Example sentences of "door [coord] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We went back this morning and I opened the door and burst into tears . ’ |
| 2 | They went round the back door and got to John Smith and they got the chief whip and got the chairman of the party and had a rerun of the vote two weeks later . |
| 3 | The auberge owner joined me at the door and stared with contempt at the sky . |
| 4 | She opened the door and stared in astonishment at the tall , strongly built man who was standing with his hand raised for another assault on her bell . |
| 5 | Blanche nodded wordlessly to Dexter who , with a show of reluctance , opened the door and disappeared with Taczek to arrange the formalities of release . |
| 6 | He put his head round the door and spoke to Evans . |
| 7 | Mr Wood came to the door and spoke to Tony 's mother . |
| 8 | One year ago , my wife and I packed up our young son , double-locked the door and moved from New York to London . |
| 9 | He strode to the door and shouted for clerks . |
| 10 | Amiss allowed half a minute to pass before he pushed open the door and stood in front of the quintet . |
| 11 | He knocked on the door and begged for aid . |
| 12 | Just knocked on doors and waited for people to answer . |
| 13 | Here the great house is not crumbling , as in Palladian , but has suffered the worse humiliation of being perverted into a preparatory school for boys : it is divided by baize doors and encircled by cinder paths . |