How To Use Foyer In A Sentence
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Its presence was announced not by sidewalk canopies and grand spotlit foyers but by a single brass wall-plaque.
COMPULSION
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The building is being converted into a sports centre, with six squash courts, a gymnasium, sauna, lounges and bar and a sports shop in the foyer.
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The main hall takes up most of the central span and the space under the east cantilever, while the one to the west projects out over the street to provide an entrance portico and foyer.
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On the day of the attack, a gang of youths had marched into the school's foyer at lunchtime.
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This time all three of the spaces at the Theatre Royal - the auditorium, the studio and the foyer - will be pressed into action.
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A gaggle of journalists sit in a hotel foyer waiting impatiently.
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So… after a few quiet sundowners and pleasant advertising industry banter in the foyer, we padded into the concert hall for the show.
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Minister of State Martin Cullen unveiled a wall plaque in the foyer of the new Employment Centre to mark its official opening.
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This is about as difficult as saying the word ‘car’ in a hotel foyer - the tour desk will arrange one pronto.
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During the conference several visiting and guest ministries set up tables throughout the foyer of the church to share their ministries with attendants of the conference.
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Drinks, ices and popcorn are all on sale in the foyer.
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Beneath the new foyer that links hail to street and school, the architect included some basement rooms for cloakrooms and storage.
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The foyer felt a little cramped with quite low ceilings in areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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More than 100 firefighters fought to control the blaze and, although they saved the entrance hall and foyers of the cinema, the auditorium and stage area were totally destroyed.
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They posed in hallways, foyers, in front of doors, in generally nondescript spaces.
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The downstairs foyer was sheathed in multicolored marble and adorned with lush palms in handmade marble pots; a closer inspection revealed that the palms could be lifted out holus-bolus in smaller, plastic pots.
TOO MANY MURDERS
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To the right of the entry, a preconcert foyer, the BP Hall, rises to lofty heights surrounded by Douglas fir walls eventuating in a skylight that reveals the steel armature holding up the stainless-steel facades.
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He goes into the audience and I go on stage behind the curtain that separates the band from the foyer.
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As he made his way into the small foyer, he could hear the noise from the taproom.
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For instance, the processional route of the ambulatory, along which the cross is carried into the church, also acts as a shortcut from the restaurant to the foyer of the auditorium, which is also the lobby for the guesthouse.
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I found myself looking across the foyer every few minutes and seeing another and another and yet another Canberran.
Even in a little thing
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The floor slab perimeters are suspended via steel hanging rods located in alternate curtain walling mullions with no columns at ground floor level to compromise the huge entrance foyer.
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The front door opens to a foyer and stair hall, with the dining room on the left and the living room on the right.
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At the apex, the belvedere foyer of the adaptable theatre circles its curve and allows views west down the water.
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Her cousin's voice penetrated the awkward silence, and of course, he didn't notice the tension in the foyer.
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Second, they built a larger foyer to provide an area to visit.
Christianity Today
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Access is from the entry foyer via transition stairs and ramped vestibules that also act as gallery spaces.
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A vivid persimmon-colored wall and a skylit art partition add drama to the foyer.
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We step out of the baking sun and into the soothing coolness of the temple, and pad into the main foyer in our bare feet.
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At the Gellert, Burnell paid off the cab and heaved Monty, now in a collapsible state, into the ornate foyer.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Al Jourgensen is seen wandering around the hotel foyer hugging a wooden duck, used to frighten off local wildlife.
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In addition to new floor finishes and lighting, it features a floating white wall that clads the boundary interfacing the public foyers and the theatres.
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Anne left Artie and walked down the corridor towards the foyer.
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I made some nice posters, and stood in the foyer of student buildings asking people to sign petitions for an equal age of consent.
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Finally, she heard the sound of voices in the grand foyer and scuttled over to the door of the antechamber.
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Clearly visible was the grand entrance foyer and marble staircase with piles of rubbish in the reading room.
