Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just then , someone knocked at the front door . |
| 2 | After breakfast the next day , someone knocked at the front door . |
| 3 | Ten minutes ago I knocked at the front door , waited in the street . |
| 4 | Probably be glad to get rid of her , she thought gloomily , then looked up sharply as someone rapped at the back door . |
| 5 | He looked up as someone rattled at the front door of the shop ; irritably he waved them away . |
| 6 | I stood at the front door of No. 5 , watching Dana straddle his bike , adjust his backpack and wave cheerily to me as he roared off down the road . |
| 7 | I stood at the front door for a long time being soaked by the rain . |
| 8 | I stood at the front door and it was around my ankles , within five minutes it was around my knees , ’ said Joanne . |
| 9 | A twelve-year-old , who listened at the living-room door to what was going on , wanted to run , but knew he 'd be followed . |
| 10 | They arrived at the sliding door entrance to the bridge . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had blinds on the window and said she would n't be long when he knocked at the locked door . |
| 13 | He glanced at the main door . |
| 14 | Will the limbless Mr Azul think I 'm the guy he saw at the front door ? |
| 15 | He paused at the front door as she showed him out . |