Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder whether the same view would apply if Neil Young or Van Morrison came knocking at the door . ’ |
| 2 | The poor , sick , bereaved , came knocking at the door . |
| 3 | A small opportunity arose when Lizzie came knocking at the door for the ceremonial delivery of two silver-bound shoulder sprays , one , a gardenia , the other an orchid , and a card which said : From Robert . |
| 4 | So cos apparently , while he was on the phone she came knocking at the door then |
| 5 | But he wanted to represent a protean form now , however impossible ; wanted to find a way to fix what he 'd seen at the door of his hotel room , when Pie'oh'pah 's many faces had been shuffled in front of him like cards in an illusionist 's deck . |
| 6 | Anyway she 'd knocked at the door and er , I said to her oh I do n't have to buy anything and she said no , no and erm |
| 7 | It can also revive memories of childhood tantrums and distress , locking oneself in the lavatory or bathroom and shutting out the adults who came battering at the door . |
| 8 | And they forgot to knock at the door and make themselves known to the people inside . |
| 9 | Luke dropped his grip on her and turned to glance at the door , as if he intended to go and put his question to the man himself . |
| 10 | Catesby instructed us to take a bench leaning against the far wall and , though the space was narrow , we began to pound at the door like besiegers breaking into a castle . |
| 11 | Then the princess 's soldiers began to batter at the doors of the wooden fortress with their axes . |
| 12 | At once he ran to the house and began scratching at the door . |
| 13 | The first Russian to mount the wall fell at once to a bullet from one of Thiercelin 's men , but now a slavonic deluge swamped the wall in a wave of green and grey , bayonets fixed , overran the Frenchmen on the terrace and began smashing at the door . |
| 14 | This was the moment when Melody chose to knock at the door and Anna 's head jerked back , away from him . |
| 15 | And , the children were in there erm doing their P E and er he went stood at the door and watched them and he was quite happy . |
| 16 | I did knock at the door , then , when there was no response , took a couple of steps through into a passage floored with stone slabs and containing nothing but some buckets of coal and a rack of ancient clothes , gardening clobber by the look of it . |
| 17 | The kitchen looked so clean and bright , and the ladies so kind and sensible , that I dared to knock at the door . |
| 18 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 19 | For the moment it is enough to observe that the Historie/ Geschichte dichotomy could very easily end up looking rather like Lessing 's between the accidental truths of history and the necessary truths of reason , or Fichte 's between the historical and the metaphysical , and thus lead to a position open to the same charge of Gnosticism that Baur had laid at the door of Hegel and Schleiermacher . |
| 20 | After he had reached home , two men in police uniforms had appeared at the door , waved a piece of paper which they said was a warrant for his arrest . |
| 21 | Larkin , in his poem , had paused at the door of a village church to make sure there was nothing going on before modestly venturing in as a tourist . |
| 22 | They scattered for safety as a coach pulled up ; it had begun its final tumultuous dash from Trafalgar Square just as they had hammered at the door . |
| 23 | A small crowd had knotted at the door where the ambassador was greeting guests . |
| 24 | Again he was the charming young man who had knocked at the door just ten minutes earlier . |
| 25 | They stood looking at the door , wondering what form the knocking threat would take . |
| 26 | He did n't look at me , he stood looking at the doors . |
| 27 | They stood listening at the door as Gerald Hussey made a short speech of welcome ; then there were further exchanges in low voices which Sara could not make out . |
| 28 | I stood thinking at the door . |