Example sentences of "door and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sammy stood on the mat shaking his fur by the open door and looking out at the sheets of rain that were now whipping across the graveyard . |
| 2 | ‘ You did n't think of opening your door and looking out into the corridor ? ’ she asked . |
| 3 | Miss Merchiston opened the door and called out in a piercing shriek for Mrs Diggory . |
| 4 | Pepe tapped on the door and came in with two glasses of what looked like rum and cola . |
| 5 | Vitor closed the door and swung back to her . |
| 6 | She unlocked the door and got back in the shower . |
| 7 | Kiah opened the door and got out of the taxi . |
| 8 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |
| 9 | He stopped at the door and stared in for a minute . |
| 10 | There was no sound from below and , carefully , Craig opened a door and stared out into the shabby passageway . |
| 11 | Preston opened the back door and stared out into the garden . |
| 12 | And he stepped calmly towards the door and disappeared out of the house . |
| 13 | And as she lay dying the heavily bloodstained thief pocketed the cash , shut the front door and walked off among rush hour crowds . |
| 14 | Bull O'Malley closed the door and walked back into the kitchen where Peg still sat on the chair , holding the basket on her lap . |
| 15 | window and I sort of pinged the cat 's tray , you know , if I shut the door and walked back in and hid the paint on the side , and on a couple of occasions he was painting that window and suddenly this cat appeared outside |
| 16 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 17 | I closed the door and leant back against it . |
| 18 | He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall . |
| 19 | She paused as she was about to close the door and looked back at him . |
| 20 | Whitlock walked to the door and looked back at Kolchinsky . |
| 21 | She opened the door and looked down at the gutter two feet away and then sighed . |
| 22 | When Lee turned out of the door and looked down to where the battered bird would have landed there was nothing to see but the same old Z-shaped crack in the hard , grey pavingstone and a streak of blood . |
| 23 | Jim thought , ‘ Hello , is someone coming up to keep me company ? ’ and went to the door and looked out down the steps . |
| 24 | She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk . |
| 25 | I left my blanket roll by the door and went around behind the counter and started making out a passenger list and tickets . |
| 26 | ‘ Ignore the barrage balloon , ’ he joked , flattening himself exaggeratedly against the wall as the actors came out of the pass door and went up to their rooms . |
| 27 | Further along the corridor she tapped on her great-grandmother 's door and went in without waiting for permission . |
| 28 | Mike took the initiative , kicked down the door and went in with guns blazing , so to speak , to find — nothing ! |
| 29 | He neatly propped a chair in front of the door and went back about his business , but awareness of him tingled all around Charity — awareness of the way he moved , with such effortless grace , of the way he looked with the wind ravaging his neat curls . |
| 30 | She heard him slam the front room door and went back into the bedroom . |