How To Use Front room In A Sentence
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As soon as the door closed behind her I hurried to the dirty window in the front room and I watched as she walked down the street looking remarkably out of place in the drab surroundings in her bright green dress.
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The front room was tipped upside down.
The Sun
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I peered into the goggled face and realised it was Guy, our photographer, who had been with me in Marina's front room for the last hour.
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When I walked into the front room Cynthia was standing in the venter with her back to me.
ICED
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Has the world's most pugnacious advocate for the world's poor, a man who almost single-handedly brought the appalling images of famine-struck Africa into the front rooms of millions of Britons, finally gone too far?
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Her predecessor had apparently turned her office into a cosy front room, complete with a fireplace.
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Yesterday I did a major tidy of the back room, and I mentioned that I intended doing the same for the front room.
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They all met up for a huge knees-up at her Fulford home, where Carol's band played in the front room.
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Just then 15 people came galloping from the front room and out the door.
The Knight And The Seismo-Dragon
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In the second-story front room at Mrs. McKee's, the barytone slept heavily, and made divers unvocal sounds.
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Hanging over the steep corner of River and Pulaski, it was a tiny, white, shuttered and awninged Cape that gave up to Lyszko & Son Vegetables and Fruits what most people would have used as their front room.
Hoopi Shoopi Donna
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The basement's big, unused front room must be finished in durable burlaps and grass matting for Uncle Chester; there must be a bath upstairs; two rooms for Aunt May and the girls, one for Grandma, one for Julia and little Anna.
The Story of Julia Page
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In school corridors and front rooms up and down the country tears of joy and despair were shed this morning.
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No one has the money Pato's parents need and so they decide the logical solution is to set up their churro making equipment in the front room.
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I'm sick of being a parkie and my mates have got wise and don't let me into their front rooms any more.
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He fell asleep in the front room so I covered him up with a duvet.
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Alice said a quick hello and tried to hurry into the front room, but Duvall called her back.
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The front room was used mainly for entertaining visitors.
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DO you find yourself nodding off in the front room or spending your spare time in the shed?
The Sun
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One improvement is its over all look: the re-upholstered seats, new tables, carpets in the front room and the clean and fresh feel of the place.
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The fire started in the front room and quickly engulfed it charring the ceiling, stairwell and door-frames before spreading to the hallway.
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The portraits and sumptuous ornaments, and the gold clock, show that this is not just any old front room.
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It was cold there, damn cold, with a wind blowing straight off Dartmoor into our front room.
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When she wouldn't stop somersaulting and cartwheeling in the front room we decided to take her dancing.
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The flat was on the first floor of a tenement block, and had a lovely front room.
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By day three we weren't speaking, after a full and frank discussion over a late-night drink revealed seething resentments that had been dormant for years (apparently I'd once hurt her feelings by questioning her choice of new carpet in her front room - well who on earth has shagpile these days?).
Undefined
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The old man lit a fire in the stove of the front room.
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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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The TV in his front room is playing a reality cop show, and an arrest is underway.
Times, Sunday Times
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The TV in his front room is playing a reality cop show, and an arrest is underway.
Times, Sunday Times
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He got his telescope and set it up and he watched Juliet argue with her parents in the front room.
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And in her front room every inch of wall space was plastered with album covers, clocks, pictures, newspaper cuttings and a large Ziggy Stardust mirror.
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When the daughter walked into the front room she saw her mother lying on the floor, unconscious and gasping for air.
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The front room is full of cocktail drinkers, the next full of whisky-bibbing geezers, a third full of students watching television, while in the back room two interchangeable blondes played pool.
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An electrical fault was believed to have triggered the fire, which raged through an upstairs bedroom, causing the floor to collapse into the front room.
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An open fire was burning in the front room.
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You are invariably greeted with a whopping great shrine in the front room, decorated to the max, with a door leading to the kitchen and family quarters behind.
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He was subletting the basement to a friend of mine, who had the front room.
Times, Sunday Times
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The front room could be a den, a study or a shop window.
Times, Sunday Times
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After they've stowed away about eleventeen courses, from grapefruit and sherry to demitasse and benedictine, them that can leave the table without wheel chairs wanders out into the front rooms, and the men light up fresh perfectos and hunt for the smokin 'den, and the women get together in bunches and exchange polite knocks.
Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe
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At last our front room has stopped looking like a furniture showroom.
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In the evenings he read The Toledo Blade and the Grand Rapids paper by the lamp in the front room or went out spearing fish in the bay with a jacklight with D. J. Smith.
The Short Stories
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Jimmy sugar soaped the ceiling and walls in the front room and undercoated the window frame.
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When I woke the next morning and went downstairs, I found a decorated Christmas tree in the front room, and underneath it, a pair of lace up boots, a red fire engine, and a sack of candy.
