Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | A loud banging at the front door stopped both of them in their tracks . |
| 2 | Constable Laurie gave evidence that on 5th August he entered at the back door of 149 Chatham Street , that he received from her 1/9d. , and that she received from him a betting slip . |
| 3 | ‘ Mornin' , ’ said Tom , appearing at the back door . |
| 4 | I knock at the wood-plank door and it sounds as empty as a politician 's promise . |
| 5 | He was cut short by a loud knocking at the front door . |
| 6 | It was the third day after she had dressed , gone out , without wearing her underclothes , into her car , driving on the main road through Tadley , driving all the way to Kingsclere , knocking at the front door of the home of a woman who was almost a stranger , going into a house that she hardly knew . |
| 7 | I climb the stairs and hesitate at the front door . |
| 8 | ‘ 'T IS all very well putting on your old gown and pretending to be a serving-girl so we could pass that dolt at the solar door . |
| 9 | not fair on a animal as I say , he 's bound to be trapped at the bloody door for hours before anybody come in and |
| 10 | He did n't ring the bell so we just stood there looking at the massive door . |
| 11 | In the reception area , Angelica gestured at the closed door of Georgina 's office . |
| 12 | Cowley was met at the front door by an elderly , but still handsome woman , dressed in trouser suit and a very westernised poncho . |
| 13 | They were met at the front door by a delirious spaniel , who clearly had no idea of funeral decorum , and they proceeded into the front room , where Bill Clough switched on a bulging orangey imitation-coal electric fire , and then went to a horrible drinks cabinet — all plastic and flashing lights . |
| 14 | Look at the front door . |
| 15 | For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys . |
| 16 | Look at the back door . |
| 17 | " Ah , excuse me , They both turned to look at the winding-stair door , where the small attendant was peeking round the side , most of its body hidden in the twisted darkness beyond . |
| 18 | Paige frowned at the closed door . |
| 19 | I glance at the front door : no one showing yet . |
| 20 | They arrived at the sliding door entrance to the bridge . |
| 21 | The next morning Bathsheba and her maid Liddy were dusting some books , when a visitor arrived at the front door . |
| 22 | Ronni was still fizzing with indignation — how dared he make fun of her ? — when , sure enough , a car arrived at the front door , laden with dishes dovered in tin foil . |
| 23 | When Ruth and Miss Beard arrived at the rear door of the house , the carriage was already waiting . |
| 24 | but when ya , when you stand at the front door and er there 's a blower breeze and it 's cold , if you put your hand round the door like that , you can feel a draught , you can feel it colder than the you know and the letter box , the draught but if you take that and put a curtain up , it 'll keep the cold out , you 've stopped the draught so you 're gon na win |
| 25 | When she had the hackles high on her shoulders , when she whined and scratched at the back door , then the house was watched . |
| 26 | Probably be glad to get rid of her , she thought gloomily , then looked up sharply as someone rapped at the back door . |
| 27 | Tom knocked at the front door but there was no reply . |
| 28 | A little later , Derek knocked at the front door . |
| 29 | Just then , someone knocked at the front door . |
| 30 | After breakfast the next day , someone knocked at the front door . |