noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
open
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When he reached the open doorway he booted the parcel into the room and whirled around to slam the door behind him.
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From the open doorway comes a breeze and the sounds of a playground.
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Through the open doorway Culley could see activity near the pit, and shadows jostling on the walls.
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Another woman, older than most of the others, appeared at the open doorway .
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When he saw the room was empty he turned and walked through the open doorway of Johnny's room, searching.
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Mylar mirrors magnified the sunlight, directing it into the open doorway of the building on the corner.
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You creep along to an open doorway .
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The tap-tap boy with the crooked gaze stood in the open doorway , grinning as usual.
■ NOUN
kitchen
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They were framed by the kitchen doorway .
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But then she was there in the kitchen doorway .
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She rushed after him, almost bumping into him as he came to an abrupt halt in the kitchen doorway .
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Two relatives listen soberly from the kitchen doorway .
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The cat watched her from the kitchen doorway and she returned its stare.
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He opened the Rabelais to a page and began reading, walking to the kitchen doorway to serenade Alice with the flow.
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Maurin appeared in the kitchen doorway .
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She sat stiffly on a ladder-back chair in the kitchen doorway .
shop
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I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen.
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Today's vagrants, squatting under railway arches and in shop doorways , are not regarded as having strayed from anywhere.
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He thought about the two girls in the shop doorway , surprised by the detailed impression they had left on his memory.
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In a nearby shop doorway an eighty-two-year-old pensioner had been hurled against a door frame, knocking her unconscious.
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I couldn't even get out of my shop doorway earlier for people.
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A man came out of the shop doorway and stared at her.
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At that moment, in the distance, a figure appeared from the shop doorway .
■ VERB
appear
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Gabriel appeared in the doorway , his cheeks red and his healthy face shining.
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Another woman, older than most of the others, appeared at the open doorway .
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Behind her Bill Lawrence appeared in the doorway .
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A few minutes later a man in his early thirties appears just inside the doorway .
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Just as Mr Mullen fell on his back, blood pouring from his nose, Gail appeared in the doorway .
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It was the father who appeared in the doorway , a tall man with a plaid blanket folded over one arm.
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Maurin appeared in the kitchen doorway .
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Ada, come on, come on. Appear in that doorway .
come
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As Sophie and Giles came through the doorway , Robert turned quickly away, leaving Dawn alone.
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Alice came to the doorway pulling curlers from her hair.
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Leonora Buckmaster came to the front doorway as the Daimler pulled up.
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Zachary, a big, chunky kid who played baseball and soccer, came through the doorway first.
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But as we were coming out of the doorway , running across there, sidling round the side was the inspector.
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A man came out of the shop doorway and stared at her.
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If he's forgotten the stabilizers ... Lights had come on beyond the doorway .
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The doorway , there was grey daylight coming from the doorway.
fill
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He filled up the doorway with his uneasy bulk and there was defiance in his eyes.
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Donna Charito filled the doorway a moment with her large body, then she pulled the door to with a great slam.
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She was on the phone and he stood silently, filling the doorway , raising an eyebrow at her.
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For a moment nothing happened except that the figure of Cesar seemed to grow larger and fill the doorway .
frame
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They were framed by the kitchen doorway .
look
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Then they all looked out of the open doorway .
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People were hurrying, others stood in doorways looking toward the center of town.
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There was a sharp intake of breath behind him, and there she stood in the doorway looking at him.
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When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great grey prairie on every side.
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She set off round the perimeter of the vast doorway , looking for anything that resembled a control panel.
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He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment.
pass
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She passed through the doorway , her eyes raking through the little knot of people clustered round it.
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On opening the door and passing through the doorway the plaintiff immediately fell down a flight of steps and sustained injury.
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Benny ran through the tunnels, making for the dock, but soon she passed a familiar doorway .
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They pass a stone doorway in the tunnel wall, but by-pass it in favour of a more obvious way out.
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As Arabella passed one of the doorways , a pair of hands shot out.
pause
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Despite all her resolution, she paused outside the plate-glass doorway and looked around guiltily.
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She paused in the doorway leading to the grey corridor that ran across the back of the house.
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The clerk glared angrily at him as he paused in the doorway .
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She paused in the doorway of Nathan's room.
reach
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When he reached the open doorway he booted the parcel into the room and whirled around to slam the door behind him.
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She turned as Gail reached the doorway .
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The smith's shop where my father worked was reached through a doorway at the right of the carpenter's shop.
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When at length they reached the expected doorway it was to find the door open.
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His stomach tightened as he reached the doorway .
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By the time she reached the doorway he was out of firing range.
stand
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Paramat stood by the doorway with the attitude of a tourist at the shrine of an exotic religious sect.
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Fong stood in the doorway , his invitation clutched tightly in his hand.
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He was standing just inside the doorway , supporting Piper O'Rourke, who was looking old, tired and bruised.
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I stood in the doorway of a store during the storms we were having and watched the rain fall through the gloom.
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Later, Ashley stood in the doorway of the barn.
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Meg stood in the garden doorway , her small figure silhouetted against the twilight redness of the bay.
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Foster stood by the doorway of the hotel, next to a potted palm.
step
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She stepped aside into the doorway of the next room while Luch drifted out and down the stair.
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The moment Joseph stepped through the doorway he began coughing uncontrollably.
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Suddenly Raul stepped out of a doorway , swinging a huge knife.
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That moment when she had stepped through his office doorway and seen him standing there with Nina.
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Oh, the disgusted look on women's faces as they step backwards through a doorway , out of the rain.
turn
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Immediately after, he turned aside to a doorway and vomited.
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Before I could catch up to him, Langford began to turn into the doorway of La Boheme.
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Fenn turned back to the doorway , his hair flat and wet against his forehead.
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Auguste was thankful when he turned into the doorway of the hotel, the sight of other temptations removed from him.
walk
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Then he walked out through the doorway .
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He opened the Rabelais to a page and began reading, walking to the kitchen doorway to serenade Alice with the flow.
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She was just drinking a second cup of coffee when Julius walked through the doorway .
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Then, nervously and slowly, he walked to the doorway .
watch
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With a laugh she watched from a doorway as the man searched aimlessly for her.
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As they travelled over the gentle swells, she became aware of Ronnie watching her from the doorway .
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The huge man was watching from the doorway of the house.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a wide doorway into the kitchen
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Large corporations are seeking a doorway to the markets of the Far East.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although she was not a tall woman, she had to stoop low to get through the doorway .
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Around them, laid out flatly, are the 12 apostles each occupying a Moorish arched doorway .
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I slept in doorways, in hobo jungles, in flophouses, in open pastures.
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The early excavators of Knossos found the large Horns of Consecration lying precisely in front of this doorway .
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The new pseudo-Romanesque façade maintained only the doorway .
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The townspeople abandoned the doorways and the sidewalks and followed the ambulance up the hill.
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They are blocking the hotel doorway , demanding signatures or tokens from her, as of right.
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Weatheralls had a shop there - mackintosh people - with a deep doorway .