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