Example sentences of "door [coord] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiff , a four year old child , entered the house through an unsecured door and fell from a second floor window . |
| 2 | I open the door and burst into the warm night air . |
| 3 | She opened the door and stared at the grotesque couple . |
| 4 | His words were drowned out by the roar of automatic fire , as another hail of slugs hammered against the metal sheeting of the door and screamed into the far wall . |
| 5 | Massingham walked over to Berowne 's jacket hanging on a hook at the back of the door and felt in the two outer and one inner pockets . |
| 6 | The black creature which had been Meh'Lindi undogged the door and darted into a wide corridor , misty with smoke . |
| 7 | The Persian closed the door and went to the big mirror on one wall . |
| 8 | Through the gate and over the lumpy ground , and she opened the door and went into a long drill hall with a clacking wooden floor . |
| 9 | I knocked on the open door and strode into the front room trusting that Patterson was right behind me . |
| 10 | Seb hammered at the door and tugged at the bell-pull but without anyone answering . |
| 11 | ‘ I think we 've concluded our business , ’ she told him crisply as she snatched open the driver 's door and climbed into the sun-warmed interior . |
| 12 | She pushed open the door and moved into the strange world of sparkling glass and soft carpets . |
| 13 | He tore open the cupboard door and peered at the tiny porthole of glass on the front of the central heating boiler . |
| 14 | Sometimes he simply hung over the bank and untied the boat , other times he rattled a stick against the boathouse door and shouted in a gruff , common voice — he was a good mimic — ‘ Who 's there ? |
| 15 | The big man beat on the door and shouted in the high nasal tone of the Caucasus , slammed his fist into the woodwork , demanded attention . |
| 16 | Corbett returned to his cell , carefully bolted the door and drew from a large leather pouch , parchment , pumice-stone , inkhorn , quill pens , a long thin razor-edged knife and a wad of red sealing-wax . |
| 17 | She put away the car , quietly locked the garage door and stood for a few moments looking out over the valley . |