Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I said that I did , he led me up the narrow street to the church and unlocked the ancient door . |
| 2 | She crossed the dinosaur gallery , carefully averting her eyes from her own display , unlocked the solid door and arrived in the security and peace of her own office . |
| 3 | His tall house loomed over him as he unlocked the front door . |
| 4 | Adam unlocked the front door and they went inside . |
| 5 | Boyd Stych unlocked the front door and slung his knapsack into the corner reserved for the coats and hats of his wife 's visitors ; clumped through the lounge in his heavy , laced boots and shouted not very hopefully : ‘ Hi , Olga , I 'm back ! ’ |
| 6 | He waited while Father Barnes unlocked the front door , then followed him in and offered to make a cup of tea , the British specific against disaster , grief and shock . |
| 7 | Emily unlocked the front door and stepped inside . |
| 8 | He came home and unlocked the front door , calling out as he came . |
| 9 | We made it round the side of the house , unlocked the back door and got into the street behind . |
| 10 | At once , she picked up the gold key from the table , unlocked the little door into the garden , and then began to eat a piece of mushroom . |
| 11 | Then I unlocked the main door . |
| 12 | She flung the inside door to one side , was about to slam it but changed her mind and closed it behind her in a quiet and controlled manner . |
| 13 | She marched into the hall and flung the front door open . |
| 14 | As she passed the back door she noticed that the lid had fallen off the dustbin and the fresh spring wind was playing havoc with the bits of paper and odds and ends that lay strewn on the tiled path . |
| 15 | I have n't been into her bedroom though I saw some chair legs and a pair of shoes as I passed the half-open door . |
| 16 | They gratefully made the front door of Nails 's terrace house and crowded into the kitchen with the others . |
| 17 | ‘ Where are you sleeping ? ’ she asked as we made the front door . |
| 18 | With those I returned at speed to the boathouse and attacked the lower door , first hammering the toe of the tyre lever into a nonexistent crack between the wooden door frame and the surrounding brickwork at a level just below the keyhole , then bashing the far end of that iron , to put heavy leverage against the door frame , then wrenching out the lever and repeating the whole process above the lock , this time with fury . |
| 19 | He tried the first door , it opened into the kitchen ; the second led to the living-room . |
| 20 | He tried the front door . |
| 21 | He tried the front door . |
| 22 | Theodora tried the front door . |
| 23 | I shook the rain out of my hair and wiped my feet on the doormat , then stepped into the porch and tried the inner door . |
| 24 | He tried the back door but it was firmly bolted . |
| 25 | She tried the back door and found it open , and going in she turned on some lights and made herself a cup of coffee . |
| 26 | I felt like Father Christmas as I entered the front door of the cottage to be welcomed like a long-lost son . |
| 27 | Mrs Bennett was standing in the hall when she entered the front door , beady-eyed and flustered like an angry hen . |
| 28 | A battered life-size carving of Kean as Shylock greeted Charles as he entered the front door . |
| 29 | Without knocking or hesitation he entered the left-hand door , drew up a chair and , with full and accurate expectation that he was awaited , opened his document case , threw the photographs on the desk and said , ‘ That 's the proof then . |
| 30 | Safe in her own hallway , Miss Worthington bolted the front door , turned the master key . |