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The seafront rooms hear a constant wash of incoming waves, but for most people this becomes a sleeping pill in the end.
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One day Ramonti, the violinist, engaged the front room above.
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This album starts with four track recordings made in his front room, before drifting through punky political reggae and dub to techno and trip hop.
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It is caravan owners who are taking caravanning to a new level of luxury and souping up their vehicles to compete with the most gadget-filled front room.
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Eventually, when I stepped into the second room, I realised that four table-top game stations were pumping incessant shots into the front room, where they became disembodied echoes.
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Whether it is the drawing room of a grand mansion or the front room of a humble semi-detached, the fire and its heat will draw attention.
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Windows across the top of the front room flood the place with light, and the open space and asymmetrical shape of the front room offer good sightlines for his DIY-chic décor.
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There was no answer from the house and the front room appeared to be piled with rubbish.
Times, Sunday Times
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And in her front room every inch of wall space was plastered with album covers, clocks, pictures, newspaper cuttings and a large Ziggy Stardust mirror.
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The front room into which the spry old woman ushered Helena was filled with the memorabilia of a lifetime.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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And they didn't want the bright front room off the hall to become a neglected space that the family bypassed on the way to a rear kitchen.
Times, Sunday Times
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He finds Georges sprawled across a chair in the front room, flipping through an indelicate magazine.
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While redecorating the front room he discovered the names of previous occupants underneath the wallpaper and etched on to the plaster.
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There are at least eight pictures of him in the front room of the family home.
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Only members of the older generation would now draw the curtains in their front room if a neighbour or relative had died.
Why am I Afraid to Grieve
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When the woman arrived she found he had put a mattress in the front room.
The Sun
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With brief suspiration he reassumed the candle, reascended the stairs, reapproached the door of the front room, hallfloor, and reentered.
Ulysses
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The front rooms and chic restaurant offer fine views of the cathedral.
Times, Sunday Times
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Brad took a seat in one of the arm chairs in the front room and observed the house and noticed the glass and vases being stuck together and large amounts of air fresheners around the house.
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Only members of the older generation would now draw the curtains in their front room if a neighbour or relative had died.
Why am I Afraid to Grieve
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The old Doctor's sleeping apartment, which was the front room on the ground floor, we have converted into a parlor; and, by the aid of cheerful paint and paper, a gladsome carpet, pictures and engravings, new furniture, _bijouterie_, and a daily supply of flowers, it has become one of the prettiest and pleasantest rooms in the whole world.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
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Adding to the higgledy-piggledy feel of the pub is the situation of the bar, the main part is in one of the front rooms, with a serving hatch tucked under the stairs in the middle of the pub to serve the other rooms.
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After the meal, they had sat in the front room and the conversation had ranged over a wide variety of topics.
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So I was marched to a family friend who ran a hair salon from her front room.
The Sun
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In contrast Mr. Hargreaves' general stores was in a tiny cottage - again the front room had been adapted.
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Her front room was kept immaculate.
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The front room could be a den, a study or a shop window.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the old ranch house where Mama grew up the radio sat in the front room near the fireplace.
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I like to start with our bedroom, not necessary the front room, because the bedroom is my favorite room in the house.
Happiness and The Domestic Scene
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A horrible orange blanket in my front room; drinking bourbon with my great-aunt Mary in St Louis.
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We had a paraffin lamp, and in the front room we had gas with a mantle.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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It is caravan owners who are taking caravanning to a new level of luxury and souping up their vehicles to compete with the most gadget-filled front room.
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As a payment he got my old gas fire, for which my front room is not adequately ventilated.
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We had a paraffin lamp, and in the front room we had gas with a mantle.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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It's like monitoring your front room or the frontal lobes of your brain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether you are throwing a grand soirée or a small knees-up in your front room, there is nothing worse than being at a party lit like a police station.
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The front room was strewn with books and clothes.
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The portraits and sumptuous ornaments, and the gold clock, show that this is not just any old front room.
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A burning car exploded and shattered the front room window of a house in Rawcliffe Avenue, Breightmet, after being set alight early today.
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A horrible orange blanket in my front room; drinking bourbon with my great-aunt Mary in St Louis.
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The last thing the shop will want is some woman having a long, loud, massive meltdown in their front room.
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The front room was strewn with books and clothes.
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We all slept in the front room with the fireplace.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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In the small front room the Goddamn Parrot harangued himself in his sleep, his language fit to pinken the cheeks of amazons.
Angry Lead Skies
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After breakfast, she sat in the front room where equatorial sun slanted in brightest through lacquered lattices to read every last thing she could scrounge from the one biblioteca that sold English print.
