Example sentences of "around the door [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Patrick hovered around the door for a few moments and then finally decided to brazen it out .
2 He looked around the door into the kitchen .
3 Fran switched off the tape-recorder then glanced across the crowded foyer , immediately pin-pointing Luke in a group clustered around the door to the Council Chamber .
4 Put your head around the door of a betting shop and you will see why .
5 There was hardly any traffic , just a few parked cars and a cluster of mopeds around the door of the bar opposite .
6 James poked his head around the door of the office adjacent to Stephen 's .
7 As Zen approached his office , the inspector who had been trying to trace Ubaldo Valesio 's movements poked his head around the door of the next room .
8 From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along .
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