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The foyer contains the airlocks, used by visitors and maintenance workers alike, as well as official dignitaries from the church.
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Sunlight streamed into the building illuminating the two escalators in the center of the large foyer.
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We had to create a bouquet for the leading lady and a display for the theatre foyer and another using a huge piece of driftwood.
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Robert is sauntering around in the foyer, waiting.
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And this wasn't some tiny bijou hotel foyer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not content with cooing and pooing from the rafters, a few of them decided to take up permanent residence in the foyer.
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On impulse, she turned into the foyer and bought a ticket.
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On the main floor is a narrow foyer, a pretty living area, and a small kitchen.
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A maid, hired to help with preparations for the party, passed through the foyer with an armload of linens.
Three Stages of Amazement
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It was described as an open concept building with a grand foyer and vaulted ceilings.
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Currently, the auditorium, offices and backstage areas are smoke-free zones, but smoking is allowed in the bar and some areas of the foyer.
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“Emma!” she called cheerfully as she swung into the foyer.
The Glory Game
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These were recorded in 1949, and are excellently performed, although, as far as the music goes, they belong next to the potted aspidistra in the front foyer.
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There is an art gallery in the foyer which hosts regular touring and locally produced exhibitions.
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On the first three Sundays, he asked worshipers to take a few moments to sit for a candid photo in the church foyer.
Christianity Today
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Standing impressively alone in the central gallery is the partially reconstructed foyer of the Strand Palace Hotel in London.
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Not too many people were in the hotel foyer, so they didn't cause too much of a scene.
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Principle features such as the entrance foyer, upper lobby and auditorium would be left unchanged.
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I bought my ticket at the desk in the public foyer - a wonderfully light and airy reception area.
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A gaggle of journalists sit in a hotel foyer waiting impatiently.
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Adrienne directs the question towards Greg's secretary as she breezes through the foyer.
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The grand entrance foyer and marble staircase were clearly visible as the front entrance of the building stood open.
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Inside the foyer, the lower walls were panelled in gaboon mahogany, with wallboard above.
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One afternoon, while working on the Sydney Opera House, I walked over with Joern Utzon to where the concreters were about to remove the formwork from the just-poured cantilever beams for the northern foyers.
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Like pieces of art in a little glass gallery, an array of spices is prominently displayed in a showcase that flanks the foyer, providing a savoury glimpse into the tastes that will find their way into your meal.
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Expensively tanned retirees brayed across the foyer of Perth's ice-rink to people they hadn't seen since before last year's Med cruise.
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Detectives swooped on the trio in the foyer of the hotel in a dramatic raid.
The Sun
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This Friday, the Queen Elizabeth Hall Front Room – otherwise known as the rather less chi-chi-sounding Foyer – over at the cultural hot box that is the Southbank Centre, will be offering you just such a refined rave-up.
Clubs picks of the week
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Her footsteps echoed loudly as she shuffled across the foyer, dimly lit by the beams of moonlight lancing across the shiny floor.
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The men had taken shelter in the foyer area on the third floor next to a dentist's surgery.
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Stained-glass panels atop each window spilt colors onto the polished pink marble of the foyer floor.
PAINT THE WIND
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Walk into a cafe, walk into the foyer of a theatre, walk into a hotel lobby, the most pervading smell is that of tobacco.
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Its foyer was deeply carpeted and bright with chintzy furniture and massive floral arrangements.
STAGE FRIGHT
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The public entrance penetrates the knuckle between the angled wing and the auditorium leading to a vestibule that gives access to the concert hall foyer and promenading space at ground level.
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We're at a 'sheepy party', greeted in the foyer by the cast dressed as shepherdesses or as sheep.
Times, Sunday Times
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AMP is also helping facilitate various employee events - from bucket collections in building foyers to a walkathon in Melbourne.
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It's three o'clock in the afternoon and I've been waiting an hour for her in the foyer of a London hotel.
