Example sentences of "at the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fresh band meets them , at the crowded door |
| 2 | not fair on a animal as I say , he 's bound to be trapped at the bloody door for hours before anybody come in and |
| 3 | At the one-way door that led back into the station 's tiny foyer and reception area , she stepped aside for him and said , ‘ I hope you find her . ’ |
| 4 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 5 | Knocking at the first door , he was greeted by a woman with a cigarette in her mouth , curlers in her hair and flour on her hands . |
| 6 | When Ruth and Miss Beard arrived at the rear door of the house , the carriage was already waiting . |
| 7 | This gentleman bocht the donkey fae MacGreigor — it was afore my day though — an it wes two or three days in the field at the front door . |
| 8 | Suitable for use both indoors and out , with a range up to 50m , the new Courier chime enables the presence of visitors at the front door to be signalled clearly to homeowners no matter where they are located , whether in the house or garden . |
| 9 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 10 | But after the marriage and the party , when it was time , the brougham was already waiting for us at the front door , I could n't bear to leave . |
| 11 | I stood at the front door of No. 5 , watching Dana straddle his bike , adjust his backpack and wave cheerily to me as he roared off down the road . |
| 12 | They ran back to the house and Endill waited at the front door while his mother went to see who or what it was . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's them now , ’ said Maggie hearing scuffling at the front door . |
| 14 | As he took out his pipe , there came a knocking at the front door . |
| 15 | A tradesman who has been ringing at the front door for several minutes gives up and goes away . |
| 16 | RICHARD and EMMA are standing at the front door of a rambling , untidy , Edwardian Mansion . |
| 17 | Before any civilised reply could be made , there was a rapping at the front door . |
| 18 | Nellie asked at the front door . |
| 19 | Much to my surprise , Karen greeted me at the front door with a glass of champagne in her hand and , still more unusual , a smile on her face . |
| 20 | One of Sam 's daughters knocked at the front door until a key landed at her feet , dropped painfully from a bedroom window . |
| 21 | Look at the front door . |
| 22 | But Jack had only one thought as he and Tina ran down the broken tarmac of the estate road , finally arriving breathless at the front door of the Shepherd 's house . |
| 23 | For the inexperienced debtor the arrival of a bailiff at the front door could be a harrowing experience , said the National Consumer Council . |
| 24 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 25 | Above all we should resist it because it is really intended to allow legalised Euthanasia to sneak in by the kitchen window having been refused entry at the front door . |
| 26 | He was at the front door when , on impulse , he turned back and said to Meg Dennison : ‘ I think you mentioned that you walked from the Old Rectory , Mrs Dennison . |
| 27 | The back door of the Old Rectory , giving access to the scullery , was normally left open during daylight hours and an inner door to the house locked , but Alice Mair had knocked at the front door and made herself known . |
| 28 | Tom knocked at the front door but there was no reply . |
| 29 | He was cut short by a loud knocking at the front door . |
| 30 | It was after they had cleared supper and were sitting by the range with a cup of tea that the first person to arrive knocked at the front door . |