Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the parent walks away or shuts the door on the child , the child may get up and follow and just start all over again . |
| 2 | If you 're inside , and you 're standing in only six inches of water , not six feet , and you 've got three or four floorboards floating about , you use one of them as a ram to break the lock or batter the door down . |
| 3 | They could n't get in and find the dead woman until they got another key or broke the door down . |
| 4 | Come in or shut the door darling . |
| 5 | Or secures the door . |
| 6 | PET ‘ HOTEL HATES ’ ( THE FREQUENT ONES ) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug , down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only * room service that brings each course separately throughout Dallas * radiators that have n't been on for years * radiators that wo n't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you 've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but do n't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both |
| 7 | It was reflected in the expressions used by some members of the RUC ( ‘ OK , let's hit the streets and do it to them before they do it to us ’ , ‘ This is where the law stops and I take over , sucker ’ , the reference to probationary police as ‘ rookies ’ and to bullets as ‘ slugs ’ ) , their dress ( mirror sunglasses , blue jeans , and white T-shirt , sometimes with the Miami-Vice parallel reinforced by the words being printed on the T-shirt ) , and other ephemera ( the engraving of ‘ San Quentin' on the keys to the cells , jumping through the enquiry room window rather than using the door ) . |
| 8 | I turn the cuphook that holds the door closed … |
| 9 | A safe Air-Cooled all-glass ‘ air-washed ’ oven door with high level handle and spring tensioned hinges that hold the door shut without the need for catches . |
| 10 | As Luke automatically put a finger to the button that prevented the door from closing , Maria tensed , turning to see Florian rushing towards them , towing Nicky along by the hand . |
| 11 | password that opened the door of the robbers ' cave in The Arabian Nights story of the Forty Thieves . |
| 12 | Last year , church leaders in Benin played a major role in the political debate that opened the door to current democratic changes . |
| 13 | Their internal squabbles , a symptom of this decadence , made them peculiarly vulnerable ; it was the quarrel between the Augustinians and Jesuits that opened the door to the regalist onslaught of the sixties on the privileges of the Church . |
| 14 | He sat in a rocking chair that faced the door . |
| 15 | A Midland Current Account is the key that unlocks the door to a whole range of services we have to offer . |
| 16 | We seek the key that opens the door to this inner consciousness , the lid of the well that we too as individuals can open . |
| 17 | This has been the aim of a large part of mankind 's intellectual and moral striving but it is our self-awareness and not intellectual procrastination which is the key that opens the door to the self . |
| 18 | Ca n't find the button that opens the door … let's try this one … . ’ |
| 19 | But sound also casts sonic shadows , though other than noticing that shutting the door can reduce the sound , we do not pay much heed to it . |
| 20 | She says , ‘ I 'll bring your duvet in a minute , ’ and she slips into her bedroom and shuts the door . |
| 21 | Then one of the kids yells that the tap has run cold , and they turn it off and bathroom and shuts the door , and the kids shriek in the water and I drift slowly back to our bedroom where it 's quiet and drab . |
| 22 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 23 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 24 | No and like they 're , like Mr was like taking the piss yeah right , everyone was clapping and cheering about something in the class , yeah , and Mr opens the Mr opens the door and goes stop that clapping , and shuts the door . |
| 25 | Mrs Wright put the flowers down on the draining-board , took a key out of her pocket , and unlocked the door . |
| 26 | He took the largest key from his set and unlocked the door . |
| 27 | Bissett went on down the corridor and unlocked the door to his room . |
| 28 | He could hardly believe his luck and unlocked the door to admit her . |
| 29 | He glanced at Superintendent Mercer , who took the key from his pocket and unlocked the door . |
| 30 | He went to a hut beside the house , and unlocked the door . |