Example sentences of "the door [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood up and began to pace restlessly round the room , stopping occasionally by the door to squint out through the perspex porthole , by the table to lean across it and impale her on his eyes , or by the wall where he sent his hands into spirals of explanation . |
| 2 | The door eased back against the chain . |
| 3 | That thought then raised the interesting question of how fitzAlan had managed to open it — and the door leading up from the dungeons . |
| 4 | He held his hand out to her , but Fran ignored it , brushing past him to head towards the door leading back from the deck . |
| 5 | He led her to a door ; the door opened out onto the street . |
| 6 | Yet the magical city had not yet finished with me , for I somehow found myself in a dark little wood-panelled bar , with a cosy snug in the rear , and a counter near the door left over from the pub 's grocery-bar days at the turn of the century . |