Example sentences of "[vb base] at the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knock at the wood-plank door and it sounds as empty as a politician 's promise . |
| 2 | I climb the stairs and hesitate at the front door . |
| 3 | ‘ 'T IS all very well putting on your old gown and pretending to be a serving-girl so we could pass that dolt at the solar door . |
| 4 | Look at the front door . |
| 5 | For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys . |
| 6 | Look at the back door . |
| 7 | I glance at the front door : no one showing yet . |
| 8 | but when ya , when you stand at the front door and er there 's a blower breeze and it 's cold , if you put your hand round the door like that , you can feel a draught , you can feel it colder than the you know and the letter box , the draught but if you take that and put a curtain up , it 'll keep the cold out , you 've stopped the draught so you 're gon na win |