Example sentences of "door and [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vitor closed the door and swung back to her . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | He closed the door and went back to the desk , sat down , dialled the number from memory . |
| 7 | But then it turned round towards the open stable door and went back to its place in the darkness , |
| 8 | He locked the door and went back to the carrel . |
| 9 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 10 | Already showing signs of life , patients were brought in one by one from the pile next door and wedged on to the chair in Room I , which looked like what it was , a laboratory in the Hygienic Institute , a world of bubbles and bottles . |
| 11 | Then she slammed the door and stormed off to bed . |
| 12 | Then he locked the suite door and stumbled back to bed , listening to his drugged head whine like the empty telephone line . |
| 13 | The water was splashing in the bathroom ; she thumped on the door and called out to Alice , ‘ Gran 's ill . |
| 14 | Midwinter came into the frame of the door and turned back to the room beyond to clap gently with his white-gloved hands . |
| 15 | Panting breathlessly , she turned from the door and moved through to the hall , where Donna was trying to make her way down the stairs . |
| 16 | A short flight of stairs adjoins each entrance door and leads down to the central sleeping area . |