Example sentences of "the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start of the book there are false notes , those of a Hemingway war correspondent : ‘ Every knock at the door could mean the end for me . |
| 2 | Here a single actor plays an imprisoned man , and performs in silence , and the scene culminates in an emotional breakdown where the prisoner beats on the door of his cell . |
| 3 | Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ . |
| 4 | C'm on you , he said , and held the door open for him . |
| 5 | When I got back I sat in front of the big glass with the door shut and the lights off , till dawn . |
| 6 | At the door , one more joke , rather good . |
| 7 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , tearing the sheet in his hurry to turn over the page , I know you never reply to letters and refuse to answer the door or the phone . |
| 8 | Good to lock the door and settle down with it . |
| 9 | I thanked him and tore up the prescription at the door . |
| 10 | She stood at the door and stared . |
| 11 | Yesterday he rang the bell for a long time but no point in opening the door . |
| 12 | I crept to the door and , with a sudden movement , opened it wide . |
| 13 | When he had done I followed him out of the room and shut the door . |
| 14 | I held the door open for him . |
| 15 | I shut the door behind him and locked it . |
| 16 | Too often , though , myth and reality part company outside the door , behind the roses and the last flailing morris dancer . |
| 17 | She made her way , still seemingly dancing to the tune , the huge crocodile-skin handbag on her arm swaying heavily in time , to the door down to the saloon . |
| 18 | Sergeant Bramble was so engrossed in mouthing along with the Daily Express that he did not notice the opening of the door . |
| 19 | But before Bramble could answer , the door opened and another stranger entered . |
| 20 | Saying which he passed jauntily from their ken , shutting the door behind him with a flourish . |
| 21 | Be sure and tap the door , else you 'll catch 'er in 'er desserbil . |
| 22 | The door of No. 1 , where his wife Cissy Salt dressed , was ajar . |
| 23 | The door of No. 4 was open , the room empty ; No. 3 , the room his mother shared with Bunty Baird , was shut , and as he came to it he heard a sharp crack , a yelp and Bunty 's voice ‘ Oh shog off , you silly old fool , beat it ! ’ |
| 24 | As he hesitated the door opened and Gilbert Forbes came out in a rush , his make-up smudged on one side of his face , his toupee not quite straight . |
| 25 | He glared at Conroy without seeing him and charged back into No. 4 , slamming the door . |
| 26 | The door banged open . |
| 27 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 28 | The door flew open and Bunty danced in . |
| 29 | He grabbed my elbow and dragged me to the door . |
| 30 | What did she have to cry about , I thought as I stumbled through the door . |