Example sentences of "hammering on the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Scotsman had been witnessed hammering on the door of the nearby Bull public house . |
| 2 | He began hammering on the door and calling out Maidstone 's name . |
| 3 | A hammering on the door startled Hari and , abruptly , she moved from Craig 's arms . |
| 4 | ‘ Because there I was , ’ Mrs. Mounce ran on , as the blue haze of cigarette smoke thickened in the dusk , ‘ honestly , darling , without a stitch on , and this lunatic hammering on the door and shouting he 'd wake the whole hotel if I did n't open up … ’ |
| 5 | Soon he was hammering on the door , thud after thud , a noise fit to wake the dead . |
| 6 | She stopped shouting and gave up hammering on the door . |
| 7 | Athelstan joined him , hammering on the door with his fist . |
| 8 | Guy 's fist hammering on the door of the inn broke into Isabel 's rambling thoughts . |
| 9 | They 've heard his mother hammering on the door , demanding that he open it to her . |
| 10 | Fists went on hammering on the door . |
| 11 | The police constable who had been hammering on the door was allowed to come in . |
| 12 | And yet , I can bet that every time , Jim has his committee meeting , they 're gon na be hammering on the door , for some by- pass , or some road scheme that they would have done . |
| 13 | Teri has given up going to New Year 's Eve parties after she had to lock herself in the kitchen with loads of middle aged ladies hammering on the door . |
| 14 | is the bathroom , so she must have been in there cos he 's hammering on the door and bashing it and kicking it . |
| 15 | Well he was probably actually hammering on the door now to er come and see where he 's going to put his ladders , he wanted er a bit of wall to put the brackets up to put his ladders but Paul said that he Paul thought you could suspend ropes from my garage roof , you remember what a lot of criss-cross bracing there is |
| 16 | Yeah and she used to be hammering on the door , twenty past five you know yeah |