Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment , as the old man was walking out of the door , Conway remembered the face in the book on the plane . |
| 2 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm in such a tearing hurry I just grab a nappy and bottle on the run as I head out of the door . ’ |
| 3 | Martha bolted out of the door and crashed through the hedge into Mada Joyce 's yard , expecting to hear her grandmother 's shout of rage behind her and all the more fearful when only silence pursued her . |
| 4 | I will steal out of the door unperceived . |
| 5 | There was plenty of broken glass and several glasses left on the window sills and the pavement , and of course , little piles of fag ends that barren , saving themselves journeys to the dustbins , had tipped out of the doors after everyone had gone . |
| 6 | Annabel staggered out of the door and he followed her . |
| 7 | As Dexter staggered out of the door , he saw the superintendent still pondering over Nicola 's letter , her face bathed in the light of her desk lamp . |
| 8 | Erm we have taken various steps immediately , one is that the vandalism that taking place over the erm we have immediately re-secured , I have to say there 's been about fifty erm tickets out to re-secure those those , that site over the summer but they have been re-secured and tomorrow morning there will be the commencement of bricking up of the doors and windows of the ground floor of block D , block . |
| 9 | She gabbled something polite and slunk out of the door , just remembering in time to bid everybody goodbye . |
| 10 | Jack immediately dashed out of the door followed by Alison . |
| 11 | As he stood at the door trying to persuade her of the importance of other more pressing political issues , one of her cats shot out of the door , into the road and under the wheels of a passing lorry . |
| 12 | ‘ Stay there , looking out of the door . |
| 13 | He says someone with a screwdriver or wire cutters could take the picture and walk out of the door . |
| 14 | Well , the first time he came out of the door when he was a little better , he shouted for Dick , who was in the top pasture . |
| 15 | Presently a woman came out of the door at the side of the house and walked towards them . |
| 16 | A Yek in the long coat of a merchant came out of the door of the house . |
| 17 | My younger son had said to me , going out of the door : ‘ Remember , Mum , if you let the Labour Party back in , you will ruin my education . ’ |
| 18 | She was just going out of the door . |
| 19 | He was made redundant at the end of last year but before going out of the door for the final time , he had been offered a job as employee communications manager with Eastern Electricity in Ipswich . |
| 20 | When Lee turned out of the door and looked down to where the battered bird would have landed there was nothing to see but the same old Z-shaped crack in the hard , grey pavingstone and a streak of blood . |
| 21 | She swaggered out of the door like a Mississippi gambler . |
| 22 | She got to her feet as Piphros , uttering a shrill scream , retreated out of the door . |
| 23 | I must admit I kept him tied up for longer than I was advised as I wanted to make sure he was capable of moving about safely as he invariably would want to look out of the door and then go back to his food . |
| 24 | There was mass saluting , mass mumbling and mass pouring out of the door . |
| 25 | Katze ducked out of the door , keeping his head down . |
| 26 | But Isabel Lavender walked out of the door , the envelope in her handbag , without a further word , of acknowledgment or thanks . |
| 27 | Danielle was all smiles in the arms of her beloved nanny and much to my distress did not have the good grace to shed a single tear as I walked out of the door and out of her life … for a whole day . |
| 28 | ‘ Ours was the kind of business where the major assets walked out of the door each evening and went home . |
| 29 | Willie turned quickly away and walked out of the door , his ears smarting . |
| 30 | He walked out of the door and , I thought , into the fields . |