Example sentences of "she knocked on " in BNC.
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1 | One night I remember , she knocked on the door at Denmark Street just as we were packing up . |
2 | When she knocked on the door of Back Clough Dale Cottage , she had been afraid but in control . |
3 | Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened . |
4 | She now hurried round the corner and into the yard and there she knocked on the back staircase door . |
5 | She could n't make out Eileen 's answer but she muttered , ‘ Eejit , is right , ’ before she knocked on the door . |
6 | He was a little way behind her when she knocked on the study door . |
7 | She knocked on his door and asked if he would be kind enough to show her the famous bird . |
8 | She knocked on the door of the dreaded private study . |
9 | She knocked on a second door and opened it to reveal twenty children of about Flora 's age at old-fashioned desks with inkwells sunk into the top right-hand corners of the lids . |
10 | The sour smell from the communal rubbish bins in the alley below drifted up through a broken window and Carrie grimaced as she knocked on the door . |
11 | She knocked on the door . |
12 | She knocked on Ratchette 's door . |
13 | There was nowhere else to go , so she knocked on the door . |
14 | She knocked on Miles ' door . |
15 | While Greg waited on the landing she knocked on one of the bedroom doors . |
16 | But there was no answer when she knocked on Louise 's door , nor when she tried another new friend 's door at the far end of the passage , and this was so discouraging that she went back to her own room and cried till her blue eyes wre red-rimmed and swollen . |
17 | Yes but you see at this time the girl took up her tea tray and , and when she took , she knocked on the door and when she opened the door the Manageress was lying on the floor |
18 | Jill Stewart eyed her with a certain degree of amusement as she knocked on one of the doors . |
19 | Feeling ridiculously nervous , she knocked on the door and waited , but no one came . |
20 | She knocked on Nelson 's cabin door . |
21 | She knocked on the study door and put her head round it . |
22 | She knocked on the door she said . |
23 | Margaret , Margaret Thatcher , she knocked on our door and actually came in , you would n't believe it she was talking like it |
24 | And she knocked on the door had this crap conversation and then buggered off . |