Example sentences of "[pers pn] at the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | The salty , fishy odour of baccala ( dried salt cod ) hits you at the door , and there is a good selection of Spanish pork products , not forgetting chorizo sausage and serrano ham . |
| 2 | I think there might be a parcel for you at the door is it ? |
| 3 | Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I regret I must leave you at the door , Lady Isabel . |
| 6 | and we went in and like the vicar greets you at the door do n't he and she was like up to the vicar like , you know , she 's more fucking heavier than thou |
| 7 | So I says only on one condition if your daddy pi leaves you at the door at school and picks you up |
| 8 | A small , brown-haired woman met him at the door , surrounded by a group of noisy , dirty children who eyed Corbett boldly , then ran to hide and giggle behind their mother 's skirts . |
| 9 | When he emerged I saw behind him at the door a small , black-haired , middle-aged Japanese woman in a red kimono . |
| 10 | Wood met him at the door . |
| 11 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 12 | Now , I must welcome him at the door . |
| 13 | I left him at the door , and went upstairs to find Mr and Mrs Linton . |
| 14 | Subdued by the mockery , she joined him at the door he was now unlocking , still not wholly trusting him , and the gleam in his eyes told her he knew it . |
| 15 | ‘ And , lady — ’ His voice stopped her at the door . |
| 16 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 17 | I could hear her at the door , |
| 18 | Mrs Bennett waylaid her at the door of the little sitting-room which Celia had designated for her and Brian 's everyday use . |
| 19 | Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy . |
| 20 | She looked behind her at the door of the courtroom . |
| 21 | He must have heard her at the door . |
| 22 | ‘ Lissa , ’ Adam greeted her at the door . |
| 23 | Anne caught her at the door to the bedroom . |
| 24 | ‘ How would it be if I returned your gift so that you can give it at the door ? ’ |
| 25 | Just dump it at the door there . |
| 26 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 27 | A talkative Bruce Willis dropped me outside the London flat fifteen minutes later ( you can assess the situation on the way upstairs ) , and Kenneth came down to meet me at the door . |
| 28 | When he greets me at the door , he is still wearing an apron , after ‘ helping out ’ in the attached tea shop which he runs ‘ as a bit of a hobby ’ . |
| 29 | Her warm and wide smile greeted me at the door and I forgot for a while the riddles and innuendos which surrounded Brian Harley and hid the killer of Froggy Davies . |
| 30 | The Champ greets me at the door to his mother 's house in Louisville . |