Example sentences of "door [conj] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have the ‘ revolving-door ’ syndrome where people who have been sent to jail go in one door and come out the other . ’ |
| 2 | Easily Accessible : You can step outside the door and walk around the farm and the village . |
| 3 | ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived . |
| 4 | Turning the big key in the back door and easing up the latch , Mungo began to feel free , as though now he could make his own rules and ignore the restrictions imposed by daylight . |
| 5 | He opened the safe door and took out the fish as though it were stuffed with rubies . |
| 6 | Enough light would spill inwards from the porch as the door closed slowly on its damper , enough at least for him to get to his own door and line up the key ; but when it came to it he hurried too much and was trying to shake out the Yale when the front door put him in darkness . |
| 7 | As I sat there , the china spewed forth from the open door and cascaded down the ready-made ramp into my lap . |
| 8 | Eight o'clock in the morning , and if she went to work then he hoped still to be in time to catch her before she locked the front door and shut out the intrusion of a man from the Service . |
| 9 | The wind tugged at the banner-pole that carried his standard , outside at the turret , and made a dolorous creaking sound that accompanied his steps along the chilly corridor , and whined faintly in his ears even after he had closed the door and shut out the sound of the rain . |
| 10 | Lilith closed the door and slid back the wedge . |
| 11 | Suddenly he dashed over to the door and put out the light . |
| 12 | He pulled open his door and hurried down the landing towards the bathroom . |
| 13 | The barmaid swung open a door and switched on the light . |
| 14 | She opened the double rear doors and pointed out the two forty-five-gallon tanks which were her emergency supply if an airport closed down on her . |
| 15 | It would have been simpler and more effective , he wrote , to lock the doors and seal up the entrances , simpler and more effective and cheaper than manning the whole building . |
| 16 | I closed the doors and switched on the tape recorder . |