Example sentences of "door [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 O'Hara knocked on Meredith 's door during the first interval .
2 The next county was Denbigh , in those days before the ‘ bigger-is-better ’ shuffle took place , and we arrived there just in time to have the door of the first pub shut in our faces with the sort of clank against which pleas and arguments would be obviously unrewarding .
3 On the other side was the back door of the first house in the Dwyer Street terrace , which ended down the road with Sunil 's at No. 16 .
4 She left the room and went rapidly to the door of the first form .
5 Enter by the porter 's lodge ; if no one is there go to the door in the first courtyard on the left and someone is bound to come to your aid .
6 A flight of stone steps gives access and a door from the first floor of the inn has been added .
7 The original door from the first floor is now a window .
8 It has fine balusters and a door to the first floor room behind .
9 When Penman opened the door to the first knock , Aunt Emily said , ‘ You will see how easy it is . ’
10 The door to the first room stood open .
11 He felt like an infant staggering uncertainly out of doors for the first time into the infinitude of the universe .
12 When the Reading Room opened its doors for the first time in the city of St Louis , Missouri , it became the world 's first literary brothel .
13 Foxhall Stadium opens its doors for the first time on Sunday ( 2.30 pm ) with the Bangers and new formula stock cars .
14 The Irish counterpart to a London rock landmark , will open its doors for the first time in the Temple Bar area of Dublin in early December .
15 By Tuesday , he was able to venture out of doors for the first time since arriving home , late and ailing , on Thursday night .
16 The Town Cinema opens its doors for the first time in more than thirty years tonight .
17 A new club which aims to give homeless and unemployed people what could be their only good meal of the day has opened its doors for the first time .
18 At Europe 's largest indoor shopping centre , the MetroCentre , Gateshead , Tyne and Wear , more than 50,000 passed through the doors in the first hour , the first of 130,000 during the day .
19 ‘ I 've been round the doors since the first day of the campaign , ’ says Lord Dormand .
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