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  • "No," said he, "I was in the box-room at the time, and my wife brought it up to me."

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • When I was a young - ster I have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard. '

    Sole Music 2010

  • While not all bentos use up all available space, the clever use of available box-room and tasteful arrangement is an important part to me.

    Breakfast bento breadrolls « Were rabbits 2007

  • The installation, Decode 1, is a box-room plunked askew toward the back of the large gallery, inviting the viewer past the framed drawings on either side of the space.

    Buzzine » Byoung 2009

  • At that moment, beyond the box-room, the Settle tea had reached its second stage; surfeited with crumpets, five or six each, they were starting on the éclairs and cream-slices.

    The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

  • In her tiny attic box-room, Emily had crawled beneath the gables and rubbed a clean spot on the sooty glass with her sleeve.

    Once An Angel Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- 1993

  • So, I thought, next time there's a moon, I'll creep along to that old box-room and see if the signaller is at work again.

    Five Go To Smugglers Top Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1983

  • 'I couldn't sleep, and I went along to that funny little box-room place, and ferreted about for an old book I thought I'd seen there.

    Five Go To Smugglers Top Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1983

  • Then the empty night-case was pat with the pile outside in the corridor, waiting to be taken to the box-room.

    The Second Form at Malory Towers Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1970

  • Kathleen managed to wake very early, and creep up to the box-room to take him for a run in the little wood-yard.

    The Twins At St Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967

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