Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 2 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Despite everything , a lot of burglaries are still carried out via the front door . |
| 6 | As we all dropped to the floor the shifty-eyed character bolted out of the front door and into a cloud of dust and pieces of masonry , caused by the explosions . |
| 7 | They had doubled back and got out of the single-leaf door of the car . |
| 8 | However , the proposals , kicked out of the front door last year , are now coming in through the back . |
| 9 | As it turned out , the principal had caught the other boys , and they were all being marched back in the front door of the school , but Mouse did n't know that . |
| 10 | Later , when it was time to take Eddie back to school , Louise had kissed him at the gate and his father had walked up to the main door with him . |
| 11 | They said no more then , for the coach had pulled up at the main door . |
| 12 | At 10.50 a.m. , Aldrich looked across at the two men who had entered quietly by the same door . |
| 13 | It was Blossom , moving at a brisk trot , great udder swinging , eyes fixed purposefully on the open door behind us . |
| 14 | Last time the fibre-optic and wire-cutter had gone in by the front door ; this time they were to enter by the back . |
| 15 | It is easy to picture how it looked , for the steps and ball-topped garden gate piers to the left of it would have led up to the front door , and there would have been an exact replica of this wing to the far left . |
| 16 | And I remember four stone steps led up to the front door , and we 'd what they called a parlour then . |
| 17 | Luckily he was sitting in a grandfather chair with sturdy arms which would prevent his falling , so I removed the soup bowl , turned his head on one side and rushed out of the front door , picking up our ‘ frog horn ’ on the way . |
| 18 | She slipped off her apron and tripped out of the back door like an eighteen year old . |
| 19 | But he had gone out of the front door , banging it , leaving his shoes on the table which she 'd always believed was bad luck . |
| 20 | And he had gone out by the front door , presumably to present an appearance of normality if he should be seen by any of the family — a late evening stroll before bed being a simple enough amusement — while she could save the whole circuit of the house by using the back door close to the kitchen . |
| 21 | Grooves in the pastureland showed where the drive had swung round to the front door . |
| 22 | In the two days since the men had been gone the girls had become close friends , beginning from the moment Joanna had knocked timidly on the solar door soon after Guy had left . |
| 23 | Now , she was out in the hallway , stationed eagerly near the front door . ’ |
| 24 | She was allowed in by the back door . |
| 25 | I was welcomed in through the front door almost before it was opened , and settled down in front of a Victorian stove that was brimming with hot coals . |
| 26 | They returned two hours later , laden with extra blankets , having been bustled rudely out the back door , out of sight of hotel guests . |
| 27 | Decked in tasselled yellow howdah cloths and ridden by straw-hatted Annamese mahouts perched straddle-legged behind their ears , a dozen elephants lumbered slowly across the flagstones and lined up before the open doors . |
| 28 | The building , the staff and the food were wonderful , but I was n't allowed out of the front door on my own . |
| 29 | Before the war , as my mother would have told you , a workman always knocked twice at the back door before even taking his hat off . |
| 30 | He 'd forgotten to shut up his dogs ; they 'd waited patiently outside the front door . |