maher took Mrs Kennedy into the front bedroom to answer it.
large
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The large bedrooms all have private bathroom, telephone, and are nicely decorated.
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Ellie, who had the only key, arrived first and, turned up the gas heater in the large bright bedroom .
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The larger bedroom was at the end of the passage, so that the bathroom was between the two sleeping rooms.
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The large bedrooms all have a private bathroom and several will take a third or fourth bed.
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Alternatively, you could partition off part of a large bedroom to create a small en suite bathroom or shower room.
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Home, for Mr Kronweiser, was a large bedroom in a working-class house to the north of the town.
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She made her way purposefully upstairs to the large bedroom at the front of the house.
main
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Above these are the two main bedrooms with their spectacular views up and down the lake.
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Mr Trilby went upstairs to the main bedroom .
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Smoke poured from the main bedroom window, and there were terrifying reports as the glass cracked in the heat.
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Meg waited until she heard the main bedroom door shut before going herself to the bathroom.
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Among these is a Victorian chaiselongue upholstered in rose red velvet in the main bedroom and a useful pine blanket box.
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A separate stair to the main bedroom on the first floor would divide the kitchen from the dining area.
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The main bedroom has balconies over the west-facing stone loggia and the bay window of the drawing-room.
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Jitka turned and put her fingers to her lips as they came to the main bedroom and they tiptoed passed.
small
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There was one rather large living-room, and a small bedroom , the door to which was covered by a curtain.
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His artist's studio is a small downstairs bedroom of his home.
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She slept in the smaller bedroom , using the larger one at the end of the passage as her working room.
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Meanwhile Bathsheba had spent a day and a night as a willing prisoner in a small bedroom in her house.
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There is a small sitting-room, a small bedroom and kitchen.
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That afternoon she took me upstairs to her small bedroom for the first time.
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There is a smaller bedroom and a tiny, suspiciously tidy kitchen, which looks as if it is not often used.
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Then there was a bathroom, and beside the bathroom, a small bedroom .
spare
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We still had two rooms left to decorate: those intended as a spare bedroom and playroom.
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After fifteen minutes Pat went back to the spare bedroom .
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She came to the spare bedroom , the one she had spent that first unforgettable night in, and slipped inside.
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About 25 million people are working from spare bedrooms , paneled basements and converted garages.
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Then the cross-shaped glazing bars of the window told him he was in the spare bedroom of Number 29.
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Turning a spare bedroom into a family room with an outdoor deck?
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She would still have a spare bedroom , quite enough for the modest entertaining she proposed to do in her widowed state.
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I tried to sleep in the spare bedroom .
twin
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The twin bedrooms are airy, spacious and comfortably furnished.
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Some twin bedrooms which will have a balcony and sea view are available at a supplement.
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Six central apartments are four bedded, with two twin bedrooms , each opening on to the balcony.
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All the simple bedrooms have telephone and twin bedrooms have a balcony.
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Prices based on 4 persons in an apartment with one twin bedroom or 6 persons in an apartment with two twin bedrooms.
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The twin bedrooms have a balcony.
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community
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In Danville, California, the bedroom community east of Oakland where they lived, they could play outdoors all year round.
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But lower-priced new homes in entry-level Maryland bedroom communities like Bowie and Arnold are moving.
door
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Vulnerable, and exposed ... The bedroom door opened, but the questioning smile died slowly on her lips.
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While Greg waited on the landing she knocked on one of the bedroom doors .
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The argument erupts just as he reaches the bedroom door .
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We came to a stop outside my bedroom door and he made a lurching movement.
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Their bedroom doors closed, and suddenly our foibles became the topic of dinner conversation.
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They looked towards the bedroom door behind which varying sounds could be heard.
floor
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Flora was lying on her bedroom floor doing her homework.
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The bedroom floor was littered with wrapping papers.
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After leaving him on the bedroom floor , he returned to throw a jug of water in his father's face.
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The four little ones she lets sleep in the bed with us; the rest curl up on the bedroom floor .
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Emily Williams, 75, was found slumped on her bedroom floor at Rumney, Cardiff, by a neighbour.
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It unrolled as he tugged it across the bedroom floor , and inside was the blood-soaked corpse of Maria Shill.
furniture
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Fitted bedroom furniture is particularly popular around the 35 years of age group.
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He was getting dressed when the building rumbled and the bedroom furniture began to dance.
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We have two wonderful prizes of bedroom furniture to be won from the top of Ducal's range.
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Maybe I was going to pick out my own bedroom furniture .
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Product segmentation of this sort is visible in clothes retailing, and the distribution of fitted kitchens and bedroom furniture .
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Regional Council employees receive ten percent discount on Blindcraft products including beds and bedroom furniture like chairs, stools and headboards.
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What's more, when you move house, your bedroom furniture can go along with you.
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However, similar problems can arise with regard to kitchen units and fitted bedroom furniture , etc and similar considerations apply.
guest
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Two of the three guest bedrooms are en suite.
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He was still asleep in the guest bedroom each morning I woke up, breakfasted, and went to school.
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She and two of the Aussies then proceeded to the next floor where guest bedrooms were to be found.
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Midge and Stevie had moved into the guest bedroom .
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The principal guest bedroom features fleur de lys wallpaper specially designed to be in keeping with the period the castle was built.
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Above: View from the guest bedroom , of Ray Talbot's split-level pool.
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There are two guest bedrooms each decorated in a country house style with dark wood furniture.
hotel
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The hotel bedrooms all have safety deposit box and telephone.
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Anything was better than being in the hotel bedroom .
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The hotel bedrooms are comfortably furnished and all have a telephone.
