Example sentences of "[was/were] standing [prep] the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two men were standing near the main door . |
| 2 | ‘ When I arived he had led his two sisters out and they were standing by the front door . |
| 3 | Springfield himself was standing beside the open door of his car , which he had drawn up on the verge opposite the gates , angled so its headlights were bathing them in a pool of bright luminescence . |
| 4 | Mme Guérigny was standing at the front door , her head pushed back , shouting up to the attic window for Jean-Claude . |
| 5 | A detective-constable was standing at the front door with the detached watchfulness of a man paid to endure boredom but ready to leap into action should , unaccountably , the boredom end . |
| 6 | Now I was standing at the closed door listening to his absence . |
| 7 | Simone was standing by the front door which she held ajar , her hand to her mouth . |
| 8 | When they returned to the hallway , the child was standing by the living-room door , looking as if she might be about to cry . |
| 9 | The girl was standing near the back door , obviously she had not been invited inside . |