Example sentences of "door and [verb] [adv] [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 | Seeing her husband , she set it down by the back door and came across to the stable . |
| 6 | He just walked into her room , closed the door and came across to her , and Maggie stared at him wildly as he took her arm , drew her from the balcony and shut the french window , |
| 7 | Vitor closed the door and swung back to her . |
| 8 | She unlocked the door and got back in the shower . |
| 9 | Kiah opened the door and got out of the taxi . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He stopped at the door and stared in for a minute . |
| 12 | There was no sound from below and , carefully , Craig opened a door and stared out into the shabby passageway . |
| 13 | Preston opened the back door and stared out into the garden . |
| 14 | And he stepped calmly towards the door and disappeared out of the house . |
| 15 | She forbade him to accompany her beyond the door and walked alone over the golden sand past the flower-beds to the gate . |
| 16 | And as she lay dying the heavily bloodstained thief pocketed the cash , shut the front door and walked off among rush hour crowds . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Miss Watson closed the door and leant heavily against it . |
| 22 | I closed the door and leant back against it . |
| 23 | Athelstan went over to the door and looked carefully at it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She paused as she was about to close the door and looked back at him . |
| 26 | Whitlock walked to the door and looked back at Kolchinsky . |
| 27 | She opened the door and looked down at the gutter two feet away and then sighed . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She ran back through the kitchen and down the steps into the lower scullery , but when she came out by the back door and looked across to the wall , Tristram was not be seen . |
| 30 | Jim thought , ‘ Hello , is someone coming up to keep me company ? ’ and went to the door and looked out down the steps . |