Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] at the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A small crowd had knotted at the door where the ambassador was greeting guests . |
| 8 | Again he was the charming young man who had knocked at the door just ten minutes earlier . |