Example sentences of "[noun] around the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perennials like linarias bring a subdued colour to the narrow border and a yellow jasmine around the door will give a warm welcome in the colourless winter period . |
| 2 | We stapled a piece of blue baize around the door and , hey presto , there was a neat little portable platform which we could produce when the time came , looking incredibly efficient . |
| 3 | There was hardly any traffic , just a few parked cars and a cluster of mopeds around the door of the bar opposite . |
| 4 | I then drafted a statement for the management side and sent it by hand to Mellowes who was sufficiently impressed by this initiative to pop his head around the door an hour later with a look of something less than mistrust . |
| 5 | Herr Nordern told him , barking savagely at an innocent Paul who poked his head around the door to ask what time they wanted lunch . |
| 6 | Put your head around the door of a betting shop and you will see why . |
| 7 | I made my way through the crowds to Farr 's in Brown Street , managed to get right up to the entrance and poke my head around the door to see what was going on . |
| 8 | The owner of the Home may pop her head around the door and say , ‘ I 'm going into the town today , can I do anything for you ? . ’ |
| 9 | James poked his head around the door of the office adjacent to Stephen 's . |
| 10 | Catching wind of the disturbance , he poked his head around the door and in his early-morning voice , like a flute with catarrh , he threw the inquiry in the direction of Mr Crumwallis . |
| 11 | Then a regular popped his head around the door , like an extra in an old Gracie Fields film , and said : ‘ Hey , I think there 's a fire up at Meadowbanks . ’ |
| 12 | The children were watching TV peacefully , but Annie saw her as she bobbed her head around the door , gave a pleased gurgle and started to scramble down . |
| 13 | As Zen approached his office , the inspector who had been trying to trace Ubaldo Valesio 's movements poked his head around the door of the next room . |
| 14 | Wendy put her head around the door . |
| 15 | Of granite , which he has used in dressings around the doors and windows , he wrote : ‘ Especial care is required to make the mouldings of a broad , bold and massive , rather than a small or delicately undercut character , and to avoid as far as possible anything like minuteness and pettiness in the finish . ’ |
| 16 | In particular the fitting of trim around the doors and working lights was not as good as it should be . |
| 17 | There 's one in Sunderland with 2,500 dwellings ; the older end is respectable , with tree-lined avenues and mature privets , and concessions to the eye in design details around the doors and windows . |
| 18 | It is a very hard brick which is finely worked in various decorative details such as the Doric and Ionic pilasters which frame the windows on both the main floors and the elaborate dentil pediment and rusticated pilasters around the door . |
| 19 | A cottage with roses around the door might depress people appallingly . ’ |
| 20 | The dome also incorporates a built-in groundsheet with a 6″ lip around the door , this will ensure no unwelcome creatures can come wandering into your bivvy during the night . |
| 21 | Before he left , Chagall twisted a coil of stout wire around the door handle twenty-five times , certain that the one hundred and fifty paintings he had left inside would be secure . |
| 22 | From what I could see of him — mostly his spectacles and his left arm around the door jamb — he appeared to be wearing a red silk kimono . |