Example sentences of "knocked at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when she arrived , when she knocked at the door and waited outside , bits of the outfit threatened to dissociate , to turn ugly and risible . |
| 2 | A big grey house with a ‘ Guests ’ sign stood among trees , so I knocked at the door and asked how to find the holy well . |
| 3 | Thanking the kindly driver , I knocked at the door of Radio Glencoe . |
| 4 | With affectionate humour he described her and his favourite aunt ( called by her clergyman father in remembrance of the line in Acts where when ‘ Peter knocked at the door of the gate , a damsel came to hearken , named Rhoda ’ ) as being like ‘ a couple of Bengal matches — you know , those fizzy things with a pink light ’ . |
| 5 | At 9am on 21 July she knocked at the door . |
| 6 | We arrived at his house and knocked at the door . |
| 7 | Keen Dee knocked at the door of Ed 's flat . |
| 8 | Andrew , now 29 , was 15 that summer when he knocked at the door and introduced himself . |
| 9 | All else apart , I could not forget that movement of his hand to his pocket when ‘ Parsons ’ knocked at the door . |
| 10 | The three glossed signs from transcript 1 ( KNOCKED , CAME , WHAT ? ) represent three propositions with the meaning that someone knocked at the door , the person inside came and tried to find out what it was . |
| 11 | He stopped speaking as someone knocked at the door . |
| 12 | The Fish-Boy knocked at the door , and a second later a large plate came flying out of an open window . |
| 13 | Someone knocked at the door . |
| 14 | I knocked at the door and was told to enter . |
| 15 | When I knocked at the door , Mr Rochester 's old servant , John , opened it and recognized me . |
| 16 | She knocked at the door . |
| 17 | So Gabriel knocked at the door of his fine large house and asked for a cup of wine . |
| 18 | Gabriel knocked at the door and asked if they could give him a bed for the night and a bite to eat . |
| 19 | He knocked at the door of the sitting-room . |
| 20 | Later that day he parked his car outside Emma 's house and knocked at the door . |
| 21 | On a Sunday in February she was eating her lunch in the cottage where she lived , when d'Urberville knocked at the door . |
| 22 | She knocked at the door of the prison . |
| 23 | She ran up the path and knocked at the door , her whole body seized by such a trembling excitement that she thought perhaps she was going to faint . |
| 24 | At the top of the stairs , Zakir knocked at the door . |
| 25 | Most of them were well gone in their cups and offered no objection when Cranston knocked at the door and demanded entrance . |
| 26 | We knocked at the door , and a woman let us in . |
| 27 | Juliet knocked at the door . |
| 28 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |
| 29 | Then when she was talking to me someone knocked at the door then Auntie Linda was saying he wo n't bite you , he 's alright . |
| 30 | They just knocked at the door and said how would you care to take part ? |