Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people do not wish to see what goes on behind the locked doors . |
| 2 | Within a quarter of an hour Thomas was back , hugging himself with pleasure in his own cunning , and they passed together through the little door , and drew it to again after them . |
| 3 | Eddie was staring at her with eyes as hard as granite but all she said was , ‘ You 'll have to go in at the front door . |
| 4 | As I got out I caught the enigmatic Mr Goodson sneaking in through the front door , but if he 'd seen me pull up , he did n't wait to say Hello . |
| 5 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
| 6 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 7 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 8 | One walks through sun and rain , one walks through all kinds of weather to get there , but once sucked inside by the blatting doors , everything is desperately and essentially grey . |
| 9 | Then , whilst resolutely throwing underconsumption out of the window he allows it to creep in through the back door again with his discursive discussion of the role of labour-power as a commodity and its place in the circulation process . |
| 10 | In truth , Cabernet is beginning to creep in by the back door . |
| 11 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 12 | But I think I knew about her and her mother long before I looked them both in the face , or heard about their existence ; knew that the half-understood adult conversations around me , the quarrels about " her " , the litany of " she " , " she " , " she " from behind closed doors made the figure in the New Look coat , hurrying away , wearing the clothes my mother wanted to wear , angry with me yet nervously inviting me to follow , caught finally in the revolving door . |
| 13 | Miss Harker moved quickly to the front door . |
| 14 | In November 1990 , they lined up inside the front door to shake the Majors by the hand ; following an election victory , protocol decrees that Turnbull should lead his colleagues in applause . |
| 15 | ‘ Now th'can go out , ’ he said and went with her into the shadow-filled yard ; one long arm guiding her with relentless force past the lighted windows of the inn , past the well and a small cart , past James Lambert walking shakily towards the back door of the inn , to a dark corner behind a group of empty ale kegs . |
| 16 | Adrian Scanlon insisted on driving up to the front door , once I had opened the gate . |
| 17 | A stray , dingy orange kitten came yowling up to the back door one night . |
| 18 | Declining to lie , she let the priest take her home , planning to swear the maid to secrecy and slip out of the back door again as soon as he had gone . |
| 19 | The van spun off the road into a school fence and trainee decorator Wayne , of Marrick Road , Park End , was catapulted out of the rear doors . |
| 20 | Otherwise , it may be easier for the patient to come out of the back door and walk or be wheeled out through a side gate , if it is all on a level . |
| 21 | ' 'Lo , Olga , ’ she said mechanically and moved to pass out of the same door ; but Mrs Stych wanted to show off her outfit . |
| 22 | Despite everything , a lot of burglaries are still carried out via the front door . |
| 23 | Rain now poured in through the broken window , the wind also whipping through , buffeting Julie as she moved across to the back door . |
| 24 | She stalked away from the front door and it closed softly behind him . |
| 25 | I remember hens , large grey ones , wandering in through the back door . |
| 26 | Looking in through the open door of one , I saw a fat , drunk skinhead in a wheelchair . |
| 27 | He came down to the front door with me . |
| 28 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 29 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 30 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |