Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the door " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two biffos would have come sneaking through the door , rubbing their hands and telling themselves they 'd got me by the balls , and I 'd have pointed the extinguisher and put out their fire . |
| 2 | She 'ave ter goo , ’ she stormed as soon as he got through the door . |
| 3 | And I got up and I was gon na tie her up like but and by gosh I thought I 'd better make for the door again . |
| 4 | Benny sprinted for the doors she had come in by , but already more guards were arriving from their stations , and the first few shots buzzed past her . |
| 5 | A black-clad Famlio contingent had a marched through the door , with Pulvidon in its midst , blank-faced and hot-eyed . |
| 6 | Gorelli lunged for the door , but it was locked . |
| 7 | ‘ Friedel ’ comes careering through the door with an axe in its hand , before forgetting what it was so angry about in the first place , while ‘ Liebeslied ’ is the sort of directionless tosh that gives experimentalism a bad name . |
| 8 | ‘ Friedel ’ comes careering through the door with an axe in its hand , before forgetting what it was so angry about in the first place , while ‘ Liebeslied ’ is the sort of directionless tosh that gives experimentalism a bad name . |
| 9 | I took no notice and passed through the door at the far end of the room . |
| 10 | I took her arm as we passed through the door . |
| 11 | At Europe 's largest indoor shopping centre , the MetroCentre , Gateshead , Tyne and Wear , more than 50,000 passed through the doors in the first hour , the first of 130,000 during the day . |
| 12 | It was there as soon as she passed through the doors of their East Side brownstone . |
| 13 | Moving through a confined space , for example if the glider is too large to go through the door , it is always wise to go nose first , swinging the glider right round and out with its nose close to one door . |
| 14 | You 've got to go through the door |
| 15 | The leaflet and letter is posted through the door , the poster stuck up in the window , the story featured in the press . |
| 16 | He shrugged and made for the door . |
| 17 | She made for the door , but decided instead to sit down on a chair . |
| 18 | Everyone hastened to stand aside as he made for the door . |
| 19 | Mr Piggott found himself quite dazzled by the warmth of her smile as she made for the door , and was unable to speak . |
| 20 | She ducked under his arm and made for the door but he caught her arm . |
| 21 | He reached the level of the bridge , swung his back to the wall , covering the ladder they had just used as Forster made for the door . |
| 22 | As he made for the door he heard the phone ringing in the hall and when he entered he saw Joe turn from the telephone table towards him , saying , ‘ It 's for you , Martin . |
| 23 | As he made for the door she said , ‘ You wo n't forget to take that bottle in for her , will you ? |
| 24 | He stood up at the same time as she did , and caught her as she made for the door . |
| 25 | Clutching her stick as if it were an offensive weapon , she made for the door . |
| 26 | As one they made for the door , but had two dozen different recollections of its exact position . |
| 27 | He made for the door , sweeping out of the office with Rebecca in tow , stopping only to add as an afterthought , ‘ Ignore Rourke 's bad temper . |
| 28 | She made for the door , but as perforce she had to pass him he put out a hand and caught her by the wrist . |
| 29 | As it was , I nodded and made for the door ; she looked the sort of woman who won protracted lawsuits . |
| 30 | Keeping her head lowered , Carolyn made for the door , and hurried out to the dustbin . |