Doctor Sandford’s House Vocabulary

Comfortable(adjective)

1. "Did you have a good flight?" "Yes, very comfortable thank you." 2. All the comfortable rooms sleep two and are of a high standard with private shower and W.C; most have a balcony. 3. Economy hotels offer clean, comfortable rooms and front desk services without costly extras like restaurants and room service. 4. Older or better-heeled visitors have a choice of comfortable hotels, where rooms go for about $ 50 per night. 5. The Lido Palace facilities include comfortable lounges, a breakfast room, a spacious dining-room and a well-stocked bar. 6. There are two comfortable lounges with open fires, one with a large collection of books for guests to read. 7. They saw a warm, comfortable room with a good fire burning in the fireplace and a few papers on the big table. 8. This is a well-equipped and comfortable hotel, offering good value for money. 9. We visited one day in her comfortable room at the Research Center. 10. Can you wait for a moment while I change into something more comfortable?

Two-storeyed / two storey(adjective)

1.The Pineta is a two storey building and all the bedrooms are served by a lift. 2. It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement. 3. The authority insists that the two storey buildings are structurally sound and safe. 4. The five storey building features a circular atrium topped by a stained glass dome. 5. The two storey building has space for 300 of the college's students. 6. A two storey building and some caravans were severely damaged. 7. Mrs. Burden who lived at number 70, another two storey house was quite a character. 8. In a large fenced-off security zone, drums pile up to the level of a two storey house. 9. Detectives launched an enquiry after the body of Michael Chatfield was found as firemen fought a blaze in a three storey house. 10. Dockbuild Limited also wants to build a three storey office development on the site.

Cottage (noun)

1. A few secluded cottages are located along the narrow winding road. 2. Snow White came upon a small cottage in the mountains. 3. A hundred yards out, he looked back at the small yellow cottage on the slope above the lake. 4. Sammy lived in a small cottage on the bank of the Berkeley to Gloucester canal. 5. We walk on through two small clusters of cottages, the East End and the West End. 6. He was a hardworking, frugal and thrifty man who was saving to buy a small cottage from his employer. 7. She lives in a charming cottage deep in the Kent countryside. 8. Beatrice was pleased and invited Guillaume to her cottage for tea. 9. Earl grabbed the girl, looked right then left down the row of shuttered summer cottages, and shoved the girl inside. 10. He also asserted that the day of the cottage industry was over.

Lawn (noun)

1. Palms loomed over cypresses and poinsettias, and brown men in straw hats trimmed the miles of green lawns. 2. Through the hydraulic doors, I could see the lush green lawn that stretched languidly across an immense parking lot. 3. Summertime Peter glided easily to a gentle landing on the lush green lawn outside the ranch house. 4. He wanted to find himself standing, without having moved, in the fresh air on the green lawn outside. 5. And the northernmost town has several sprawling communities dotted with golf courses and street after street of lush, green lawns. 6. Of the species whose vegetative propagation is rapid, the small plants forming a green lawn over the bottom prove most useful. 7. Families, houses, and green lawns that had to be mowed in summer and raked in the fall. 8. This delightful eating and drinking establishment serves wonderful meals outside on a back deck surrounded lush green lawns and towering trees. 9. Breaking up the concrete driveway came next to make way for lawns, borders and a pond.

Orchard (noun)

1. Do you know car loads of people have driven by the orchards this year? 2. Her black bicycle is leaning against the orchard fence. 3. I circled the house at a distance, passed through the orchard into the garden and stood amid the rows of broccoli. 4. It is also fruit-growing country and the vineyards are interspersed with orchards of apple, plum and pear. 5. It was near the peach orchard that the Confederates suffered one of their Worst blows. 6. It was suddenly quiet in the orchard as the mist floated through the trees. 7. Léonie went to the orchard to pick some vine leaves. 8. Its hedged fields are sprinkled with oak trees, and apple orchards and half-timbered houses abound. 9. We rode until we passed an overgrown meadow which must once have been part of an apple orchard.

The ground floor (noun)

1. Accommodation for residents is on the ground floor or well-serviced by lifts. 2. Get in on the ground floor. 3. In the same week, they also got into his ground floor flat twice and stole his cheque book and card. 4. She guided him back to the lift, down to the ground floor and the street and into a taxi. 5. Suppose you lived at the top of the building, and your parents stayed on the ground floor. 6. The bookshop was on the ground floor, and the gallery in the basement. 7. Under the vaulted ground floor was a guardroom and small prison.

