Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were met at the front door by a delirious spaniel , who clearly had no idea of funeral decorum , and they proceeded into the front room , where Bill Clough switched on a bulging orangey imitation-coal electric fire , and then went to a horrible drinks cabinet — all plastic and flashing lights . |
| 2 | Cowley was met at the front door by an elderly , but still handsome woman , dressed in trouser suit and a very westernised poncho . |
| 3 | Cameron was staring at the shut door . |
| 4 | ‘ Addressed to myself , it was delivered at the back door this morning by a manservant . |
| 5 | Mme Guérigny was standing at the front door , her head pushed back , shouting up to the attic window for Jean-Claude . |
| 6 | A detective-constable was standing at the front door with the detached watchfulness of a man paid to endure boredom but ready to leap into action should , unaccountably , the boredom end . |
| 7 | Now I was standing at the closed door listening to his absence . |