Example sentences of "door [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On leaving Powell Street he had lit a cigarette and within seconds a disembodied voice was booming at him to extinguish it and at the next station put it out the door on to the track . |
| 2 | She caught a glimpse of uniform and retreated behind the door on to the landing . |
| 3 | She gained the door on to the night and pushed it and stepped over the sill . |
| 4 | She turned her back on the light and opened the door on to the smaller staircase . |
| 5 | By late morning the air was on fire ; to open the door on to the roof terrace was to feel in your face a blast of heat as strong as that from a blazing kiln . |
| 6 | Charles wandered through the door on to the stage , and found even more evidence . |
| 7 | Teleworkers can operate at the kitchen table with a couple of filing cabinets tucked under it but most prefer to use a separate room they can shut the door on at the end of the day . |
| 8 | Because not only had all this lot to be moved , but halfway through the removal he suddenly remembered there was something else needed moving , shot to the stairs with a white face , opened the door in under the stairs and out came all the bits and pieces from there . |
| 9 | She made her way , still seemingly dancing to the tune , the huge crocodile-skin handbag on her arm swaying heavily in time , to the door down to the saloon . |
| 10 | And the only place with a lock on is the bathroom and I reckon they 'll blooming knock the blooming door down by the sound of it . |
| 11 | Now I do n't know whether they actually broke the door down in the end , but they did gain entrance to a flat very near us , erm and they had dogs with them that night . |
| 12 | They parked their two bikes outside the round door over at the Lion , came in , one ordered two drinks and he said I 'll just nip across to phone . |
| 13 | Thérèse strolled from the back door over to the stove where the fish-kettle still stood , awash with cooking juice . |
| 14 | More bangs from the rear of the house , the door through to the kitchen slammed back against the wall , the room filled with soldiers , and in the wrecked doorway a tall , slim officer was making a small ceremony of ushering in a man with long grey hair and a black coat . |
| 15 | The President sat at a plain wooden desk to the right of the door through to the front room . |
| 16 | They went back into the anteroom , but the door through to the theatre remained open . |
| 17 | It poked its front door out into the green as though to challenge an equality with the deanery opposite . |
| 18 | Someone came out of The Two Pheasants and latched the door back to the wall hospitably . |
| 19 | Gripping the child 's arm , Aggie pulled her from the room and through into a hall and there she stood waiting , for she guessed that the women lined up like felons against the wall would now be led out to pay their fines at the desk in the corner , or be taken through the door back to the cells . |
| 20 | He braced himself against the now torrential downpour and grabbed the door handle with both hands , hauling the sliding door back across the opening but stopping short of banging it closed . |
| 21 | Marc suddenly slammed the door back against the wall with the flat of one hand and was pushing inside after her . |
| 22 | But his bathroom was in the conservatory , which had two doors on to the garden where his wife grew plants , and as she left these doors open all morning his part of the house was apt to be colder than anywhere . |
| 23 | Fix the stable doors on to the wall with royal icing , with the upper doors opening outwards . |
| 24 | Do you know that chap two doors down with the B M W ? |
| 25 | ‘ Just go down the plaza here , turn right into the old section of the building , and it 's a few doors down on the right . |
| 26 | Seen outside the ‘ homely ’ Bull & Gate pub — just a few doors down from the Town & Country Club where your beloved NME is currently holding its superlative week of talent flaunting — a small sad notice fluttering in the wake of the jostling NICK CAVE-bound hordes , announcing : ‘ HURRAH , onstage tonight at 10.30pm . |
| 27 | and six doors up , six doors down from the one we 've sold and get a coloured photograph so that 's the next campaign going out . |
| 28 | To the left , and two doors along to the right , are two structures which have survived from the time of this picture to the present — apart , that is from Inigo Jones 's Banqueting House just visible on the same side of the street in a haze of sunlight . |
| 29 | ( 19/12/92 ) : We took all the remaining panels the A end , which was very heavy , and the doors off with the help of the door man Vic ! |
| 30 | a , a , a strong back which was er er say a , a what we call a back in the centre of the ship and course the d n th the steam hopper could heave their own doors up by the steam winch . |