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I wandered out of the foyer, just catching the start of the next interaction at the reception desk.
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It\'s an ALL BRICK corner lot home that\'s been meticulously maintained* The tour begins in the foyer where it opens into to the family, dining room and a formal living rooms that all offer loads of sunshine and great views out the french doors to the covered porch area leading to your large backyard that offers a natural area setting * The entire home boosts 10ft ceilings* Upgraded contemporary lighting* Plantation style blinds and the kitchen boosts cherry wood cabinets* upgraded matching GE STAINLESS STEEL APPLIANCES* a large center island, lots of storage & counter space* a double door pantry* and a nicely sized eat in kitchen area* You will also be thrilled when you see the OVER SIZED MASTER BATHROOM it offers his & her double vanities & walk in closets* a marble whirlpool tub plus the OVERSIZED MASTER BEDROOM with it\'s large sitting area & private access to your patio area too.
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Wendy went to the foyer where Sheriff Marten and Deputy Craine had set up their stake-out.
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The ceiling lights were old yellow incandescent bulbs, and the monastery's little foyer smelled of wax, incense, and unwashed feet.
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Things like a walk-in closet, a whirlpool bath, a fireplace, attractive landscaping or a grand foyer can separate your home from the crowd and stir interest for buyers.
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Cora's image was a pale reflection in the foyer mirror.
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Now she placed the photocopied letters in stamped, appropriately addressed envelopes on a table in the foyer of her apartment.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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Bordered designs were used throughout the remaining passageways with a Chlidema square for the entrance foyer inset in a marble surround.
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She led me through a foyer with Greek and Roman sculptures into a large library decorated with sets of antique books and out the back door to a swimming pool big enough to scrub down a herd of cattle and sentineled by topiary sculptures the size of radar dishes.
EVENING’S EMPIRE
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When the gallery is open, the door will hinge out into the foyer so that it offers another perspective on the building.
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A DJ stood inside the foyer of the hotel room, mixing songs 57 floors above Times Square.
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Mia stood in the foyer of the large house, hanging her coat, scarf and gloves on the coat rack.
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The foyer, mantels and windowsills become stages for her holiday creations.
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They live in a small flat off the foyer, with a blaring TV and something evil-smelling boiling on the stove.
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No sooner had we entered the foyer than we began to understand why they had brought us to this place.
A Channel of Peace
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The bell that will peal at the end of Sunday's ceremony was salvaged from the ship and usually sits in the foyer of Forum North.
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Jessica stopped in her tracks when she saw her family waiting in the hotel foyer for her.
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I passed quickly through the foyer, angled left through the large cathedral-ceilinged living room, entered the dining room.
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Ten minutes later he came galloping down the stairs to the foyer where they were already waiting.
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I shoved those thoughts out of my head as I ran down the center staircase that winds up from the foyer of the house.
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I felt so emboldened by my solitary lunch experience that I then went and sat in the foyer of the National theatre.
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The foyer and staircase are hung with Mondrian-inspired abstract paintings.
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Evening dresses lived in the foyer closet of all places and fishing tackle, liquor bottles, and fertilizers were stored in the garage closet.
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This would provide two new meeting rooms, new toilets, kitchens, a servery, storage areas, a reception foyer and small bar.
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It's the same as stepping into a foyer of a building and feeling the gust of air-conditioning when you open the door.
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Normally, any ordinary citizen subject to dropped charges would receive a stony-faced apology and the opportunity to leave via the public foyer.
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He spotted the professor in the foyer of the building, about to head to his office.
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Al Jourgensen is seen wandering around the hotel foyer hugging a wooden duck, used to frighten off local wildlife.
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He stared at Laurie over his bifocals, his balding head gleaming in the afternoon sun coming through the bay window at the end of the foyer.
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Oh and the inside is completely antiqued except for Rob's room, my room and my dad's big screen TV smack in the middle of my mom's ‘foyer’.
