Example sentences of "open [conj] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to cause embarrassment to his side of the room , but a sense of doors opening and light coming in to mine ( p. 41 ) . |
| 2 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 3 | The doors opened and Juliet stepped out . |
| 4 | As she approached the front entrance , the door suddenly opened and Eleanor came out . |
| 5 | Then the door opened and Mum walked in . |
| 6 | Staring at the door , Ellie seemed quite unable to tear her eyes away as it slowly opened and Feargal walked in . |
| 7 | The door opened and Sheila came in . |
| 8 | ’ The door opened and Catherine stood there , eyes red-rimmed , a handkerchief clutched in her hand . |
| 9 | I was in a deep embrace with a Rumanian mortarman when the door opened and Gibeau walked in . |
| 10 | The door opened and Lionel came in . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you remember , baby , last September how you held me ti-ight each and every ni-ight ? ’ , they sang as the back door opened and Nick came in , a bottle of wine in each hand . |
| 12 | I had finally resolved to stage a roof coup , to climb on to one of the forbidden roofs iii the probably vain hope that the prospect of being left behind might change Melinda 's views , when suddenly a metal door opened and arms reached down to pull us up . |
| 13 | They both looked up together as the door opened and Madeleine came hesitantly forward . |
| 14 | It was almost two o'clock when her door opened and Rob looked round . |
| 15 | The door opened and Jim came in and closed it . |
| 16 | As luck would have it , when she was certain that , shiny-faced and wet-headed , she must look about her worst , it was at that moment that the outer door opened and Ven came in . |
| 17 | ‘ Here , ‘ she said , ‘ I managed to get some soap at — ‘ — The bedroom door opened and Surkov burst in . |
| 18 | When suddenly the door opened and Harry stood there . |
| 19 | Here she is , ’ he said , as the front door of the house opened and Margrida came out to greet them . |
| 20 | The door to the living room opened and Rodney came in . |
| 21 | The door opened and Adam came in . |
| 22 | The door of the pillbox opened and Cawthorne stepped out , so close to me that if the wind had changed I could have sniffed his after-shave . |
| 23 | At that moment the caravan door behind Anna opened and Alamena came out . |
| 24 | The pub door opened and Dod stalked in . |
| 25 | The door opened and David stood there , a tray in his hands . |
| 26 | She stifled the sound as the crew room door opened and Kosi walked in . |
| 27 | At this moment the door opened and Rafiq came in . |
| 28 | Gerald Sutherland , 41 , said : ‘ For a few seconds the doors were shut and people were really panicking , then they opened and passengers rushed out as quickly as they could . |
| 29 | The door to the cow-shed opened and Carrie stood there . |
| 30 | The space beside her was empty , and she felt a keen sense of loss that was instantly alleviated when the door opened and Michele came in , carrying a breakfast-tray . |