Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |
| 2 | THE estranged wife of a cheating council boss told last night how she took his £22,000 Mercedes and rammed it into the front doors of the town hall where he works . |
| 3 | The 28year-old blonde jumped into his Hregistered Mercedes and rammed it into the front doors of Gosport town hall in Hampshire . |
| 4 | Sheepishly he collected them from the back door and they started out again . |
| 5 | She left her second cup of tea , and she followed me to the front door . |
| 6 | I followed him out the back door . |
| 7 | He nodded and followed her through the back door into the kitchen . |
| 8 | Captain Meredith observed her from the open door , as did Miss Jarman . |
| 9 | She grabbed my arm and pulled me to the outer door . |
| 10 | Happy or not , Tod preceded her through the front door . |
| 11 | She watched him through the open door , saw him click on the gallery light — tall , virile , handsome , strong … |
| 12 | He took Laura by the arm and guided her through the revolving doors . |
| 13 | When she came back , Phyllis and Peter met her at the back door . |
| 14 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 15 | His mother met him at the back door . |
| 16 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 17 | Lily saw him to the front door . |
| 18 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 19 | God was clearly on her side and she made it to the living-room door without a hitch . |
| 20 | As when they wheeled you through the swinging door . |
| 21 | The party was over and the house was in darkness when he pulled up in the courtyard and accompanied her through the front door into the hall . |
| 22 | And all she could think of , as she rose to her feet and politely accompanied him to the front door , was that , suddenly , she did not want him to leave . |
| 23 | She had hold of his hand , she marched him to the front door . |
| 24 | Much to my surprise , Karen greeted me at the front door with a glass of champagne in her hand and , still more unusual , a smile on her face . |
| 25 | I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open . |
| 26 | Scooping her up in his arms , he carried her towards the front door , easily unlatched it , flicked a switch , kicked the door shut behind him , and carried her into the bedroom . |
| 27 | He grabbed hold of Steve by the scruff of the neck , half lifted , half dragged him to the front door . |
| 28 | He tried protesting to Selkirk , who simply struck him across the mouth and pushed him through the metal-studded door . |