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The advisability of using antique furniture in a hotel bedroom is debatable.
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It all added up to a hotel bedroom .
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There were no earwigs in the Scarinish Hotel bedroom , just two flies and a moth.
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Standing in his hotel bedroom , Matt hoped he hadn't made a mistake in agreeing to see her.
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It brought me back too precipitately into the small, dimly lit world of the hotel bedroom .
master
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They went straight into the master bedroom , where a leather briefcase stood open on the floor.
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This was the master bedroom , with the master bath.
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It includes master bedroom with ensuite shower room, three further bedrooms, second bathroom, gas central heating, double garage.
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Bedroom; probably the master bedroom .
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Liz's face must have said so, for Anna undressed in the master bedroom and climbed into bed.
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The wedding was over and Edna had moved into the master bedroom .
wall
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I stopped listening to Jake Rosso's records, and took his pictures off my bedroom wall .
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The logs were uneven, making the house list toward the outside bedroom wall .
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These were the kind of people I had pinned up on my bedroom wall , and here I was meeting them.
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He stared at the bedroom wall .
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Get a long mirror fixed to your bathroom or bedroom wall and take a good look at yourself front way on.
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That was until I saw the pin-ups on his bedroom wall .
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Or you could make it into a picture for a baby or toddler to hang on their bedroom wall .
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I had hundreds of pictures and photos of him on my bedroom wall .
window
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Across the street one of his neighbours was leaning out of a bedroom window , calling for her cat.
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Through the bedroom window , Converse could see Mr Roche hosing down the lawn behind his bungalow.
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From their bedroom window they saw Victorine knock on Rose's door.
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How was it that she went sailing, like a human version of their brass vase, out the bedroom window ?
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Bill stands by the bedroom window .
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Morning sun filtered through swaying branches at the bedroom window .
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The President opened all the bedroom windows and ordered the pool heated.
■ VERB
furnish
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The rooms are well furnished and bedrooms have telephone, radio and mini-bar.
go
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With a great effort of will, he'd resisted her pleas to go to her bedroom after everyone was asleep.
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She went back to the bedroom , let Janey inside, and led her by the hand past the open bathroom door.
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I put on the towelling bathrobe and went back into the bedroom .
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Careta checked out the bills, then went into the bedroom .
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He goes into the bedroom and puts on a clean white shirt and a suit.
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He goes to the bedroom , packs a suitcase, and leaves.
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I went into the bedroom first and saw all the drawers pulled out, the clothes strewn everywhere.
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She left the knife as it lay and went into her bedroom .
lead
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She opened the door, thinking it led to a bedroom .
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He led her out of the bedroom and on to the terrace where Victoria was waiting.
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Then he violently shoved her down the small flight of stairs that led off their bedroom to the bathroom.
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Meir Ahronson led me into his bedroom , sat down on the edge of the bed, and indicated a kitchen chair.
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And had scrubbed the stone floor and the steps leading to the bedrooms .
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Inside, they quietly ascended the huge curved staircase which led to their bedrooms on the upper floor.
open
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Then she opened the bedroom door and crept down through the dark, silent house.
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The President opened all the bedroom windows and ordered the pool heated.
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I opened a bedroom door, and could smell damp; there was a large patch on the wall.
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I went upstairs, and opened their bedroom door.
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It hadn't been his grandmother who had opened his bedroom door.
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Michael had opened the bedroom window and was half in and half out as the policemen burst into the room.
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She wanted to open the windows in the bedrooms , which she did not usually do, and opened their bedroom door.
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Matilda Jenkins opened the bedroom door and called the rest of the boys in.
share
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During Isabelle Russell's lifetime, she and her husband had shared the big front bedroom .
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Ruth found herself obliged to share a bedroom with Polly Beard.
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When I knew her, some years ago, their teenage daughter was having to share a bedroom with her granny.
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They all shared a big bedroom near the cheese room.
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It was rather a squash at my nana's house because mum, and I had to share a bedroom .
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This may mean two or three sharing a bedroom .
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It was to share a bedroom with a wife in similar circumstances.
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She's been a good little girl sharing her bedroom and all her precious bits and bobs with you.
walk
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I walked out of the bedroom and down the stairs.
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His eyes followed his teenage daughter as she walked around his bedroom , pocketing his belongings.
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She is believed to have discovered his body when she walked into his bedroom at around 7.30am as usual.
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Some men walking into a bedroom will suddenly smash a mirror if they mistake themselves for another man in the house.
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He then walked into a bedroom and shot himself in the chest.
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He left the table and walked to the bedroom .
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He had an absolute right to walk into her bedroom any time of day or night.
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Ashley walked over to the bedroom window.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
twin room/bedroom
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All of the twin rooms and most of the singles have an en-suite shower/WC.
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All the twin rooms are comfortable, and all overlook the attractive courtyard.
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Bedrooms have telephone and twin rooms have a balcony.
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Half board prices are based on twin rooms which can take two extra sofa beds.
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Prices are based on two people sharing a twin room with private facilities.
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Some twin bedrooms which will have a balcony and sea view are available at a supplement.
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Some twin rooms have a balcony.
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The twin bedrooms are airy, spacious and comfortably furnished.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a house with four bedrooms
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a few minutes she padded back into the bedroom wrapped in a big fluffy towel.
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Drugs squad officers in Wiltshire discovered another drug factory in the bedroom of a council house yesterday.
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Leaving the shower running, she unlocked the door, but there was no sign of Luke in the bedroom .
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She came to the spare bedroom , the one she had spent that first unforgettable night in, and slipped inside.