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Our eyes met across the hotel foyer and there was more than a hint of recognition.
Times, Sunday Times
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He turned smartly on his heel and trotted into the foyer, greeting the stewards with indiscriminate effusion.
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Mud-encrusted mukluks and wet Wellingtons have left their dirty footprints in your foyer and down the cellar stairs.
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Members of the public can participate by depositing their used toner cartridges in the collection boxes in the front porch of the town hall, Penrith, and in the entrance foyer of Penrith Library.
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And this wasn't some tiny bijou hotel foyer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Practical Grammar and Composition
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The experience begins as soon as you set foot in the theatre foyer.
Times, Sunday Times
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By the way, I'm happy to announce to those lazy bastards who haven't bought seats, that if they go to the foyer or the shop next to the theater, we are putting out the official bootleg, which is me singing all the Spamalot demos, which will be out for a few weeks before the cast album is available.
Chicago Reader
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Holding court on a sofa in a busy London hotel foyer, Kiely banters away happily, using his gravelly laugh for punctuation.
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The foyers curve round the perimeter of the fan-like plan with genial and transparent openness.
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It was hard to believe that the man responsible for some of the theatre's most arresting stage moments, not to mention the baroque decoration of the foyer and the cool elegance of the posters and programmes, could be a quitter.
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After handing those over, and then a lot of hanging round in the foyer, we were given a declaration to sign and told that the procureur would get back to us in a few months with instructions on getting new ID cards and passports.
Becoming Belgian
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My sister-in-law Joan, who was also an usherette at the cinema, said she used to watch him painting in the foyer while at work.
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The Dunquin fair originated with just five local people selling their handcrafts in the foyer of the heritage centre.
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I was worrying about this in the foyer of a hotel in Paris while waiting for Justin to show up.
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At the French army's tricolour-splashed Foyer du Soldat, we see the resurrection of cooling lime plaster cremated under cement.
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The granite tile wasn't finished in parts of the kitchen and dining nook area, and the foyer.
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A feature of the theatre is that all the foyer areas and the auditorium are accessible to wheelchairs.
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A wheelchair access lift is installed at the front of the theatre from street level to foyer stalls level.
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Some one was coming along the corridor from the foyer.
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The small foyer boasts built-in cupboards that are stocked with all the essentials you might need for a straight-from-work weekend away.
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The Countess walked briskly through the candlelit foyer, taking a smart glimpse of herself in a mirrored sconce.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Usually a busy thoroughfare, at weekends the foyer was deserted but for a commissionaire and a receptionist.
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Both unglazed terracotta ware and highly glazed ware crafted there are on sale in the museum foyer and the adjacent conservatory.
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Normally, any ordinary citizen subject to dropped charges would receive a stony-faced apology and the opportunity to leave via the public foyer.
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In fact, he spends his days driving around, loitering in the foyers of office buildings, and often sleeping in his car at night.
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Within the foyer, a double-height, semi-circular void disperses soft light into the depths of the building.
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He sits in the theatre 's empty foyer with a cup of tea and a croissant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although the foyer is irregular and asymmetrical in response to site and route, the stage and 1500-seat auditorium are conventionally axial, with radial seating and an orthodox proscenium.
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All the same, busy foyer ceramics and florid room furnishings suggest a resort ripe for refurbishment.
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A ramped hallway containing a lending library and a tiny gift shop adjoins the school building to the temple, and opens into a foyer where the kiddush (a ceremonial blessing of wine and challah bread) and Shabbat Oneg (a Sabbath wine and cheese reception) are held after Friday night services.
American Grace
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Crossing the dark foyer, I stepped back outside onto the sidewalk.
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The panel heard yesterday how the two female officers made their way to the hotel foyer following an argument at the conference.
The Sun
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The front foyer is mustard yellow, and part of the adjoining kitchen is muted purple, and the diningroom/livingroom has a chairail where they painted the lower half lighter than the upperhalf, which I find very disorienting.
