Example sentences of "to the door " in BNC.
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| 31 | Both women looked at him in joint appeal and he marched to the door , pulling it open with unnecessary force . |
| 32 | ‘ There 's one of those arrows sticking to the door . ’ |
| 33 | Philip thought that maybe Mrs Wright 's friend was an invalid and could n't come to the door to open it . |
| 34 | Philip went to the door as his Dad came in . |
| 35 | They were half-way to the door before Jinny realized that the third person was missing . |
| 36 | But the tall policeman who came to the door was quite amiable . |
| 37 | ‘ It 's the drugs , see , ’ Mr Bishop 's brother had said , apologetically , as he showed Marie to the door . |
| 38 | He followed them sadly to the door . |
| 39 | The CO strode to the door . |
| 40 | So when her doorbell rang , she went thankfully to the door to let in her expected visitor . |
| 41 | ‘ Well , we do open to the public now , as you know , but oh ! the bills , and the staff want paying , ’ she said as she showed us to the door . |
| 42 | And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest , to the door of the tent of meeting . |
| 43 | With his back to the door , Mungo sank to his haunches . |
| 44 | Then the two dogs strained at their chains and snapped their teeth at him as he crossed to the door and quietly left the room . |
| 45 | His boots hit the linoleum close to the door with a clatter . |
| 46 | She dropped the parcel and , pulling the welt of her jumper down to her hips , strode to the door . |
| 47 | Gaily went to the door . |
| 48 | Tammuz made hir wait until SHe 'd wriggled through all the tables to the door . |
| 49 | Zambia padded to the door , coming face to face with a wriggling Ari , still firmly in the grip of Reynard Lennon . |
| 50 | ‘ There is no need to be ashamed , ’ he said to himself , getting up off the bed and making his way to the door to see what his native Forest looked like in daylight and to see what sort of world it was where a man could be free and alone and full of shame . |
| 51 | Mr Browning motioned his wife to be quiet and taking Wilson 's arm conducted her to the door , saying something to the effect that she must not give way to gloomy thoughts and that doubtless she was tired with a young baby still nursing and a house to run . |
| 52 | The fact that the rector of the Aberdeen grammar school , Robert Marshall , was teaching Lutheran ideas from 1521 , before having to recant in 1523 , shows how quickly they had spread to Scotland ; it was only four years earlier , in 1517 , that the little-known Augustinian monk had first startled Europe by sensationally nailing his ninety-five theses to the door of the castle church of Wittenberg . |
| 53 | At the end of the song she rose from the couch and went to the door , hesitated , did not open it , and then returned to the window-seat . |
| 54 | She almost ran to the door . |
| 55 | He started dragging Joy to the door . |
| 56 | He wandered over to the door . |
| 57 | They fell over each other to get to the door and tangled themselves into a knot of struggling limbs trying to get out of it . |
| 58 | He set the car alarm , and went up to the door . |
| 59 | Severe oak , polished to within an inch of its late-lamented life , lined the walls to the door of the morning room . |
| 60 | As Tom made his way to the door he noticed a particularly evil-looking group lurking at the entrance of a narrow alleyway . |