Example sentences of "[vb past] through [art] [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tottered through the open door . |
| 2 | She does n't know how he got through the main doors and an electronically operated gate to get in to the courtyard where the car is always left unlocked . |
| 3 | Blanche tumbled through the front door of her flat just after eleven o'clock . |
| 4 | It was certainly taller than the other buildings in Anani 's main street and , despite its shabby exterior , I could sense the air of warmth and welcome the moment I passed through the front door . |
| 5 | Julie waited outside while Donna and Langton passed through the last door into the vault itself . |
| 6 | Lastly , he and Massingham passed through the open door to the right of the fireplace , careful not to brush against Harry 's body , and explored the kitchen . |
| 7 | She peered through the open door . |
| 8 | Margaret had two friends in supervising the children downstairs , and they were both rather surprised when first the midwife and a student and then Margaret 's husband crashed through the front door . |
| 9 | She bolted through the open door , and all the time dreaded the touch of his hand on her shoulder , stopping her . |
| 10 | Those pants of his were around his knees when he slammed through the double doors of the brownstone , and around his ankles as he stumbled at speed up the first flight of stairs . |
| 11 | She came through the front door of the shop and was a little surprised at not seeing her husband behind the counter . |
| 12 | His neighbour came through the front door of the house to the right . |
| 13 | As he came through the front door he had picked up his post . |
| 14 | When the daily help came through the back door and into the kitchen , she found Beth sitting at the table , breathless and dishevelled . |
| 15 | Tom O'Neill came through the revolving doors on a blast of icy air and stepped out on the other side into a blanket of almost oppressive warmth . |
| 16 | Make-up could work wonders , though , and she was just putting the finishing touches to her lipstick when Travis came through the connecting door . |
| 17 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
| 18 | A chill wind came through the open doors to the balcony . |
| 19 | The two boys , shrieking excitedly , chased it around the terrace , panicking it further , and to escape them it darted through the open doors into the palais . |
| 20 | When he reappeared she gestured through the open door . |
| 21 | As the party filed through the front door , the girl called out , ‘ Cheerio , Beth . |
| 22 | He padded through the hall , up the four flights of stairs to the little landing where you either went straight ahead and out onto the battlements , or ducked through the wee door into the observatory . |
| 23 | The armed guards who had escorted the combatants into the arena retreated through the flush-fitting doors , which they closed and locked behind them . |
| 24 | Blind panic now ruled him ; he raced through the connecting door into the shop , ransacked the till and then hurriedly retreated through the back door , locking it and throwing the key into the ditch . |
| 25 | Gusts of rain and snow flurried through the opened door as the shape scrabbled on the floor . |
| 26 | Blind panic now ruled him ; he raced through the connecting door into the shop , ransacked the till and then hurriedly retreated through the back door , locking it and throwing the key into the ditch . |
| 27 | Maxim got up and walked through the inner door . |
| 28 | The first person she met when she walked through the backstage door was Josh , and , if the situation had n't been so terrible , his expression — which somehow managed to combine outrage , amazement and sheer blessed relief — would have been positively comical . |
| 29 | We walked through the front door and into the bar . |
| 30 | He walked through the communicating door into his own room , leaving it open while he dressed . |