Example sentences of "door and [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days ago when they had carted out Menzies the minister and Fleming the young teacher from along the road at Dull and danced round them like children at a Halloween fire and stuck them up on horses , facing backwards , and paraded them past the door and down the road to Aberfeldy , he had flung a soft carrot himself and caught the man on the side of his face . |
| 2 | He led Bill firmly to the baize door and down the stairs , never once looking back to see if he was being followed . |
| 3 | Then she drifted out of the door and down the stairs , leaving the studio door open behind her . |
| 4 | Remorse and pain clutched at her , almost taking her breath away , and Jenna spun round and took to her heels , taking Alain by surprise so that she was through the door and down the stairs before he caught her . |
| 5 | I put the phone down with a frown , grabbed my books , bag and coat , raced through the door and down the street and reached the bus stop breathless . |
| 6 | Why ca n't they take it through the back door and up the stair ? |
| 7 | Every lunchtime she watched her three male partners in Exeter-based accountancy firm Honey Perriam disappear out of the door and up the road to the local snooker club , while she sat at her desk , nibbling her sandwich . |
| 8 | She turned from him now and ran to the door and up the back stairs . |
| 9 | So I danced till we got to the edge of the room and then I danced right out the door and up the street . |
| 10 | We grope our way to the back door and up the stairs , lit by a single spluttering candle and tumble drunkenly into bed . |
| 11 | In Sarajevo , journalists like Camo sell the paper themselves , door to door and on the street , often mobbed by news-hungry citizens . |
| 12 | Esther 's slight figure could be seen coming furtively through the door and into the recess . |
| 13 | She almost danced away , out of the door and into the sunlight , blithely leaving her horse to her brother whether he had intended seeing to it or not . |
| 14 | Her attacker then ran through the open lift door and into the corridor . |
| 15 | We walked through the front door and into the bar . |
| 16 | Now he escorts us out into the rain , along a gravel path , through another locked door and into the annexe where our room is . |
| 17 | He turned back from the door and into the kitchen . |
| 18 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 19 | When the daily help came through the back door and into the kitchen , she found Beth sitting at the table , breathless and dishevelled . |
| 20 | ‘ All right , ’ she concedes , slightly breathless , dealing with a shirt that has unaccountably unbuttoned itself , before letting herself out of one door and into the other . |
| 21 | Without waiting to see if the young servant materialised , Theodora and Treadwell stepped through the open door and into the freedom of the outside world . |
| 22 | Reluctantly , Kevin helped Sergeant Davidson to get the senseless Liam out of the door and into the morning air . |
| 23 | Heart pounding with excitement , he barged through the door and into the dock , where Germans both on the dockside and aboard the ships ran for cover , beginning to open fire at the intruders . |
| 24 | Just when it looked like the proverbial music centre was to disappear out the front door and into the sheriff 's van , Rough managed to contact his solicitors who paid the £250 Rough owed to an Edinburgh Sports Company . |
| 25 | Then our eyes will be firmly caught and firmly held by a bent female figure hurrying in through the door and across the room towards us . |
| 26 | I just made it out of the front door and to the end of my path , when the picture windows imploded inwards and the house erupted behind me through its triangular roof like Krakatoa herself . |
| 27 | Whenever her father returned unexpectedly , I would make a frantic , unscheduled exit through the back door and over the wall . |
| 28 | His hand firmly cupping her bare elbow , he escorted her through the door and along the passage . |
| 29 | He eventually scrambled through the door and onto the top of the sinking tanker . |
| 30 | A motor car was parked in the alleyway about three metres from the bakery door and alongside the Alliance building end wall . |