Example sentences of "they [vb past] the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bolted the door closed , top and bottom , and left Ellie crammed tight against all the junk that was stuffed into the tiny space . |
| 2 | But it did sell ‘ prime promotion space ’ — the shelves at the end of each island unit that faced customers as they entered the door , and allowed four or five copies to face outwards . |
| 3 | As they banged the door shut , the vibration set Granny 's chair rocking and I put my hands over my eyes . |
| 4 | So they undid the door and the princess stepped into the garden . |
| 5 | They slammed the door behind them and panted and smiled in the darkness . |
| 6 | Carl from upstairs got arrested too , and he said that Ibrahim was screaming all night in the room next to him in the prison , and when they opened the door in the morning , he 'd scratched all the skin off of his face . |
| 7 | They opened the door and entered a large expanse of silence . |
| 8 | Steve Harper , haulage contractor , stood outside alone for a grateful crisp smokeless moment of silence , and when they opened the door to him a strange shadow of the night sidled in with him from prehistory . |
| 9 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 10 | I had sweat all over my face and as soon as they opened the door I just went for one of them . |
| 11 | In the end they opened the door and forced their way in . |
| 12 | Very cautiously , they opened the door , and saw nothing more alarming than poor Oliver , curled up in a sad little heap on the step . |
| 13 | Mary was standing in the middle of her room when they opened the door a few minutes later . |
| 14 | But he had cause to revise his opinion a moment later when they opened the door and went in . |
| 15 | This was the picture which greeted George and Heather Hurcombe when they opened the door of their house at Dursley in Gloucestershire . |
| 16 | There was a stall in front , but because of the inclement weather this was now bare so they opened the door and went inside . |
| 17 | They heard the door close and the heavy clump of feet on the stairs and rose to their feet as Doctor McCann stepped into the kitchen . |
| 18 | They heard the door open and close . |
| 19 | Antony rose , but they heard the door being opened before he left the room . |
| 20 | They heard the door close and the footsteps begin to climb the stairs . |
| 21 | They give you something for that cos I m the B B C asked me once to , they knocked the door and said would I make a note of all the programmes for one week and just put my opinion , it was just four different , you know , |
| 22 | Zeugma They took the door off its hinges and went through it . |
| 23 | Then they saw the door open and Jonathan Ram stood on the threshold , knife raised . |
| 24 | Yelling in Bengali for help , they reached the door of the other family . |
| 25 | As they reached the door , she looked back at Doyle . |
| 26 | As they reached the door he said : ‘ Is strange . |
| 27 | Constance gasped as they reached the door of the apartment . |
| 28 | As they reached the door she glanced down at the small flower bed which gardeners in the congregation were trying to cultivate with more optimism than success in the unrewarding soil at the side of the path . |
| 29 | As they reached the door she added , ‘ We had a certificate from the coroner ; the funeral is to be on Wednesday . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Have a quick shower too , ’ he suggested when they reached the door of her room . |