Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] at the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kitchen looked so clean and bright , and the ladies so kind and sensible , that I dared to knock at the door . |
| 2 | I did knock at the door , then , when there was no response , took a couple of steps through into a passage floored with stone slabs and containing nothing but some buckets of coal and a rack of ancient clothes , gardening clobber by the look of it . |
| 3 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 4 | I stood thinking at the door . |
| 5 | It can also revive memories of childhood tantrums and distress , locking oneself in the lavatory or bathroom and shutting out the adults who came battering at the door . |
| 6 | Anyway she 'd knocked at the door and er , I said to her oh I do n't have to buy anything and she said no , no and erm |
| 7 | So cos apparently , while he was on the phone she came knocking at the door then |
| 8 | Again he was the charming young man who had knocked at the door just ten minutes earlier . |
| 9 | Catesby instructed us to take a bench leaning against the far wall and , though the space was narrow , we began to pound at the door like besiegers breaking into a castle . |
| 10 | And they forgot to knock at the door and make themselves known to the people inside . |
| 11 | They scattered for safety as a coach pulled up ; it had begun its final tumultuous dash from Trafalgar Square just as they had hammered at the door . |
| 12 | They stood looking at the door , wondering what form the knocking threat would take . |
| 13 | They stood listening at the door as Gerald Hussey made a short speech of welcome ; then there were further exchanges in low voices which Sara could not make out . |
| 14 | But he wanted to represent a protean form now , however impossible ; wanted to find a way to fix what he 'd seen at the door of his hotel room , when Pie'oh'pah 's many faces had been shuffled in front of him like cards in an illusionist 's deck . |
| 15 | And , the children were in there erm doing their P E and er he went stood at the door and watched them and he was quite happy . |
| 16 | He did n't look at me , he stood looking at the doors . |