Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | He re-entered the hangar and searched for the switch to slide the double doors open electrically . |
| 2 | It was only with great effort that was able to get them to arrange the Open Door Schooling visit so that it was useful as a teaching exercise , instead of being a ceremonial procession through the commune . |
| 3 | Maxim reached around him to pull the front door shut and ushered him down to the car . |
| 4 | Rod , after managing to find the front door with his unpatched eye is greeted by his colleague who is bent double clutching a bottle of wine . |
| 5 | On their way up to their office in the attic , therefore , Ian and Theodora had to pass the open doors of the offices of the Dean and the Archdeacon on the ground floor , and that of Canon Wheeler on the first . |
| 6 | ‘ Have to try again later , ’ said Caroline , leaving to answer the front door . |
| 7 | It is so easy to do , but if you leave a tin of polish and the duster on the stairs say , while you go up and then have to dash down to answer the front door bell , you can easily slip on them . |
| 8 | One Sunday evening they were missing at bedtime , and Hindley ordered me angrily to lock the front door . |
| 9 | Did we remember to lock the front door ? |
| 10 | Before she left she had gone into her kitchen , ostensibly to lock the back door , but in fact to look at her new refrigerator , her automatic washing-machine and her food-mixer . |
| 11 | I was going to lock the back door make sure that down |
| 12 | Michele moved to open the outer door , and asked levelly , ‘ Shall we go ? ’ |
| 13 | If everything went well , they would get there at a quarter to two and wait for Johann to open the front door . |
| 14 | It was not yet time for Johann to open the front door for my friends , and I still had to wait . |
| 15 | So anyway , I went to open the outside door |
| 16 | She took a fistful of napkins in one hand and a basket of empty baking dishes in the other , allowed McGee to open the back door for her and , with her slim companion , was gone . |
| 17 | I pulled up outside the rest home she worked at and reached through the window to open the back door for her , the way real mushers do without getting out themselves . |
| 18 | The woman used a spare key to open the back door , retrieved the telephone and called the police who arrested Smith the next day . |
| 19 | Inside the turret there were twelve small TV screens by means of which the guards monitored the approaches to the building and knew when to open the electric door . |
| 20 | ‘ We ca n't find the caretaker to open the locker-room door , ’ replied the assistant . |
| 21 | She pushed her damp curls from her face , and went to open the french doors to let in what wind there was tonight . |
| 22 | There are very few homes in Middlesex where you need to cross a stream to reach the front door , but that 's just what Pauline and John Williams have to do to reach their beautiful detached house . |
| 23 | She was half anticipating having to fight her way through a jungle of undergrowth to reach the front door . |
| 24 | She stepped back with remarkable alacrity , but Jackson was quicker , using his foot to halt the closing door . |
| 25 | Johnny Dee tried to open a rear door . |
| 26 | Cut the bad stuff out and er put the new timber in and shape it to fit the existing door casing , architrave and |
| 27 | It will often be better to fit a sliding door track on a shallow plinth to get it level , and to install the top frame to a ceiling bearer screwed to the joists of the ceiling . |
| 28 | A DARLINGTON couple wanted to buy a new door . |
| 29 | Clarissa promised to leave the front door on the latch and pointed to the ceiling . |
| 30 | It was due to leave the main door at noon and wend its way to the arena by a circuitous route through the grounds , so that as many people as possible would get a good view . |