Is this the one?
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Auguste had lingered hopefully in the foyer hoping Araminta might appear.
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The entrance foyer of the Rand Club is dominated by huge simulated porphyry columns and a grand staircase leading to a colonnaded gallery.
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NOW: 'Drop zones' Once a must-have in the McMansion floor plan, double-story entrance foyers are now seen as a waste of space and energy-inefficient, homeowners and builders say.
Blueprint for a New American Home
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There's subdued lighting, quieter colours and the chefs are now in a kitchen, which is visible from the main foyer.
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Normally, any ordinary citizen subject to dropped charges would receive a stony-faced apology and the opportunity to leave via the public foyer.
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In the filled foyer, free Oyster Boy oysters were glugged, amuse bouches were bouched and goodies were raffled off in a silent auction to raise funds for the Fringe.
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I forgot to mention this on a corbel in the foyer.
Welcome to The Glad Hand Café.
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As soon as we entered the hotel foyer the manager smiled and came forward to help with my bags.
The Sun
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The Wimbledon champion walks through the foyer of a hotel that could hardly be more modest and bland if it tried.
Times, Sunday Times
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What was once an elegant foyer now served as a lobby, complete with bannistered staircase, sconced walls, and chandeliered ceiling.
Break No Bones
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He led me out of the room into the foyer of the house, where there was a flight of stairs.
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P 1 ease assemble in the Exhibition Hall foyer to await your guide.
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I'll meet you in the foyer at 7 o'clock.
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Normally, any ordinary citizen subject to dropped charges would receive a stony-faced apology and the opportunity to leave via the public foyer.
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Facilities will include a foyer area, catering, toilets, box office, reception and first aid.
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She told her audience that the Germans had technical know-how in matters such as organising complicated scene changes but, better still, they emphasised the conviviality, the excitement, of theatregoing with "spacious foyers . . . very unlike the cramped conditions in London theatres".
A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
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Isolated on a monticule by the river bank the chateau overlooked its brood of small pavilions, which in a way formed an _entresol_, or foyer, leading to the Pavilion Royal.
Royal Palaces and Parks of France
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Around 140 people are milling around in the foyer before being led into the conference room where lights, music, videos and an oleaginous Master of Ceremonies kick things off.
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I would like to put up some kind of doors to the rooms off the foyer, because I would like to emphasize the sense that the foyer is the most public room of our private residence, and the place for people to get the impression that this is a someone's little kingdom they are entering and not the local hangout.
Learning From Victorian Families
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The lobby is an exact replica of the old hotel foyer, with mosaics on the floor, vast ceiling plaster doughnuts and a sweeping spiral staircase.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yesterday morning a number of Royal Exchange security staff could be seen taking photographs and making measurements in the foyer of the building.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jay appeared by my side and pulled me into the foyer of the huge house, he led me to a kitchen and handed me a beer.
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Visitors were barred from taking bags into the building, metal detectors were installed and police carrying machine guns patrolled the foyer.
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When it opened in 1904 the theatre's foyer was hung with portraits by John Butler Yeats and since that time the collection has grown to over sixty works by several renowned artists.
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She moved toward from the foyer to the study, pointing out the tinsel that lined the banister of the staircase and bannered the arched walkways, ‘Don't you like the decorations?
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He reached for Freddy, and with what seemed no more than a flick of his wrist pitched him across the foyer.
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And, in case you need to know “foyer” is pronounced “foy-ay” not “foy-er”.
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Two floors of open galleries rise above the foyer, magically transforming the musicians carrying instruments between classes, into walk-on extras in a theatre production.
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She was seated in the foyer, and when she was not fixing appointments, was busy filing her nails.
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His skin was sallow and shiny from the feverish sweat that drenched him as it had before in the foyer, but how long had he been like this, sitting here without aid?
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A cleaning woman was laboriously washing the marble floor of the foyer.
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He added that the change would also allow better use to be made of the foyer area.