Kitchen (noun)

1. Jay's in the kitchen washing the dishes. 2. The production of crack can easily be carried out in a domestic kitchen. 3. To regain her composure, she opened the wine bottle in the kitchen and took a sip. 4. Back in the cottage she found everyone in the kitchen. 5. Many also worked in libraries or dormitory kitchens, or mowed lawns. 6. What had happened in the kitchen was a calculated wooing, tease, flirtation, safely outrageous. 7. Mrs Cooper took no pleasure in the rightness of her prediction, the accuracy of the bereaved cockroaches in her kitchen. 8. The tiles which she painted possessed great potential in kitchen design, he had informed her. 9. Originally from Vienna, she had been employed briefly in the kitchen. 10. When she went back to the kitchen Penry's tray stood on the counter, the plates satisfactorily empty.

Pantry (noun)

1. A maid peeks out of the pantry into the hall. 2. After the first week they should have grown used to the idea that on some evenings the pantry will be bare. 3. And the dining-room and the bedrooms and the kitchens and all the pantries and the pictures and silver and glass and carpets. 4. I've seen it on the pantry shelf, Mrs Salt. 5. It was the only edible thing in the pantry. 6. That night, the pantry and supply closet were overrun with rats. 7. The dishwasher was filled with plastic containers from Boston Market, but still the pantry was empty. 8. You could walk in and through a tiny pantry to the backyard and to four one-room rentals. 9. He stood in the pantry and she handed things in to him. 10. Go on! The dish is in the pantry.

Dining-room(noun)

1.Access to the dining room in the north-east corner of the main block was then made via a short flight of stairs. 2. He looked over the women in the ship's dining room, just checking, a few glanced his way. 3. In their newly decorated dining room, alive with rich, warm reds, the grand repast consisted of three meager chops. 4. Inside, there is a lounge, dining room and a barbecue. 5. The traditionally built dining room offers a superb standard of cuisine and an a la carte menu.

Living-room / lounge (noun)

1. But at least these were songs that you could sing outside your living room. 2. Dutifully he searched first the bedroom, then the living room. 3. Evelyn uncrossed her legs, got up slowly, began to walk to the living room door. 4. In the living room Bruce said he asked about any old china she might have had. 5. The children perished in a fast-moving blaze that started minutes after midnight in the living room of their rowhouse. 6. We all settled around the television set in the living room. 7. Willie would return from school to find the living room filled with the musky perfume of freshly-cut branches burning in the range. 8. Breakfast is taken on a pleasant terrace, or in a large room which doubles as a comfortable lounge during the evenings. 9. There are two comfortable lounges with open fires, one with a large collection of books for guests to read. 10. She led them down a narrow corridor and into a comfortable lounge.

Cosy (adjective)

1. The fire had been lit and the room looked bright and cosy. 2. It wasn't as cosy as Mrs Burbanks' guest house or even as Highbury. 3. Most people like some form of bedside lighting - either for reading in bed or simply to create a cosy atmosphere. 4. Sexy underwear's got nothing on thermal britches and vests when it comes to keeping you cosy in the depths of winter. 5. The bar is warm and cosy, with an open fire and oak beams. 6. The flickering lamp above their heads and the patches of colour round the walls gave the room a cosy lived-in air. 7. They all liked the cosy life. 8. In the warm and cosy sitting-room Fred Bradley put down the evening paper and stared moodily into the bright fire. 9. Our homes are warm and cosy on even the coldest day, and well ventilated during the summer months. 10. The fire in the compact range was burning slowly, and the room was warm and cosy.

Sitting-room (noun)

1. Feeley paced, chain-smoked, made phone calls from the Lincoln sitting room. 2. His parents were in the sitting room. 3. I knew it was a mistake to help my silly wee sister paste pictures into her scrapbook in the sitting room. 4. In the sitting room, Ted Johnson was trying to give the old man something squirreled away in his satchel. 5. John caught Sarah's arm and hustled her into the sitting room while Emily hurried down the stairs to join them. 6. No one in the hall except the grandfather clock I'd seen floating in my dream; no one came out of the sitting room. 7. The door to the sitting room was ajar, and a wedge of light shone out across the stairs. 8. There was nothing, not even that hotel sitting room, to compare.

