Example sentences of "door [coord] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time , as she held open the door and saw him into the car , she was unable to refrain from privately comparing his physical likeness to that of her own father . |
| 2 | ‘ He even remembered to open the lav door and close it with a bang , like he always did ’ . |
| 3 | Rory was late for their appointment , and when he arrived , Holdfast told him dourly to close the door and join him at the biggest table . |
| 4 | She invited him in , pulled at her hair , relocked the door and followed him into the living room . |
| 5 | They fell over each other to get to the door and tangled themselves into a knot of struggling limbs trying to get out of it . |
| 6 | Like tying a bottle on the door and sticking it on the window and knock the door and they had to come , crash the bottle would go . |
| 7 | He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 8 | And Meg told the watching millions that her mum hammered on his door and woke him from a nap during a break in filming . |
| 9 | Marie Wassilieff relates that she seized the gun , forced Modigliani out of the door and rolled him down the stairs . |
| 10 | Sometimes he 's so determined he 's not going to go that we have to forcibly put him out of the door and get him into the car and get him there somehow . |
| 11 | Well then close the door and keep her in the kitchen . |
| 12 | Now imagine that instead of sitting behind his desk your boss had met you at the door and ushered you to a seat , then pulled up a chair next to you . |
| 13 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 14 | I felt rather like a man who has knocked on a cottage door and found himself in a palace ; vaguely foolish . |
| 15 | She scuttled through the door and found herself in a long drawing-room choked with old-fashioned furniture . |
| 16 | But instead of peace and solitude and a chance to get her emotions under control , she opened the door and found herself in the middle of a nightmare . |
| 17 | He made a dash for the big front door and threw himself into the gloomy chill of the hall . |
| 18 | The whole company — all but for Colley the Mason — was ranged round the chapel when she banged shut the door and bolted it against the mob . |
| 19 | Benjamin smiled , opened the stable door and joined us in the yard . |
| 20 | Within a few weeks of the Ashleys moving in , she drove up , knocked on the door and welcomed them to the area . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm out of condition , ’ she panted , as Penry opened the door and pushed her inside the kitchen . |
| 22 | Unless she comes to the front door , and follows you down the path ; or comes to the back door and follows you into the garden . |
| 23 | He hurried through the door and closed it with a crash . |
| 24 | Ralph hustled her out of the house , locked the door and preceded her down the path to the car . |
| 25 | She prised her husband 's fingers from the edge of the door and pulled him into the hall . |