Example sentences of "door in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a knock on the door in the early hours of the morning , she had curlers in her hair , and my father , thinking it was for him , told her not to panic . |
| 2 | Carl from upstairs got arrested too , and he said that Ibrahim was screaming all night in the room next to him in the prison , and when they opened the door in the morning , he 'd scratched all the skin off of his face . |
| 3 | The hops were spread on a horsehair cloth laid on the battens , access to this upper level being gained through a high-level door in the side of the kiln . |
| 4 | It is commonplace for me to step outside the door in the morning intending to do one particular task , and then to come back in for a lunchtime bowl of soup having done three or four entirely different jobs of maintenance or repair . |
| 5 | For the Liberal Democrats , Mr David Steel said : ‘ The feelings of people at what happened last night really vary from unease to repugnance that a British government should stoop to use a device which we have consistently condemned in others — namely the knock on the door in the middle of the night . ’ |
| 6 | The door in the back end of the tractor-shed was off this . |
| 7 | Dot could hear the landlady listening to her radio next door in the kitchen . |
| 8 | To know with certainty whether one 's life had been considered good or bad would be a comfort , but even more satisfying would be to find there in the book the answers to the little unsolved mysteries of everyday life ; to read what really happened clearly and truly , like a watchmaker who opens the little door in the front of a grandfather clock and looks inside . |
| 9 | More than once she has unbolted the front door in the night and gone out in her nightdress . |
| 10 | Directly beneath my grandmother 's room was the cellar , approached through a white-painted door in the sitting-room . |
| 11 | A large mug of tea vanished in a single gulp , then the man and woman moved out of sight towards the outer door in the kitchen 's lower corner . |
| 12 | Two stone steps and a low wide door in the far wall led up to a smaller kitchen , and beyond that was the gloomy pantry where trussed birds and enormous rounds of butter and cheese were stacked on cold stone slabs . |
| 13 | The door in the corner opened , and Smallfry swept into the room wearing a glossy black costume with white fur trims and decorated combs in her hair . |
| 14 | To my delight , we stopped at a bothy , a long white cabin with a small door in the middle , deep-set windows and a roof of orange thatch . |
| 15 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 16 | The front door in the tower leads to a two-storey hall , with all the rooms leading directly off it , without the usual dank corridors . |
| 17 | Next door in the hotel stable . |
| 18 | Next door in the hotel stable . |
| 19 | He says that , ‘ DTX-2 , like its biogenetic relatives acts as an ‘ on-off ’ switch for certain phosphatase enzymes and could open a door in the cell for us to look inside and see what is going on ’ . |
| 20 | Its precise siting relative to the house will depend on the positions of windows and door in the side wall of the house ; you obviously want to avoid covering windows but a courtesy door entering the garage could actually be a bonus on wet nights ( note that the door must be a fire door in this situation ) . |
| 21 | It was one of those houses children draw : a door in the middle , matching windows each side , sloping roof and a chimney sticking up . |
| 22 | Bragg crossed to a door in the middle of the opposite wall , and entered the examination room . |
| 23 | She disappeared through a door in the back of the office . |
| 24 | ‘ What exactly is a foundry ? ’ said Robyn , as they reached a small , scarred wooden door in the corrugated-iron wall . |
| 25 | Pool Bank is a fine old farmhouse built in the shape of an L. The gallery is at the back of the house above the back door in the yard . |
| 26 | I remembered some graffiti scratched on the inside of a toilet door in the medina at Fez : . |
| 27 | Inside there are five courtyards , one of which contained the family apartments and was originally connected to the garden and the great sala terrena by a door in the wall facing you . |
| 28 | Enter by the porter 's lodge ; if no one is there go to the door in the first courtyard on the left and someone is bound to come to your aid . |
| 29 | She drifted , quietly invisible , among the clansfolk going in and out the great gate , past the sentries , across the courtyard to the door in the far corner . |
| 30 | This variety creates a very different kind of street to the large corporate headquarters running the length of a block with a single front door in the centre . |