Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] in the doorway " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maud caught him in the doorway of his hotel one evening . |
| 2 | I lifted the receiver and listened and it must have been the expression on my face which stopped him in the doorway . |
| 3 | Rain joined him in the doorway but there was no time to speak before Cobalt splashed through the puddle to them . |
| 4 | ‘ And he tried to put his tongue in my mouth and when he pulled me in the doorway he — he unfastened the front of his trousers . ’ |
| 5 | He met her in the doorway . |
| 6 | Wycliffe stood by the desk , Sarah planted herself in the doorway . |
| 7 | He seized her in the doorway . |
| 8 | He saw her in the doorway , and said , ‘ What are you hanging around for ? ’ |
| 9 | Fran must have made some noise , some movement , some tiny betraying gesture , because he swung round , his face hardening when he saw her in the doorway . |
| 10 | Turning slowly , she saw him in the doorway , cool and laconic , inspecting her curled-up figure dispassionately . |
| 11 | When I saw him in the doorway I thought he 'd come to settle that score . |
| 12 | On hearing this , the two royal princes prostrated themselves in the doorway of the throne room and pressed their foreheads to the floor tiles in a reverent attitude . |
| 13 | That evening , she waited until Charlie was in his office and then presented herself in the doorway . |
| 14 | Bernice 's summons halted him in the doorway . |
| 15 | In fact , if he had n't looked up from his coffee and spotted her in the doorway , Caroline might have returned to her room and waited until she was sure he 'd gone . |