Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] at the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she got about half a dozen of the strongest boys from standard one to stand guard at the door . |
| 2 | Are you allowed to transact business at the door Paul ? |
| 3 | Put Stuart at the door , that 'll keep him quiet , put a guard |
| 4 | He could see Ruth at the door of his office , frowning , shaking her head , looking back over her shoulder . |
| 5 | In an 1884 case , the Divisional Court held that an artisan whose wife had bought blankets at the door for 22/6d when he had given her permission to spend but 17/6d , could not be held liable for the extra sum . |
| 6 | If some of these novels , like Iris Murdoch 's The Bell ( 1958 ) , stand tiptoe at the door of faith , they are content to remain there and not to enter in , at least as worshippers . |
| 7 | I 'm sure you could have got tickets at the door if you had wanted them early . |
| 8 | At that point , John joined Joan at the door . |
| 9 | The concert , on April 25 at Mainsforth Community Centre , will be open to anyone over 14 and tickets will cost £2 at the door . |
| 10 | Dolly and Carrie were still working on Anna in the bedroom when Seb heard Boz at the door of the cottage . |
| 11 | She went on weeping , making herself ill with it , until she heard Paul at the door . |
| 12 | He landed him invitations to society dances where Jack would normally have been lucky to be collecting coats at the door . |
| 13 | After the screaming adrenalin of the snatch outside Oxford , they had been penned up day and night in a single house , drinking beer from cans he had bought at motorway service stations , keeping out of sight all the time , hearing callers at the door ring and ring before finally going away without an answer . |
| 14 | Here you bought things at the door — fish , pies , cakes ; you did n't know where they had been ! |
| 15 | He went back inside to join the queue for the toilets , leaving Jude at the door , watching the blobs of wet snow pass through the lamplight . |
| 16 | The opportunity may , therefore , exist for settlement at this stage and there is no doubt that it is preferable so to proceed than to achieve settlement at the door of the Court . |
| 17 | There was a stunned silence , then the guests scrambled to leave , but the proprietors of the restaurant stood guard at the door with a policeman . |
| 18 | Lunia , the sympathetic friend and neighbour , who was herself interested in Modigliani , managed to calm him and after that she stood guard at the door to prevent any intrusion . |