Example sentences of "stand [adv] at the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Korah , Dathan and Abiram stand defiantly at the doors of their tents with their wives and children , the ground opens beneath them and swallows them up , together with the tents and all their belongings . |
| 2 | They all s they stand there at the door going lighter as if it matters they have to get off the train with a cigarette in their mouth or they 're uncool , some shit like this |
| 3 | Celia , standing uncertainly at the door of the nursery while her son was finishing his bottle , had been feeling rather de trop . |
| 4 | Then they all saw that the royal lance , which had stood upright at the door of the tent , had been flung down so violently that its point had pierced the breast-plate of his piled armour ; and the shaft of the lance was twisted and discoloured , all the armour dinted , and the royal pennant charred as if it had been burned . |
| 5 | She 'd stood there at the door where he was such a short time before . |