BRASIL AS A GIRL
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Inside, he found Dr Stimpson in the front room with Mary Nolan, packing away his ophthalmoscope after finishing his examination.
GRACE
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The views from the front rooms are unbelievable, right across the lake.
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So I had my doubts about my mother throwing a charity gala kalooki night in my honor but nominally in support of the state of Israel in our front room.
Kalooki Nights
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A punch bag and mitts, to use in your front room.
The Sun
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But he still did nowt until a Crown Derby plate, which had been a wedding present to their late Mum and Dad, vibrated off its hook in the front room and smashed into a thousand pieces.
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Her predecessor had apparently turned her office into a cosy front room, complete with a fireplace.
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The front room into which the spry old woman ushered Helena was filled with the memorabilia of a lifetime.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Her mum looked on with pride and relief as she took her first faltering steps in their front room and started to cruise the furniture.
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Granny would draw the curtains lest the neighbours should spot us playing rummy in her front room.
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A horrible orange blanket in my front room; drinking bourbon with my great-aunt Mary in St Louis.
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We had a paraffin lamp, and in the front room we had gas with a mantle.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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After the meal, they had sat in the front room and the conversation had ranged over a wide variety of topics.
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The fire started in the front room and quickly engulfed it charring the ceiling, stairwell and door-frames before spreading to the hallway.
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Just got in and there's a hench spider in my front room and no-one's here to get rid of it for me!
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In the third-story front room of the house of the shrine dwelt a Scotch artist named MacGuilp, who was a grand amateur of these pipes, and who declared that no sound in the world was so sweet to his ear as the bagpipes: they recalled the heather, haggis, and the Lothians, and the mountain dew, ye ken, and all those sorts of things.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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When she wouldn't stop somersaulting and cartwheeling in the front room we decided to take her dancing.
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I can only guess that this baby we have here will ask of me many similar things in the coming years: tonight, while jogging from the dining room to the living room to the front room through the little bedroom and into the dining room again to soothe some fussiness (the baby's, not mine) I made up some new, Theodore-centric lyrics for "Children of the Heavenly Father.
Goodnight, France
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He fell asleep in the front room so I covered him up with a duvet.
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Both he and the lascar stoutly swore that no one else had been in the front room during the afternoon.
Sole Music
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If you throw in primacy of EU law, the EU Defence Force, The Foreign Minister (whatever he or she gets called) and the permanent presidency, it becomes like the elephant in the front room: if it looks like a superstate, if it sounds like a superstate and if it smells like a superstate, then it is a superstate.
Archive 2007-06-17
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The ‘best’ front room - complete with piano, three-piece suite, china cabinet and chest of drawers - was off-limits except at Christmas and during visits.
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My pal's front room was packed, the audience egging me on so to speak, as I downed the first few in quick succession.
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We had a paraffin lamp, and in the front room we had gas with a mantle.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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He fell asleep in the front room so I covered him up with a duvet.
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There was no answer from the house and the front room appeared to be piled with rubbish.
Times, Sunday Times
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There we were, loafing in his front room on a rainy afternoon, parents out at work in the days where you could trust your kids not to burn the house down while you're out for the day.
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She slid into some strappy sandals and walked out into the front room.
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On one occasion parents had temporarily rented an unfurnished flat in the catchment area and had decorated only the front room in a bid to convince a visiting education officer the property was occupied.
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You enter straight into the large open-plan front room, from which the kitchen branches off and stairs lead up.
Times, Sunday Times
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We've cleaned the car thoroughly so it's ready for the wedding, and we've made some progress in the front room.
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She walked into a medium sized front room, decorated in an understated elegance.
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A punch bag and mitts, to use in your front room.
The Sun
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Whether it is the drawing room of a grand mansion or the front room of a humble semi-detached, the fire and its heat will draw attention.
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It was "clapboarded" and two stories in height, the upper floor being used by Sol Jerrems, the storekeeper, as a residence, except for two little front rooms which he rented, one to Miss Huckins, the dressmaker and milliner, who slept and ate in her shop, and the other to Mr. Cragg.
Mary Louise in the Country
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With brief suspiration he reassumed the candle, reascended the stairs, reapproached the door of the front room, hallfloor, and reentered.
Ulysses
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Two hours later the kids were zonked out and Tanya and I were talking on the couches in the front room.
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Sitting in his sunny front room silhouetted in the bay window, white t-shirt, tartan shorts and sports socks, he is sartorially the polar opposite of the traditional bow-tie and tails combo.
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The end terrace house was badly damaged in the blaze which started when a gas fire set light to a sofa in the front room.
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In fact, sleeping is relegated to a front room and the loft, and the bigger bunkroom space is used as an alternate living room.
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There was a peripatetic practitioner who came on Thursdays to the front room of a house near the Vicarage.
GOODBYE CURATE