Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been beaten , threatened with knee-capping , burned on the neck with a cigarette and invited to jump from the open door of the speeding vehicle during the journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne . |
| 2 | And as the last shots were being fired , the Syrian tank came to rest outside the very door of the building which housed Lebanon 's ‘ democratic ’ parliament . |
| 3 | " Ah , excuse me , They both turned to look at the winding-stair door , where the small attendant was peeking round the side , most of its body hidden in the twisted darkness beyond . |
| 4 | Not knowing how to deal with it , she began to walk towards the front door . |
| 5 | Blanche rolled away and started to run towards the front door . |
| 6 | She unhooked her cloak collar as we had to wait at the outer door of Marcus whilst two porters wheeled out an empty accident trolley . |
| 7 | But Donald , to judge from the size of the congregation - they were three deep in the aisles and old Mr Donovan from 21b ( ‘ I fought two wars for you lot ’ ) had to wait outside the double doors — Donald was not experiencing what the French sociologist called the Lonely Death . |