Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] door [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | WHAT a delightful coup by the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden , to open its doors to the Maryinsky Theatre , St Petersburg , in a Royal gala celebrating the Russians ' renaming both the theatre and its city with their original title . |
2 | Pascoe expected to open his door to the present , and found , instead , a face from the past . |
3 | The upper classes , who are just as exotic and who theoretically are of crucial importance for understanding the mechanism of social structure , tend to shut their doors on the enquiring social scientist . |
4 | As a church are we willing to accept the rule of the Prince of Peace and the power of the resurrection or do we prefer to shut our doors to the pains of the poor and pretend they are not there Pause |
5 | A hospital for pensioners that opened almost a hundred years ago is about to close its doors for the last time . |
6 | FOR THE first time in English legal history , judges ' decisions to close their doors to the Press and public have been challenged in the Court of Appeal . |