Example sentences of "the street door " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Fatsia japonica under the stairs has become a real fatso , ’ Claudia pointed out , but she has a more manageable fatsia , which happily shares his pot by the street door by the Clematis montana ‘ Tetrarose . ’ |
| 2 | The street door behind him opened . |
| 3 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ said Sergeant Davidson , going out of the street door with a bucket of water in his hand . |
| 4 | Mr. Russ would take up position just inside the street door armed with his cane . |
| 5 | The last of the six was occupied by Miss Kate Grace , a cripple from birth , who spent almost all day and every day standing on her crutches at the street door . |
| 6 | I would stand at the street door and wait until his tall , burly figure appeared , still plodding along with that measured tread acquired from years on the beat . |
| 7 | Sometimes , but not too often , there was the sound of a window being broken , whereupon a general speedy exodus took place , with the consequent panic whenever a knock came at the street door during the next few days . |
| 8 | Not only did the street door open on to a wide passage , but there were three large rooms downstairs , plus a scullery , the front room having a bay window . |
| 9 | In consequence of a previous burglary , he placed a secret mark on the street door , and on the morning of May 23rd , he found that the mark had been interfered with … the accused descended … |
| 10 | A skylight above the street door was closed and out of reach , but I tried to reach it anyway and was surprised when my fingers touched the ledge . |
| 11 | He spoke to the waiter , and struggling into his coat made for the street door . |
| 12 | By way of reply , Connor walked across the room , drew back the bolts on the street door and flung it open . |
| 13 | At the height of the festivities , the street door opened and Huw Pritchard came in , looking for Connor . |
| 14 | He seemed larger than ever under the low ceiling , and when he strode out through the street door , the saloon bar seemed quite empty without him . |
| 15 | Nick Frazer was standing just inside the street door , holding a wicker basket with a barred opening in it . |
| 16 | When he was nine he read Hamlet , no doubt a copy from his father 's bookshop , and , as he told Mrs Thrale later , when he came to the ghost scene he left the kitchen fireside and stood reading at the street door in Lichfield in order to ‘ have people about ’ . |
| 17 | After a few minutes a young woman came out of the street door below them and walked away . |
| 18 | She opened the street door with just the slightest qualm , remembering the night Foucard and Denis had stepped out of its darkness . |
| 19 | Down below the street door banged and footsteps tramped upstairs . |
| 20 | When they reached the street door they realized his problem . |
| 21 | From below came the noise of the street door . |
| 22 | The man 's eyes slid sideways to the street door . |
| 23 | I had locked the street door to my laboratory and broken the key . |
| 24 | Trees cut her view for part of the way and when she could see the street door leading to her flat she noticed a man dawdling by , looking up and down the pavement and then strolling back the way he had come . |
| 25 | If Shildon had waited on the stairs instead of leaving by the street door , he could creep back and force the flat door while she was asleep . |
| 26 | ‘ In nomine Patris — ’ he began when the street door burst open , and Killion rushed in . |
| 27 | ‘ Come up , ’ Loretta called gaily , pressing the button to release the street door . |
| 28 | As they opened the street door , a blast of cold air hit them . |
| 29 | She was just in time to hear the street door slam , two floors below . |
| 30 | The street door was locked so I pressed the button numbered 11 on the squawk box built into the porch . |