Example sentences of "her [prep] the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stairs were cold and draughty and the light was n't good , but she 'd placed herself so that the agency 's receptionist would be able to see her through the glass-panelled door if she should happen to glance up . |
| 2 | Happy or not , Tod preceded her through the front door . |
| 3 | The party was over and the house was in darkness when he pulled up in the courtyard and accompanied her through the front door into the hall . |
| 4 | Behind her through the open door , Katherine saw a man she thought she recognized as the porter . |
| 5 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 6 | He nodded and followed her through the back door into the kitchen . |
| 7 | Scooping her up in his arms , he carried her towards the front door , easily unlatched it , flicked a switch , kicked the door shut behind him , and carried her into the bedroom . |
| 8 | He moved with incredible speed , seizing her by the shoulders and propelling her towards the closed door , a hard violence etching the bones of his face into a mask that would have just done justice to a Viking warrior at his most rapacious . |
| 9 | As the sow came at him he allowed her to run her head into the bin then , bent double , he began to back her towards the open door . |
| 10 | Captain Meredith observed her from the open door , as did Miss Jarman . |
| 11 | It was raining and he decided to drop her outside the front door , sheltered as it was by the portico with two columns . |
| 12 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've got to go , ’ he blurted out , skirting past her to the front door . |
| 14 | Ross had taken her home , gently helping her out of the taxi and escorting her to the front door . |
| 15 | When they 'd covered more or less everything and it was time for her to go , Angelica walked with her to the main door . |
| 16 | When she came back , Phyllis and Peter met her at the back door . |
| 17 | She went upstairs and slung her bikini bottoms in a bag , along with her suntan oil and a towel , and ran downstairs , to find him waiting for her by the front door . |
| 18 | The Diggorys were long abed , and Hector shut up in her little room , but candles had been left for her by the front door . |