Example sentences of "[noun pl] at [art] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | Folks use them for making nature films ; bluetits in their nestboxes , badgers in their sets , intruders at the door . |
| 2 | Like a baby , playing with plastic beakers on the edge of a volcano , or shuddering at tales of the Big Bad Wolf while monstrous murderers sharpened their knives at the door . |
| 3 | A major problem with traditional Marxist analysis is that by laying all sins at the door of capitalist development , it fails to explain what keeps the periphery in a long-term relationship with the centre , since there appears to be little in the relationship for either partner . |
| 4 | Members of such groups are usually very friendly and so grateful that people turn up to their performances that they are quite often there to smile and chat to visitors at the door . |
| 5 | This was fine , but solid evidence will have to be provided that the scene in which Palin woke up on the Orient Express to the knock of brioches at the door was the real thing . |
| 6 | What is also clear is that the drive for monetary union will compound this problem , and place even further stresses and responsibilities at the door of EC regional policy . |
| 7 | Here you bought things at the door — fish , pies , cakes ; you did n't know where they had been ! |
| 8 | He landed him invitations to society dances where Jack would normally have been lucky to be collecting coats at the door . |
| 9 | In an 1884 case , the Divisional Court held that an artisan whose wife had bought blankets at the door for 22/6d when he had given her permission to spend but 17/6d , could not be held liable for the extra sum . |
| 10 | Check your preconceptions at the door , for you are entering the twilight zone . |
| 11 | After the screaming adrenalin of the snatch outside Oxford , they had been penned up day and night in a single house , drinking beer from cans he had bought at motorway service stations , keeping out of sight all the time , hearing callers at the door ring and ring before finally going away without an answer . |
| 12 | They 'd left their aches and pains at the door and were smiling into each other 's eyes . |
| 13 | I had already coughed up forty bucks at the door . |
| 14 | People had come , as Moscow people do , provided they have the documents and status to satisfy the hard-eyed boys in leather jackets at the door . |
| 15 | The old tollhouse further upstream by the site of the totally removed old bridge is a very desirable residence with ubiquitous modern coachlamps at the door and surrounded by bungalows built ‘ where groups of fine cattle were grazing on the rich grass ’ , that made JTR ‘ covet the power of the animal painter . ’ |
| 16 | Now it had come to this , the repomen at the door for the second time . |
| 17 | To enhance Wal-Mart 's folksy , small-town image , Walton placed little old ladies at the door of each store , to act as official greeters . |
| 18 | When everything was ready and Rosemary was later than usual , Leith could stand Travis 's anxious glances at the door no longer . |
| 19 | When confronted with Plymouth Brethren or other sects at the door , my major defence ploy was to claim that I lived in a ‘ Quaker house ’ . |
| 20 | I 'm sure you could have got tickets at the door if you had wanted them early . |
| 21 | Family and friends left flowers and wreaths at the door to the building in Boughton , Chester , which now houses a women 's fashion shop on the ground floor . |
| 22 | Once , in a very bad patch , Jasper had been like that for weeks , over a month , and she had lived in terror for the knock of the police at the door , and news about Jasper she had been dreading since she had first met him . |
| 23 | People were stopping outside the office where it took place and whispering to each other — someone had even placed a bouquet of flowers at the door that morning . |
| 24 | The result , hopefully , would be publicity , free , and the admission fees — five shillings in advance , ten shillings at the door — would do something to pay off Mr Herbert , waiting in Paris . |
| 25 | To safeguard the priceless treasures they work with Barley studios have no signs at the door … they do n't advertise . |
| 26 | Alan Bennett says : ‘ Critics should be searched for certain adjectives at the door of the theatre . |
| 27 | Many low income families may still face enforcement action through private bailiffs at the door , rather than less stringent repayment methods . |
| 28 | She decorated the house with great big marbled leapfrogs , two matching ones at the door . |
| 29 | They talked about the difficulty of getting food in , when all they could find was Chinese takeaway ; about strange knocks at the door of the hotel room , and why the Iranians sometimes left unexpectedly , and who the hell they were really dealing with ; about North 's pressing need for aspirin ; and about getting the hostages out , for which the only foreseeable currency was arms . |
| 30 | Undeterred , Serrigny knocks at the door . |