This happened because I had entered the room after she did and had simply fallen into the empty chair directly across from her.

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The TV was already blaring when I entered the room.

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At some point during that strange summer of hushed conversations that stopped as soon as I entered the room, the prospect was raised that I might like to stay at a horse farm in Cornwall, on England's southwest coast.

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If I could have caught him before he entered the room, I would have told him to take off his jacket, loosen his tie and roll up his shirtsleeves.

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When Mastro entered the plush conference room where I was waiting, he carried a towering stack of binders containing thousands of pages of Chevron briefs and affidavits.

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Every time I entered the hotel, I had to walk the length of the garden to my room.

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On one quest, I entered a party and all the party-goers kept looking at me while they were walking around the room -- or even into each other.

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