Example sentences of "opened the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hurried out of the lift , along the corridor and opened the door to my office . |
| 2 | She opened the door to the living room ; John was fast asleep . |
| 3 | This was when somebody opened the door to the inner sanctum where the support band was playing . |
| 4 | The child who opened the door to him was the one that had been out in the fields with his father . |
| 5 | There were some indifferent performances against indifferent opponents until in Atlantic City earlier this year he floored and outpointed Iran Barkley to win the World Boxing Council middleweight title , a surprise which opened the door to tonight 's affair . |
| 6 | But it was he himself who , he says , opened the door to political philosophy . |
| 7 | Alix opened the door to her salon , revealing a pink-lit interior studded with UV halo-spots and draped with the ophidian coils of her lasers and printers . |
| 8 | A dressing-gowned Masha opened the door to us . |
| 9 | Thus Brian Way opened the door to all kinds of activities ( games , relaxation exercises , ‘ warm-ups ’ and sensitivity exercises , etc. ) to be done in the name of drama . |
| 10 | Across the hall , someone opened the door to the nursery , and the thin wail of a baby cut across her thinking , and she raised her head sharply , feeling a sudden surge of anxiety . |
| 11 | She then opened the door to the flat and called out ‘ Olly ’ . |
| 12 | He opened the door to the terrace spanning the full width of the rear of the mansion , closed it behind him . |
| 13 | Dimity opened the door to Harold and greeted him with cries of welcome . |
| 14 | Rosalind opened the door to them ! |
| 15 | Now I opened the door to a white-haired lady carrying a portable tape recorder , a small box of tapes and a book . |
| 16 | When Menzies opened the door to radio communication , he could have had little appreciation of one aspect of its future impact . |
| 17 | Over the next few years , the coalition government worked on the framing of a federal law that laid the foundations of a much larger system of higher education — and opened the door to far more state control over the universities . |
| 18 | This was the day before I opened the door to the three men . |
| 19 | ‘ How blest are those who know their need of God , ’ Jesus exclaims in the Sermon on the Mount , and as he opened the door to the kingdom of heaven his listeners must have gasped . |
| 20 | Ivy opened the door to me . |
| 21 | He opened the door to the gun-room and showed the estate agent the interior . |
| 22 | I was able to follow up that evening , for my father gave me a lovely chrysanthemum bloom from his greenhouse and the next day I took it to her home and asked her mother , who opened the door to my rather nervous knock , if she would give it to her daughter . |
| 23 | Mum opened the door to them . |
| 24 | Albert his name was , and he greeted her with a kiss when he opened the door to us . |
| 25 | Neil Fraser opened the door to the outer office himself . |
| 26 | A chance conversation with Leeds managing director Bill Fotherby opened the door to talks with boss Howard Wilkinson in midweek . |
| 27 | SUNDERLAND boss Malcolm Crosby yesterday opened the door to a swap deal that would bring Norwich schemer Ian Crook to Roker Park in exchange for Gordon Armstrong . |
| 28 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 29 | Craig opened the door to the house and stood aside for her to enter . |
| 30 | Hari heard him beating at the bushes with his truncheon and then he opened the door to the workshop . |