Example sentences of "opened it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I crept to the door and , with a sudden movement , opened it wide . |
| 2 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 3 | I opened it . |
| 4 | He opened it ; I stood in the doorway while he approached the creature . |
| 5 | Malcolm opened it up . |
| 6 | Then , with the same shocking slowness , without a word , without looking at anyone , she went to the door , opened it , and let it close softly behind her . |
| 7 | She took the letter from her hands and opened it . |
| 8 | Wexford opened it at Sunday , May 12th . |
| 9 | He jiggled with a formidable lock on a cupboard and opened it . |
| 10 | He went to the door and opened it . |
| 11 | He threw his dressing gown casually on the chair and — with never a glance at Arty — jumped between the sheets , picked up the newspaper from the floor beside the bed , opened it out and peered over the top , his ears tuned to the conversation . |
| 12 | It was a couple of days later that I was alone in my flat in the evening and there was a knock on the door , I went to the door and opened it and there were about 10 people with an assortment of musical instruments — quite merry on this and that . |
| 13 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 14 | He opened it and there was a village dog with a broken limb . |
| 15 | He fumbled and brought out his wallet from an inner pocket , opened It and passed it to her . |
| 16 | She opened it . |
| 17 | Mrs Wright did n't ring the bell or knock , she took a key out of her pocket and opened it . |
| 18 | Lee scrabbled in the bag , found the carton and opened it . |
| 19 | But quickly I retrieved the book , opened it anywhere , and balancing it firmly with both hands began industriously to read . |
| 20 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 21 | As I opened it , and looked out , I realized that it was the first time I had consciously looked out : before , I had always been hurrying by . |
| 22 | She heard herself saying : ‘ I opened it by accident , see . ’ |
| 23 | I was trying hard to listen to the music and not look at them so I picked the local paper up and opened it . |
| 24 | The person who opened it would probably be on the same side as Biff . |
| 25 | The parcel exploded when she opened it , singeing her head and arms . |
| 26 | Wiping his hands on a towel , he opened it up , stretched it a couple of times , and then slipped it in the pocket of his dirty apron . |
| 27 | One of his mates took the dented tube away from him and opened it , splashing froth over a window . |
| 28 | I moved to the door and ‘ opened it ’ an inch . |
| 29 | When he opened it moths flew out and he had to give it a good clean to get rid of the cobwebs and years of dust that had settled inside . |
| 30 | The only time he opened it was to have food passed in and out . |