noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
arrive
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Too often, he says, we only recognise an opportunity when it arrives back on our doorstep as an import.
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Paul, much less consulting him as to where to live, she simply literally arrived on his doorstep .
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Sometimes they are not even informed that the waste is hazardous before it arrives on their doorstep .
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One problem is the constant flow of visitors who arrive unannounced on my doorstep .
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Telephone? Arrive on the doorstep ?
leave
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Elaine could have left you on a doorstep , wrapped in a tea-towel.
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Occasionally, a baby is left on our doorstep .
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She has five hedgehogs hibernating in mounds of leaves and a kestrel which was left on her doorstep with a damaged foot.
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It just gets left on the doorstep with the milk, doesn't it.
sit
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He sat on his own doorstep and tried to think what to do.
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She sat on the kitchen doorstep , knees wide apart, frowning.
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Father worn out from the beating he had administered, sat on the doorstep smoking his pipe.
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I was smoking a pipe, sat down on a doorstep .
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Uncle Henry sat upon the doorstep and looked anxiously at the sky, which was even greyer than usual.
stand
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I stood there on my doorstep with him, and I actually considered it.
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The owner was standing on the doorstep and observing my predicament with satisfaction.
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Lord Lane said: Oppression does not stand on the doorstep with a toothbrush moustache and a swastika armband.
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I stood on the doorstep alone, pressing my lids together, breathing in, breathing out.
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I stood on her doorstep and started hooting with laughter.
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Detective Sergeant Maxham was standing on the doorstep .
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I was touched when my dad told me that every night he stood on the back doorstep and said goodnight to John.
turn
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Landladies had mysteriously found tenants in the few minutes between a telephone inquiry and one's turning up on the doorstep .
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My guess is you turned up on the doorstep during business hours with some papers for Marty to sign.
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That is being done, so many people may turn up on our doorsteps not with their tanks but with their suitcases.
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The phone kept ringing and no one there, and then he turned up on the doorstep .
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Indeed, the governments of the region seem quite ungrateful when the well-meaning secretary of state turns up on their doorsteps .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A cat sat patiently on the doorstep .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A dark and lovely young woman smiled at her from the doorstep .
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But it wasn't funny this morning when the police arrived on the doorstep .
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He just felt it was easier to step across the state line and have people groveling at your doorstep .
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His father buried the membrane beneath the doorstep .
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She stood paralysed for several moments on Giles Carnaby's doorstep .
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Then there is its well preserved old quarter, and on the doorstep a romantic, well wooded and castle-adorned countryside.
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They say I had the vanity to go down to Croisset and make an embarrassing scene on his doorstep .
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Thomas Hewett was off duty and having a quiet glass of stout and a chinwag on his front doorstep .