Bedroom (noun)

1. They've just bought a new four-bedroomed house in Edinburgh. 2. After a few minutes she padded back into the bedroom wrapped in a big fluffy towel. 3. Drugs squad officers in Wiltshire discovered another drug factory in the bedroom of a council house yesterday. 4. The large bedrooms all have private bathroom, telephone, and are nicely decorated. 5. Ellie, who had the only key, arrived first and, turned up the gas heater in the large bright bedroom. 6. The larger bedroom was at the end of the passage, so that the bathroom was between the two sleeping rooms. 7. The large bedrooms all have a private bathroom and several will take a third or fourth bed. 8. Alternatively, you could partition off part of a large bedroom to create a small en suite bathroom or shower room. 9. Home, for Mr Kronweiser, was a large bedroom in a working-class house to the north of the town. 10. She made her way purposefully upstairs to the large bedroom at the front of the house.

Nursery (noun)

1. In the nursery she could do what she wanted when she wanted. 2. It was a room that might, in time, become a nursery. 3. Such families would therefore have no legitimate claim to nursery provisions and other facilities. 4. There was the nursery, the school-room, and the drawing-room: there were three lots. 5. They need constant attention, constant vigilance, like a nursery of children. 6. This keeps him happy until it is time to go to the nursery by which time she has cleared up the mess. 7. It is a often a nursery for fish species that normally live in the separate worlds of freshwater rivers or the sea. 8. This created a natural nursery for every kind of indigenous wildflower, shrub, and tree. 9. There is a day nursery for toddlers and the Pirates Club for children from four to eleven years.

Bathroom(noun)

1. "Can I use your bathroom?" "Sure, go ahead." 2. Excuse me, where's the bathroom? 3. The bathroom is next to Jack's room. 4. And I can take it into the bathroom to read. 5. Cyril emerged from the bathroom, holding out a pack of Kools. 6. During the night I wake to dash the two yards from bunk to bathroom. 7. He found the first corroboration of his suspicions in the small white-tiled bathroom beyond the bedroom. 8. If I suddenly swanned out of the bathroom in satin, Nick would have a fit. 9. The door facing the entrance turned out to be a bathroom. 10. The trailers do not have sewer connections and residents are supposed to use resort or park bathrooms. 11. Mommy, Mommy, I gotta go to the bathroom.

Furniture (noun)

1. I helped him choose the furniture for his house. 2. I can't think of a single piece of furniture in my house that I bought new. 3. The master bedroom is filled with antique furniture. 4. Carpets, building products, furniture and other durable goods all began to see downshifting during the fourth quarter. 5. Garden furniture had been neatly stacked under the colonnade. 6. He set up as a freelance industrial designer making furniture from a basement studio in 1952. 7. His most famous commission was to supply all the furniture and furnishings for the house constructed for Napoleon on St Helena. 8. Later another partially ignited device was found in a second furniture shop but caused only minor damage. 9. The flood took furniture and coins and valuables in one room, and left everything that was in another intact. 10. The scheme provides second-hand furniture to the needy.

Modern (adjective)

1. Doherty is a professor of modern European history. 2. Drugs have become the plague of the modern world. 3. He'll receive the most modern medical treatment. 4. I don't like modern architecture at all. 5. I like both modern dance and classical ballet. 6. Many criticisms have been made of modern farming methods. 7. Seattle has a very modern public transportation system. 8. The company occupies a bright, modern office building in the heart of the city. 9. The most compelling work in the modern British theater is being created in the smaller and non-profit theaters. 10. The prince is known for his critical views of modern architecture. 11. The pyramids are a remarkable piece of engineering, even judged by modern standards.

Own (adjective)

1. Bring your own equipment. 2. Every dance has its own rhythm. 3. The yacht was intended for the king's own personal use. 4. His face was only a few inches from her own. 5. We have problems of our own. 6. I'd like to have a place of my own. 7. One day I want to have a horse of my very own. 8. She just wanted a place to call her own. 9. She makes a lot of her own clothes. 10. We encourage students to develop their own ideas. 11. It's your own fault for leaving the window open. 12. I've been living on my own for four years now.

Date: 2015-12-17; view: 1021