Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] at [art] door " in BNC.

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1 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 . ’
2 A talkative Bruce Willis dropped me outside the London flat fifteen minutes later ( you can assess the situation on the way upstairs ) , and Kenneth came down to meet me at the door .
3 Cornelius found himself at a door .
4 Anne caught her at the door to the bedroom .
5 ‘ And , lady — ’ His voice stopped her at the door .
6 His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) .
7 Now imagine that instead of sitting behind his desk your boss had met you at the door and ushered you to a seat , then pulled up a chair next to you .
8 A serving-maid to all intents and purposes , she had presented herself at the door which gave access to the rear stairs , the garden stairs , which led to the royal apartments .
9 Now , I must welcome him at the door .
10 Just dump it at the door there .
11 ‘ How would it be if I returned your gift so that you can give it at the door ? ’
12 Kim meets us at the door wearing a shimmering dress .
13 The auberge owner joined me at the door and stared with contempt at the sky .
14 When he greets me at the door , he is still wearing an apron , after ‘ helping out ’ in the attached tea shop which he runs ‘ as a bit of a hobby ’ .
15 The Champ greets me at the door to his mother 's house in Louisville .
16 and we went in and like the vicar greets you at the door do n't he and she was like up to the vicar like , you know , she 's more fucking heavier than thou
17 Subdued by the mockery , she joined him at the door he was now unlocking , still not wholly trusting him , and the gleam in his eyes told her he knew it .
18 I threw myself at the door and tried desperately to open it .
19 I could hear her at the door ,
20 He must have heard her at the door .
21 Mrs Bennett waylaid her at the door of the little sitting-room which Celia had designated for her and Brian 's everyday use .
22 A small , brown-haired woman met him at the door , surrounded by a group of noisy , dirty children who eyed Corbett boldly , then ran to hide and giggle behind their mother 's skirts .
23 Wood met him at the door .
24 Did n't even tell somebody at the door !
25 ‘ I regret I must leave you at the door , Lady Isabel .
26 Or perhaps I shoved the contents of your safe inside my robe when I saw you at the door .
27 His fingernails were broken and bloody from when he had thrown himself at the door and torn at it , in the moment when he realised that he had been shut into the stall , and what was going to happen next .
28 At 9.55 he presented himself at the door of the tall and impassive apartment-house a block back from Great Portland Street in the Marble Arch district .
29 Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy .
30 Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel .
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