Example sentences of "door [adj] [coord] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thankfully they were all too engrossed to notice her , and she gained the front door unmolested and slipped through it , closing it softly behind her . |
| 2 | Before that , I recognised the building under the trees , de luxe bedroom suites now , but still the same structure , on the left-hand side of the drive , just before the sweep around to the hotel steps : ‘ The stables which formed part of the rectangle of low buildings out of which that archway to the henyard led , had long been disused but somebody swept them now and then , dusted the curved metal hay racks , wiped manger and woodwork and shone the brass tethering rings so brightly than whenever we pushed a door open and looked into the dusky twilight we were welcomed by a small round gleam of light . ’ |
| 3 | And then one evening I rang the bell and then I noticed the lock was up , so I pushed the door open and looked up the stairs , at the same time as Toinette looked down round the door . |
| 4 | She held the door open and waited for them to file through . |
| 5 | Barnett threw the door open and strode into the street . |
| 6 | He opened the door wide and gestured for Robyn to enter as if it were the most natural thing in the world . |