Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] door [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ash privies were an improvement , as they were built above ground level and cemented at the bottom ; ash was thrown in at the front and the contents withdrawn through a door at the back . |
| 2 | Have , in the classic phrase of Raymond Chandler , a man come in the door with a gun , make your detective them run for his life or chase the gun-toting man . |
| 3 | So , from time to time , " have a man come in the door with a gun " , as Raymond Chandler famously said , or have another murder committed , as Dame Agatha famously did . |
| 4 | Dr McNab had Come to the door of his ward for a few moments to watch the heating of the bath-water ; then with a sigh and a shake of his head he had retired inside again . |
| 5 | But they had come to the door of her apartment and the moment was here and now , impossible to delay . |
| 6 | Endill fitted special wheels so the catapult base could be pushed through the door on its side . |
| 7 | They 'd served their purpose , as a handwritten note pushed through the door on the Saturday afternoon had shown ; Mr Sampson — Appreciate your haste and will get things moving as quickly as I can for you . |
| 8 | He sprang up at once and made for the door as if he 'd been propositioned by a dirty old man in a public convenience . |
| 9 | Instead of a person looking across the room to the door there is a groping in the dark so that a painstaking progress is made towards the door through constant reference to each piece of furniture . |
| 10 | Entering such a store is to enter an intriguing musty lair containing rows of cheap clothes in either blue or olive green , and where you will be greeted by a stab in the eye with an ice-axe that has hung behind the door since the 60s . |
| 11 | The oak refectory table , which sat thirty and came from a monastery in the Tuscan hills , had been moved near the door to the kitchen . |
| 12 | She ran down the track as if the hounds of death were at her heels and struggled with the door of the jeep , snatched at the steering-wheel , fumbled with the ignition . |
| 13 | The tomb of the founder can be seen beside the door into the sacristy . |
| 14 | How do you think your customers feel if their name is incorrectly spelt on a letter you send them , if the chrome is scratched on the door of the new car , if the pen does n't work properly ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The prime minister is met at the door of the Palace at 6.30 on Tuesday evenings by the Queen 's private secretary , and ushered into the royal drawing room by a footman . |
| 17 | Once he went to the house in Stone Alley and was met at the door by Maggie Byrne , but she only wanted to talk about the undersized child in her arms whose life he had saved . |
| 18 | I was met at the door by the commander of the bodyguard , who introduced me to the domestic staff — the cooks , the maids , the rest of the bodyguard and the gardener . |
| 19 | Sometimes the dog scratched at the door to be let in . |
| 20 | Katherine Mansfield describes the noise made by the door as a click . |
| 21 | Children and parents were crowded about the door into the street . |
| 22 | If it was courage , his face had expressed indifference , but his back had conveyed desperation , while he had slid through the door with his body touching the wall . |
| 23 | ( The old , more correct name , Police Court , is still emblazoned above the door of the city 's main court-room . ) |
| 24 | I ran upstairs , pausing by the back stairwell window to watch my father disappear round the dune before the bridge , ran up the stairs , got to the door to the study and twisted the handle briskly . |
| 25 | Any remaining tickets can be bought at the door on the night of the demonstration . |
| 26 | ‘ Fine , ’ D'Arcy said and waited until Ahn had retreated behind the door with Czarina . |
| 27 | He kept a set of bags packed inside the door of Downing Street , so he could escape at the earliest opportunity to the grouse moors or trout streams . |
| 28 | The ARP warden , out of work since 1930 and now a man of standing with his steel helmet , army-style respirator and dangling whistle , banged on the door of number five pleading through the letterbox with its occupant . |
| 29 | She was already rising to her feet when Gerard the butler taped on the door before opening it . |
| 30 | A flimsy flush door with a hollow core needs to be replaced by a door of more solid construction . |