Example sentences of "show the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , you may be shown the door with a few sharp words more in keeping with a tyrannical consultant than your friendly neighbourhood GP . |
| 2 | Since he was shown the door by United , McGrath has confounded medical opinion — and Ferguson 's — and become widely regarded as one of the world 's outstanding centre-backs with his displays . |
| 3 | It did n't , and she was shown the door . |
| 4 | Until then 21-year-old Bennett , shown the door at Newcastle on a free transfer two seasons ago , had produced a brilliant one-man show of defiance . |
| 5 | The former England cricketers have been shown the door at Old Trafford just 24 hours after the departure of manager Alan Ormrod . |
| 6 | ‘ 20th Century Boy ’ is the moment where glam meets rock , where the oafish Sweet were shown the door and David Bowie 's hopes of being The Velvet Underground ( only attractive ) were dashed against the bejewelled rocks of his own ego forever . |
| 7 | That way you get all the help and co-operation we can provide , any other way and you get shown the door . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Everex chairman and CEO Steve Hui was shown the door December 23 , replaced by Jack Kenney , reportedly a restructuring expert . |
| 9 | No details were discussed : ‘ I was n't there more than a couple of minutes , but I did n't feel rushed and I am not quite sure how I was shown the door . |
| 10 | Far from flinging him out , you would rather discuss what has gone wrong and try to put it right ( apart from women in the North , who feel more strongly that their errant man should be shown the door ) . |
| 11 | Peter , inexperienced but the most likeable of colleagues , had just been shown the door . |
| 12 | Then , however , you really must be prepared to stick to your principles and beliefs because throughout the coming months you simply have to know whom to trust and who must be shown the door . |
| 13 | That 's 5million for two defenders and two more crowd favourites shown the door — Steve Redmond and Neil Pointon. push Pointon , in fact , was one of the stars of the City side last season but that did n't bother Reid . |
| 14 | When he learned the identity of his two customers , he said , ‘ I run a respectable ale-house here , even though many of my customers would be shown the door if they went to one of your big city taverns . |
| 15 | In fact , the three of us , all with duty-free Marlboros well alight , were shown the door in no uncertain terms . |
| 16 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 17 | I deserved to be shown the door . |
| 18 | Some of these men had been loyal workers at Albion for decades yet they were shown the door within a matter of minutes . |
| 19 | Some of these men had been loyal workers at Albion for decades yet they were shown the door within a matter of minutes . |
| 20 | Hard-won working conditions and employment protection are now routinely jettisoned by many cowboy operators , secure in the knowledge that if workers complain they can be shown the door , outside which is a four-deep queue of would-be replacements willing to thole all manner of demands provided there is the prospect of regular work at whatever depressed rates . |
| 21 | Everton have not had a playmaker since Peter Reid was shown the door . |