Example sentences of "[pos pn] door [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Henderson of the Daily Mail is in charge now and he is pushing against my door from the inside , but Today are their rivals , and outside the door is a man from Today in bell-bottoms and platform shoes . |
| 2 | I did have er upon my door from the last week in last term was a saying er , you know this one , I do n't know if you 've had this ? |
| 3 | On the day after his funeral , her best friends called at her door with the news , ‘ Surprise ! |
| 4 | Crossing the road to water the bed of dahlias and moon daisies and nasturtiums she kept on the grass margin across the road from her door at the beginning of the village , Mrs Reynolds paused to watch Rose make her way round by the bridge to the post office and muttered venomously , ‘ There 's no fool like an old fool' , as if confronting the worst part of her own nature . |
| 5 | We just sat ( there were two of us ) one on either side , outside her door at the end of a long corridor in The Inn On The Park hotel . |
| 6 | The baby-faced rapist knocked on her door in the early hours , claiming to be a neighbour who had locked himself out in the pouring rain . |
| 7 | She knows nothing , she insists , and was ‘ shocked ’ when the police pounded on her door in the middle of the night to tell her that her ex-husband had been killed . |
| 8 | She says she 's most nervous when people come to her door in the evening — salespeople for instance — night-time calls can be very disturbing . |
| 9 | need a new kitchen , du n no about need a new back door , our kitchen looks totally different to them , oh I know what it is , they 've got their door to the living room in the kitchen , that 's what makes a lot of difference do n't it ? but it could be designed better than that |
| 10 | Physical disability makes shopping difficult , and sometimes forces the elderly to rely entirely on the good but fairly limited range of foods that can be delivered to their door by the milkman . |
| 11 | But I find the walk from its door to the water almost unbearable . |
| 12 | Individualism was well established as one of the cardinal virtues of Western civilization when Japan reopened her doors in the latter half of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | The manufacture of pins continued at Frogmarsh until 4 May 1934 , when the company closed its doors for the last time . |
| 14 | When the Reading Room opened its doors for the first time in the city of St Louis , Missouri , it became the world 's first literary brothel . |
| 15 | Foxhall Stadium opens its doors for the first time on Sunday ( 2.30 pm ) with the Bangers and new formula stock cars . |
| 16 | THE North Staffordshire Railway at Cheddleton , near Leek on the Churnet Valley Railway , has recently opened its doors for the 1992 season of running dates . |
| 17 | The Irish counterpart to a London rock landmark , will open its doors for the first time in the Temple Bar area of Dublin in early December . |
| 18 | The Frank Cooper Marmalade Shop , which forever linked the name Oxford with marmalade , is closing its doors for the last time . |
| 19 | The Town Cinema opens its doors for the first time in more than thirty years tonight . |
| 20 | A new club which aims to give homeless and unemployed people what could be their only good meal of the day has opened its doors for the first time . |
| 21 | A hospital for pensioners that opened almost a hundred years ago is about to close its doors for the last time . |
| 22 | Eleven people will lose their jobs when the slaughter house closes its doors for the last time on November 26 . |
| 23 | But today it closes its doors for the last time . |
| 24 | How one charity helps another The Goodwill charity shop in Court Arcade , Darlington , closed its doors for the last time on Tuesday after four years of fund-raising for a children 's village in India . |
| 25 | EMPLOYEES of Courtaulds Fibres , Canada , gathered for a Christmas party in December , just weeks after the viscose rayon plant closed its doors for the last time . |
| 26 | Essex Rivers Healthcare health promotion unit will be opening its doors on the day and will welcome smokers wanting advice on how to give up the habit . |
| 27 | In an exciting new venture , Napier opened its doors on the KJP Gallery in October . |
| 28 | Gallery attendances have doubled since the new Arts Centre opened its doors at the South Entrance to the University campus |
| 29 | What is billed as the First Green Consumer Exhibition opens its doors at The Royal Horticultural Halls between 24 and 28 May . |
| 30 | Ron and Julia are the last couple to be married in the 160-year-old church , which will be closing its doors at the end of June . |