Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the dispute my technique was to go through the front door — I refused to be smuggled in — and then ask for a deputation of the demonstrators to come and talk to me . |
| 2 | In other words , he was supposed to slip through the back door into the country , unseen , unheard and unsung . |
| 3 | He had been beaten , threatened with knee-capping , burned on the neck with a cigarette and invited to jump from the open door of the speeding vehicle during the journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne . |
| 4 | He likes to arrive with all the razzmatazz , while I prefer to slip in the back door quietly . |
| 5 | Nina had no time to answer as the main doors opened and Julie Weatherstone , one of the personnel officers , came into the centre accompanied by a tall man . |
| 6 | Hector had run ahead to hover by the front door , whining a little . |
| 7 | It was nice , however , to walk through the front door and retire to my bed , I was home and I had survived . |
| 8 | Not knowing how to deal with it , she began to walk towards the front door . |
| 9 | The Watch had ensured this by giving them ample time to escape via the back door , a neat compromise between caution and justice that benefited all parties . |
| 10 | People used to bash on the closed doors if they could n't get in . ’ |
| 11 | " Ah , excuse me , They both turned to look at the winding-stair door , where the small attendant was peeking round the side , most of its body hidden in the twisted darkness beyond . |
| 12 | At the same time , colour two pieces of fondant trimmings red and yellow , and model into small rosettes to go above the stable doors . |
| 13 | During the next few days I lived in terror , doors locked , ready to fly — to leave through the front door if Aunt Louise came to the back , or out of the back door if I saw her coming down the path . |
| 14 | I 'm going to have to sleep across the front door so you ca n't . ’ |
| 15 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 16 | Some did , some had them full and some did n't and er there was a toilet and a a toilet and a coal house across the yard and then we used to go in the back door and there was a tiny little kitchen . |
| 17 | Blanche rolled away and started to run towards the front door . |
| 18 | And as the last shots were being fired , the Syrian tank came to rest outside the very door of the building which housed Lebanon 's ‘ democratic ’ parliament . |
| 19 | As she lifted her hand to knock on the open door to signal her return , she heard Mrs Browning 's light , high voice say , ‘ I am tired of her , Robert , truly I am . |
| 20 | This could perhaps be that the new doctor 's surgery is nearer , or easier for her to get to , has less steps to climb to the front door , or that she has a neighbour on his list who would accompany her to the surgery . |
| 21 | But you start , or we like to start at the front door of what we call . |
| 22 | Then , if you can manage to go to the front door , open it , before you pass out or feel faint , or ring a neighbour who has a key . |
| 23 | But Donald , to judge from the size of the congregation - they were three deep in the aisles and old Mr Donovan from 21b ( ‘ I fought two wars for you lot ’ ) had to wait outside the double doors — Donald was not experiencing what the French sociologist called the Lonely Death . |
| 24 | But he was too proud to plead at the right doors . |
| 25 | It 's ironic that a prostitute can get a hotel room by bribing someone but if you 're a respectable woman you are likely to be arrested if you even try to get through the front door . |
| 26 | We 'd been trying to see someone there for months , but although I 'd delivered petitions , I 'd never managed to get through the front door . |
| 27 | Three for the tunnel , two to break through the outer door . |
| 28 | She unhooked her cloak collar as we had to wait at the outer door of Marcus whilst two porters wheeled out an empty accident trolley . |
| 29 | He was about to move towards the back door when Mrs Robson appeared . |
| 30 | The present private health service companies like B U P A , that already , are all ready to move into the front door and take over , so this year my first report on the N H S could be replaced in nineteen ninety four on the report on the private health care industry unless we take action . |