Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [prep] [art] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dealing Team , who has been knocking on the door at Hackney , should prove too strong for her rivals on Tuesday 's BAGS card . |
| 2 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 3 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 4 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 5 | Abso , absolutely , you see because if you take — last year we had er one of our winners er a lady called Liz Harris , who 's been knocking on the door and trying to get established as a writer for years and years and years . |
| 6 | We 've been knocking at the door in four defeats . |
| 7 | ‘ Have you been listening at the door , Edgar ? ’ asked Catherine coldly . |
| 8 | Robert could not have said why , but he had the strong impression that the engineering master , too , had been listening at the door . |
| 9 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 10 | Bagshot had been heading for a door opening off the foyer . |
| 11 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 12 | Joshua Morris , who had been standing near the door , slipped out into the foyer . |
| 13 | Exactly at the same time the Girls , who had each been standing behind a door , burst through and on to the stage . |
| 14 | A couple of times she 's been standing behind a door , open it , smash her brains in . |
| 15 | He had been standing by the door which was now partly open . |
| 16 | It slapped a ‘ for sale ’ sign on both flagships some months ago but buyers have not been queuing at the door . |
| 17 | The police constable who had been hammering on the door was allowed to come in . |