Example sentences of "[vb past] it open " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I ran over to my cupboard door and jerked it open . |
| 3 | He slit it open with his finger , and glanced at it . |
| 4 | He stopped outside the kitchen door and carefully cracked it open a fraction — and looked straight into Jane 's wide eyes . |
| 5 | She twisted away from him and backed over to the door , and then cracked it open , and peered out into the hall . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I hope you 've locked the car up , three times last week I found it open , it really is terribly dangerous … |
| 8 | She tried the back door and found it open , and going in she turned on some lights and made herself a cup of coffee . |
| 9 | She crossed to the door and threw it open . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I went across and threw it open , exasperated that my holy moment had been so brutally shattered . |
| 12 | God keep you , Solper , ’ he muttered and went towards the door just as Fitzosbert threw it open . |
| 13 | Then squaring her shoulders , she crossed to the drawing-room door , and threw it open . |
| 14 | His brother Arthur , ( Lord Ardilaun ) landscaped St. Stephen 's Green , once a medieval common , and threw it open to the public . |
| 15 | Rose went to one of the windows and threw it open . |
| 16 | Antony pulled out a table-cloth and shook it open with a fine flourish like a bull-fighter showing his cape . |
| 17 | He ripped it open . |
| 18 | Then she held her breath and ripped it open . |
| 19 | At last , shakily , she picked up the envelope and ripped it open , taking out the single sheet of paper . |
| 20 | She ripped it open and saw the date in her mother 's neat childish writing . |
| 21 | A bolt of lightning ripped it open , and the light was followed closely by a deep rumble of thunder . |
| 22 | He folded it open at a page of stocks and shares , and as he was looking down the lists he gave the man two dollars . |
| 23 | The branch of a tree caught the door , swung it open and then , with a terrible metallic noise , ripped it off . |
| 24 | She rapped on his door , swung it open and stood in the doorway , not trusting either of them if it was shut . |
| 25 | The English-speaking Arab pulled it open and indicated for them to enter . |
| 26 | Barbara tried to follow , but Duvall slammed the door against her and she cried out in pain as he pulled it open again , grabbed her arm and threw her into the office . |
| 27 | Kaas turned and walked to the door , pulled it open and shouted in German : ‘ Get Kragan . ’ |
| 28 | She pulled it open and looked inside . |
| 29 | Anyway , I came to this old cemetery and against one wall was this kind of beehive grave affair and someone had broken into one of the graves and pulled out this baby 's coffin and smashed it open . |
| 30 | He smashed it open . |