Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] to the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two prisoners , in their yellow raincoats , tried to get to the door , but the men in white knocked them to the floor and handcuffed their hands behind their backs . |
| 2 | ‘ I must leave at once ! ’ she whispered , and tried to move to the door . |
| 3 | It was the gentleman who seemed to spring to the door and open it to let the two heavily laden customers out . |
| 4 | The crowd of playgoers began to hurry to the doors , and I ran round to open them . |
| 5 | He began to move to the door , but Anna took his arm . |
| 6 | The young man , Martin Grant , struggling through the throng , managed to get to the door when the sirens and the flashing blue lights outside the window heralded the arrival of uniformed reinforcements . |
| 7 | My leg had gone completely to sleep and I could n't feel it at all , but I managed to hobble to the door , collecting fourpence out of my wallet , and down the stairs to the first landing where the telephone was . |
| 8 | He heard the scrape of the guard 's feet as the man scrabbled to get to the door . |
| 9 | One of the girls had to come to the door to call him . |
| 10 | She wanted to rush to the door and get out into the open air again before she suffocated . |