Example sentences of "around [art] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The upsurge in traffic in the 1980s has alas meant that passengers have often had to stand in the centre aisles , in the lobbies , and around the door vestibules . |
| 3 | Herr Nordern told him , barking savagely at an innocent Paul who poked his head around the door to ask what time they wanted lunch . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Put your head around the door of a betting shop and you will see why . |
| 7 | He smiled and said ‘ thank you ’ as he disappeared around the door . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A woman 's face appeared around the door . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? . ’ |
| 12 | There was something rather eerie about people turning up unexpectedly around the door and starting to sing . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Others simply stood around the door resisting every invitation to come forward and sit at the front among middle-aged relations and family friends . |
| 15 | I could , of course , have added that some of those crowded around the door were likely to end up like Conor unless they backed away from their relentless hedonism , from their incessant living for the moment . |
| 16 | There was hardly any traffic , just a few parked cars and a cluster of mopeds around the door of the bar opposite . |
| 17 | Massive bikers hung around the door arguing like crazy with their denim-clad babes , intimidating newcomers and ensuring only the bravest got in . |
| 18 | Patrick hovered around the door for a few moments and then finally decided to brazen it out . |
| 19 | Around the door an oak railing had been built . |
| 20 | A head poked around the door . |
| 21 | James poked his head around the door of the office adjacent to Stephen 's . |
| 22 | Benny , Ace and Petion arrived to find them milling around the door , testing it for electrification with a bayonet whose handle was securely wrapped with oilcloth . |
| 23 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 24 | Armed and unarmed Iranians streamed in-along with gusts of tear gas that the US marines had laid down around the door . |
| 25 | Slivers of light showed around the door . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | He looked around the door into the kitchen . |
| 29 | Robyn glanced down dejectedly at her scruffy jeans and paint-splattered top and then waited five seconds after the short , insistent ring , before peering suspiciously around the door . |
| 30 | Stencil a border round the ceiling , around the door and windows , and above the skirting boards . |