Example sentences of "i [vb past] the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I unlocked the main door . |
| 2 | I have n't been into her bedroom though I saw some chair legs and a pair of shoes as I passed the half-open door . |
| 3 | I ran back and forth across the street until I found the dirty door . |
| 4 | A cold draught of air was coming from the kitchen and I found the back door to be wide open — and then my horrified glance fell upon Aunt Louise . |
| 5 | The café looked deserted as I approached the front door . |
| 6 | ‘ I used the connecting door . ’ |
| 7 | I felt like Father Christmas as I entered the front door of the cottage to be welcomed like a long-lost son . |
| 8 | I admired the main door of the Catedral Nueva — comparatively new , that is , for it was started in 1513 . |
| 9 | I opened the front door and heard the voice of Warda Al-Jazairiyya flooding through the door of my room . |
| 10 | When I opened the front door there were all my Christmas parcels strewn across the hallway in various stages of unwrappedness . |
| 11 | So it was a big cheering surprise when I opened the front door of Eva 's house one day to find Uncle Ted standing there in his green overalls , a bag of tools hanging from his fist , smiling all over his chopped face . |
| 12 | I opened the front door , and the merest sniff — choking and sulphuric — told me that a chimney was on fire , and it was n't ours . |
| 13 | I shrugged as I opened the flat door . |
| 14 | As I opened the bottom door he said , I 've been hitting it . |
| 15 | Then I opened the back door and out they went . |
| 16 | While I could still feel and just see it , I opened the back door to the garden . |
| 17 | and you get gale force winds blowing down there and of course I opened the back door and there were panes of glass flying past |
| 18 | There was one occasion when I was sitting in the kitchen and I heard the front door close , and then footsteps in the hall . |
| 19 | I was in my room sorting out what I was to take with me when I heard the front door . |
| 20 | Then I heard the front door close and the sound of his car going down the road . |
| 21 | I heard the outer door shut . |
| 22 | I heard the outer door slam , then silence . |
| 23 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 24 | I said that , I said the back door 's for you but they 're like concrete . |
| 25 | Actually I was cos I I had the back door open and I thought I 'll just leave it and if he wants to come in he can and I poured him a a bit of a drink of milk and er , then I went in the kit , in the bathroom and the door was still open and then suddenly I thought God I wonder where he was ? |
| 26 | Mark said : ‘ I kicked the front door in and tried to get upstairs , but was beaten back by the smoke . |
| 27 | Suddenly amused , I held the stiff door open for him and bowed languidly from the waist with an exquisite fin-de-siècle sarcasm , a little flourish of an unquenched spirit . |