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I've never been a good first-nighter, I never enjoy hobnobbing in foyers.
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I eased out of the foyer, leaving her with the cydroid Forsters, as I caught sight of Dierk in the small library off the entry hall.
Flash
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The foyer was lit by a gentle glow from the office on the one end, and the atrium to the right, and I could hear hushed voices from both rooms.
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These include banning sportswear and tatty jeans, more bouncers, an orderly queuing system, better foyer lighting, a strict ID policy and training bar staff to refuse to serve drunks and eject rowdy customers.
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What I question is Zeffirelli's decision to set the action in what looks like a mix of Art Deco hotel lobby and theatre foyer, with a fake audience on stage and characters making upstage entrances through a false arch.
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She walked through her kitchen and down the hall to the foyer, which was complete with white marble flooring and a crystal chandelier.
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A feature of the theatre is that all the foyer areas and the auditorium are accessible to wheelchairs.
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We were kept waiting for 30 minutes or so until armed guards and other aides suddenly rushed into the foyer and hustled us out the door into a courtyard.
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The Countess walked briskly through the candlelit foyer, taking a smart glimpse of herself in a mirrored sconce.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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He's so arrogant, so cocksure… he eyed me up in the foyer as if I was just a slab of meat.
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A splendid twelve-foot tree, heavily adorned with electric lights, filled the solarium and radiated through the Palladian window at the top of the foyer stairs.
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And part of the ￡50,000 deal includes advertising household products like the washing powder and Flora margarine in the foyer.
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They won't care if we sleep in their foyer, they look like the type of place to have soft cushy couches.
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Bar, foyer and backstage are all much improved but the red-plush auditorium retains its intimate charm.
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Thinking about the danciest foyer I've ever clicked my heels in reminds me of other family gatherings, where the grownups would sit around the table, playing cards and gambling for coin.
As long as old men sit and talk about the weather.
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The third strategy (mixed mode) combines natural and artificial ventilation in transition spaces such as lobbies, foyers and the courtyard.
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Normally, any ordinary citizen subject to dropped charges would receive a stony-faced apology and the opportunity to leave via the public foyer.
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Both unglazed terracotta ware and highly glazed ware crafted there are on sale in the museum foyer and the adjacent conservatory.
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Inside, hundreds more jammed the marbled foyer, busting for a pee or gagging for a drink but determined to be first up the stairs to the galleries.
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Jessica Antola The foyer is accented by one of Mr. Adler's bright orange lacquer console tables.
Jonathan Adler's Whimsical Duplex
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At ground level, a bistro and book shop have been elbowed aside to create a senselessly spacious foyer, floored in black basalt.
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When they returned to the foyer there had been a bit of a to-do with Oliver.
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P 1 ease assemble in the Exhibition Hall foyer to await your guide.
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On the west side, a trio of exhibition foyers connects with a 350 seat conference hall.
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The foyer is thronging with delegates.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her turn-of-the-century tenement foyer is the kitchen/bathtub/pantry area, revealing the cutting-edge and old-school tricks of her trade -- a sleek water ionizer, antioxidant-rich goji berries and whey protein.
Tess Ghilaga: Go Upside Down, Not Under The Knife
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She came into the foyer, her arms crossed, ready to bring the boiling situation back down to a small simmer.
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Her expression preoccupied as she pushed open the door and encountered the welcome warmth of the hotel foyer, Sophie didn’t immediately see Dominic, sitting in acosy alcove nearby drinking coffee and reading a newspaper.
Mistress On Demand
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To continue our example with cream woodwork, the foyer and halls might be painted a pearl gray, light tan, soft gold, or deeper cream.
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Graham paid the taxi driver, who had helped to carry the suitcases into the foyer, then crossed to the reception desk to check in.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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The foyer of County Hall was choc-a-bloc with paintings, pottery, mosaics, decorated glasswork, knitwear and many, many other examples of what can be achieved with the proper guidance.
