Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Miss Harker moved quickly to the front door . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Rain now poured in through the broken window , the wind also whipping through , buffeting Julie as she moved across to the back door . |
| 6 | She stalked away from the front door and it closed softly behind him . |
| 7 | He came down to the front door with me . |
| 8 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 9 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He looked up when Donna Frizzell came in through the back door , and was startled to see that her hat was awry and her makeup smudged beyond repair . |
| 12 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 13 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 14 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 15 | Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door . |
| 16 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
| 17 | Vitor strolled over to the open door to look out at the house with its quaint latticed windows , its white-painted shutters , the walls awash with waterfalls of crimson bougainvillaea . |
| 18 | There was no one in the stable or the yard , but when she came close to the back door she could hear voices from the kitchen . |
| 19 | As they drove up to the main door Louise tried not to be emotional . |
| 20 | A late arrival came out between the automatic doors , stared at the queue , walked back inside to join the uniformed chauffeur who had been waiting and holding a card . |
| 21 | It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time . |
| 22 | I came out of the front door and fitted the key into the familiar lock . |
| 23 | As she opened the gate , some people came out of the front door — an elderly couple with Susan behind them . |
| 24 | Peter drove slowly past the gates — the dignified gates through which most of his predecessors had stepped on their way to the church — and , as he did so , the new owner came out of the front door and clearly observed the dawdling and curious car . |
| 25 | She could see lights on inside and men moving about , and as she stood there a policeman in uniform came out of the front door . |
| 26 | On the Tuesday morning he was whistling as he came out of the front door . |
| 27 | He got off the Mini , he that went flying up street , she came out of the next door . |
| 28 | ‘ You came out of the main door ? ’ |
| 29 | Gazzer came out of the main doors of St Mark 's . |
| 30 | She ran back through the kitchen and down the steps into the lower scullery , but when she came out by the back door and looked across to the wall , Tristram was not be seen . |