Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] open " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they disembarked at Algeciras , the Spanish customs officers searched the car and made them open their luggage . |
| 2 | Equally remarkably , he made them open their pockets , so that they gave with extraordianry generosity when other communities as far away as Italy suffered disasters like their own . |
| 3 | She flung them open , one , two , three , her heart hammering . |
| 4 | He took a deep breath , marched to the doors , and flung them open . |
| 5 | My curiosity made me open the door , and I found the corridor full of smoke . |
| 6 | He drove in silence after that and I fell asleep until the roughness of the road made me open my eyes . |
| 7 | ‘ You made me open this window under false pretences , Aunt Becky . ’ |
| 8 | Crossing the room as though he were heading for the wardrobe , Angel Four suddenly changed direction , took two swift paces to his right , seized the curtains with both hands and jerked them open . |
| 9 | Flora helped me open the boot . |
| 10 | He said , with great politeness , that he would be in the buttery , always supposing anyone wanted to know , and Tybion the Tusk got up and helped him open the door , just to be friendly . |
| 11 | The all-round skill of Ken Macmaster helped him open up a lead of 14–8 , 17–11 , 19–14 against star bowler Ken Lamb to win 2019 to secure him a quarter-final spot . |
| 12 | But although it felt numb , the leg was still bearing his weight , so he hobbled quickly over to the door leading to the basement , jerked it open and dived through . |
| 13 | I ran over to my cupboard door and jerked it open . |
| 14 | He slit it open with his finger , and glanced at it . |
| 15 | He stopped outside the kitchen door and carefully cracked it open a fraction — and looked straight into Jane 's wide eyes . |
| 16 | She twisted away from him and backed over to the door , and then cracked it open , and peered out into the hall . |
| 17 | And eventually in exasperation the bird flew a short way down the beach and picked up a small stone in its beak and then it returned and it bashed the shell repeatedly until it cracked it open and it was able to get at the contents inside . |
| 18 | I hope you 've locked the car up , three times last week I found it open , it really is terribly dangerous … |
| 19 | She tried the back door and found it open , and going in she turned on some lights and made herself a cup of coffee . |
| 20 | Breeze ran to the windows and threw them open , leaning out to drink in the cold , moist air . |
| 21 | Ben hurried to the shutters and threw them open , then turned and stared back into the room . |
| 22 | She crossed to the door and threw it open . |
| 23 | Shaking off the nostalgia that threatened to overwhelm her , she went to the window and threw it open , startling a tiny robin that had been resting on the sill . |
| 24 | I went across and threw it open , exasperated that my holy moment had been so brutally shattered . |
| 25 | God keep you , Solper , ’ he muttered and went towards the door just as Fitzosbert threw it open . |
| 26 | Then squaring her shoulders , she crossed to the drawing-room door , and threw it open . |
| 27 | His brother Arthur , ( Lord Ardilaun ) landscaped St. Stephen 's Green , once a medieval common , and threw it open to the public . |
| 28 | Rose went to one of the windows and threw it open . |
| 29 | Antony pulled out a table-cloth and shook it open with a fine flourish like a bull-fighter showing his cape . |
| 30 | He ripped it open . |