Example sentences of "door and [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She registered all this , opened the front door and knew also , immediately , that there was something alien about the house . |
| 2 | He went to the side door and checked outside ; still no obvious movement . |
| 3 | Carefully I open the door and step outside . |
| 4 | To open the door and step inside was to leave the atmosphere of a hospital . |
| 5 | All too often when they cease to use a building , they simply lock the door and walk away . |
| 6 | Seeing her husband , she set it down by the back door and came across to the stable . |
| 7 | He just walked into her room , closed the door and came across to her , and Maggie stared at him wildly as he took her arm , drew her from the balcony and shut the french window , |
| 8 | Benjamin threw open the top part of the stable door and grinned maliciously . |
| 9 | Strangely angry with him , Sarella pushed open the door and stamped inside . |
| 10 | The enormity of what had gone wrong struck him afresh and he started kicking the door and yelling again , but this time nobody answered , not even the snoring drunks . |
| 11 | He had opened the loose-box door and disappeared inside , returning leading a bay horse of about fifteen hands by the halter . |
| 12 | The second Arab walked to a door and disappeared inside . |
| 13 | Then he darted out of the room , pausing only when he reached the barn , to lean against the door and breathe deeply . |
| 14 | She forbade him to accompany her beyond the door and walked alone over the golden sand past the flower-beds to the gate . |
| 15 | The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand . |
| 16 | She glanced out of the kitchen door and said quickly , ‘ That 's all I wanted to say . |
| 17 | Steve reached out desperately to stop his father but he had already opened the driver 's door and had somehow inched himself out . |
| 18 | Miss Watson closed the door and leant heavily against it . |
| 19 | Grabbing her case , she marched along the passage to find a bedroom as far away from Guy Sterne 's as possible , and pushed inside it , shutting the door and leaning weakly back against it , suddenly aware of how much she was trembling . |
| 20 | I shut the bedroom door and dressed hurriedly , waking Jamila . |
| 21 | Athelstan went over to the door and looked carefully at it . |
| 22 | She ran back through the kitchen and down the steps into the lower scullery , but when she came out by the back door and looked across to the wall , Tristram was not be seen . |
| 23 | I went quietly up to the door and looked inside . |
| 24 | He pushed the letter under the door and went away . |
| 25 | Ruth opened the door and went outside . |
| 26 | The guard opened the door and went outside . |
| 27 | Unobserved , Beth closed the door and went softly into her own room . |
| 28 | ‘ I just came home , let myself in by the back door and went straight to bed . ’ |
| 29 | He closed the door and went across , pulling the sheet back slowly , careful not to wake her , exposing the fullness of her rump , the elegance of her back . |
| 30 | He pushed open the door and went inside . |