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Example sentences for "closing the door behind"

  • They went into the rear room again, Corrigan last, closing the door behind him.

  • He got up silently, stepped stealthily into the room, closing the door behind him.

  • I took my candle and retired to my study, closing the door behind me.

  • I entered the shop, closing the door behind me; then paused to examine the girl, who was all alone amid the flowers and shrubs which filled the whole shop, save a small space where there were a table and a chair.

  • Raymond left my room, his bosom swelling with delight at being seen en bonne fortune, and returned to his own, closing the door behind him.

  • Taking off the wedding ring she placed it on the table with the others and left the room, closing the door behind her.

  • He went out, closing the door behind him.

  • Without waiting for an answer, he turned on his heel and walked into the library, closing the door behind him.

  • The girl went out, closing the door behind her.

  • He went out with that, closing the door behind him; and we heard his step go softly down the staircase.

  • I raised the latch and did so, closing the door behind me.

  • The trim-footed maid smiles, curtsies, and vanishes, closing the door behind her.

  • Now hereupon the Marquis very quietly took up his hat and, nodding to Barnabas, linked his arm in Tressider's and went softly from the room, closing the door behind him.

  • The servant admitted Vanamee, closing the door behind her.

  • Without reply, the typewriter rose and withdrew, thrusting her pencil into the coil of her hair, closing the door behind her, softly, discreetly.

  • He left the dining-room and the excited, clamouring men behind him and stepped out on the porch of the ranch house, closing the door behind him.

  • Ditmar went into his office, closing the door behind him.

  • Then, with an involuntary gesture she raised her hands to her hair, smoothing it, and without seeming haste left the room, not so much as glancing at him, closing the door behind her.

  • She rose instantly and followed him, closing the door behind her, but standing at bay against it, her hand on the knob.

  • Instead, he knocked on the door of the sitting room and, when Miss Phipps called to him to come in, he obeyed, closing the door behind him.

  • Now she dabbed hastily with it at either eye, turned and hastened into the dining room, closing the door behind her.

  • He blew out the lamp and departed, closing the door behind him.

  • He entered the room, closing the door behind him.

  • Strout grasped his hat, and with a hurried bow and "Good morning" to Huldy, left the room, closing the door behind him.

  • So saying, he rose, bowed, and having shaken my hand, left the room, closing the door behind him.

  • Closing the door behind me with my foot, I crossed the room, and set her down upon the bed.

  • He turned again and left the room, closing the door behind him.

  • He shambled hastily about the place, his one scared eye upon the man in bed, and as soon as possible fled away, closing the door behind him.

  • The Irishman stared at him for another moment and went out of the room, closing the door behind him.

  • Then silently he withdrew, closing the door behind him.

  • Buckling on his sword-belt, the Cimmerian strode out into the court, closing the door behind him.

  • Closing the door behind him, Conan returned to his horse, mounted and turned westward, toward the open desert, swinging wide to skirt the sinister belt of palm groves.

  • She sighed, gradually lowered the flame of the little old glass lamp, blew it out, and went noiselessly from the room, closing the door behind her.

  • And out of the room he bolted, closing the door behind him.

  • She put on the hat in the darkness of the hall with steady fingers, took up the well-filled shawl strap and went forth, closing the door behind her.

  • Re-entering the domed chamber, he extinguished the lamp, and then again emerged, closing the door behind him.

  • He next went into the wine cellar, closing the door behind him, and thence passed on through the archway into the cistern.

  • Closing the door behind him, he touched a button, and an electric lamp illumined the apartment.

  • The Irishman stared at him for another moment, and went out of the room, closing the door behind him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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