Example sentences of "[vb past] at the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they clustered at the door , preparing their faces for the raw air , she still sensed those eyes burning into her . |
| 2 | He stopped at the door and smiled at her . |
| 3 | McLeish stopped at the door of the interview room and looked in through the spy-hole , wanting to get some feel for the evidently hostile and , by all accounts , neurotic Penelope Huntley . |
| 4 | Charles stopped at the door as the others filed out . |
| 5 | She stopped at the door . |
| 6 | He stopped at the door of the flat directly above his own , the empty place . |
| 7 | Athelstan stopped at the door and looked back . |
| 8 | He stopped at the door and stared in for a minute . |
| 9 | It was almost 4 a.m. when the three loud knocks came at the door . |
| 10 | But the Venezuelan turned at the door and ordered us to come downstairs and drink with them . |
| 11 | He turned at the door . |
| 12 | He turned at the door . |
| 13 | As his English guest turned at the door of his study to bow to the Romanian head of state before leaving his presence , he saw that Ceauşescu was holding out his fingers in the shape of a gun pointing at the head of his own interpreter ! |
| 14 | She turned at the door to wave but the car was already in gear and accelerating down the drive . |
| 15 | I turned at the door and said , ‘ Just write the truth , tuan Hans , that will be the message . ’ |
| 16 | Theda turned at the door . |
| 17 | Pietro Miletti turned at the door . |
| 18 | He turned at the door . |
| 19 | They assembled at the door of the mill . |
| 20 | By the time the film crew arrived at the door of the Fox and Hounds , the drifts were rising to eighteen inches . |
| 21 | Farmer Boldwood arrived at the door of the barn , and spoke to Bathsheba . |
| 22 | Mrs. Bidwell arrived at the door as the two attendants from the mortuary van were carrying out the body . |
| 23 | He saw the King to the gates and , coming back , heard the clangour of Elfswitha 's malevolence before he arrived at the door of their chamber . |
| 24 | It was just the way his hand flew to his pocket when you hammered at the door . ’ |
| 25 | Danielle hammered at the door until a face peeped out of the window . |
| 26 | Seb hammered at the door and tugged at the bell-pull but without anyone answering . |
| 27 | Yet when she arrived , when she knocked at the door and waited outside , bits of the outfit threatened to dissociate , to turn ugly and risible . |
| 28 | A big grey house with a ‘ Guests ’ sign stood among trees , so I knocked at the door and asked how to find the holy well . |
| 29 | Thanking the kindly driver , I knocked at the door of Radio Glencoe . |
| 30 | With affectionate humour he described her and his favourite aunt ( called by her clergyman father in remembrance of the line in Acts where when ‘ Peter knocked at the door of the gate , a damsel came to hearken , named Rhoda ’ ) as being like ‘ a couple of Bengal matches — you know , those fizzy things with a pink light ’ . |