Example sentences of "knock at the door and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pets , he just wants to say hello , you knock at the door and this Afghan wolfhound is playing in the back there , take it in the kitchen and they say to you he only wants to say hello , that 's right |
| 2 | I said , people that knock at the door and say , the taxi 's ready the taxi man does n't come and do it . |
| 3 | In a clever piece of bridgework between the two , the poet is interrupted by an old friend who comes knocking at the door and calling his name . |
| 4 | Yet when she arrived , when she knocked at the door and waited outside , bits of the outfit threatened to dissociate , to turn ugly and risible . |
| 5 | A big grey house with a ‘ Guests ’ sign stood among trees , so I knocked at the door and asked how to find the holy well . |
| 6 | Andrew , now 29 , was 15 that summer when he knocked at the door and introduced himself . |
| 7 | I knocked at the door and was told to enter . |
| 8 | Gabriel knocked at the door and asked if they could give him a bed for the night and a bite to eat . |
| 9 | Most of them were well gone in their cups and offered no objection when Cranston knocked at the door and demanded entrance . |
| 10 | They just knocked at the door and said how would you care to take part ? |
| 11 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 12 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 13 | What I used to do with a youngster was to knock at the door and his mother would say , ‘ Oh , God , what have you done ? ’ |
| 14 | This was the moment when Melody chose to knock at the door and Anna 's head jerked back , away from him . |
| 15 | And they forgot to knock at the door and make themselves known to the people inside . |
| 16 | Knocked at the door and these Pekes starting yakking away . |
| 17 | Merrill was drying her hair on Saturday afternoon when Diane from the next flat knocked at the door and held out a letter addressed to Merrill , explaining that it had been included with her junk mail which she had ignored until a moment ago . |
| 18 | Anyway she 'd knocked at the door and er , I said to her oh I do n't have to buy anything and she said no , no and erm |