• She backed the Dodge into the middle of the yard, opened the right-hand back door, and left the engine running while she carried out the egg trays from the house and settled them one on top of another on the floor, all this as it always was on a Thursday.

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  • Ten years after the outbreak, apartment and office blocks still boast of how many times daily they sanitise lift buttons, hand rails, door knobs and almost all public surfaces.

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  • He put his hand on the door, as if to go, then he turned and smiled, not so much at me as at something that had just crossed his mind.

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  • They may wake up when their wives walk out the door or hand them divorce papers.

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  • He now faces Australian Quinten Hann , who reached the third round despite cutting his hand on a toilet door in the mid-session interval.

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  • Krugman, on the other hand, has left the door wide open to the possibility that anyone from Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen (1969) to Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims (2011) could be among the idiots he has identified.

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  • Or maybe, she thought as she stood in the kitchen, opening and closing the dumbwaiter door with one hand, the necessary act of sacrificing one phone for another could be read as a veiled enactment of the sort of ambivalence required for alternating between lovers in the first place.

    NEWYORKER: Another Manhattan

  • Most restaurants and small shops were closed, with hand-written notes on the door: "For technical reasons closed on 10 and 11 November".

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  • Devade shows the Central American to the door, shakes his hand, and the visitor, instead of waiting for the elevator, rushes down the stairs.

    NEWYORKER: Labyrinth

  • Actually, first she swung into the room like a broken gate, holding the door frame with one hand and slamming the other one flat against the wall.

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  • His trip to a poor estate in Glasgow in 2002 for a by election turned out to be more than the usual hand shaking, envelope stuffing, door knocking political trip for the then Conservative leader.

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  • She carried nothing in her hands, no purse, no personal possessions of any kind, but when Arty opened the door she raised her hand and dimmed her eye, taking one last drag from a cigarette before extinguishing it under her bright silver heel.

    NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian

  • On Sundays, when he looked down from the pulpit at aged faces, at tired eyes, heads turned to hear him better, and when his hand was afterward shaken at the door, he sensed the hope that had flickered into life during the service: in all that was promised, in Psalm and Gospel, in his own interpretations, the end was not an end.

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  • On the other hand, the room was located next door to Stanford's network operations center (NOC).

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  • Its dealerships are distinctively designed, looking and feeling more like woodsy lodges than showrooms, with plenty of amenities and a full inventory of value-added Land Rover gear and clothing on hand to ensure nobody walks out the door without making a purchase.

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  • And so we've got to leave our egos at the door and go in and work hand in hand.

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  • On the other hand, Mr Clinton has kept open the door to eventual ratification, perhaps a decade from now.

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  • Choose two- or four-door models in right- or left-hand drive, gasoline or diesel, manual or automatic, and seating for up to nine.

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  • Constance went to the balcony, opened the door, and stepped out, stuck her hand into the air over the edge.

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  • But on the other hand, Mr. Putin did seem to open the door a bit to more discussions on this issue.

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  • Ally, with her hand on the lever, about to open the car door, was thinking that nothing on earth was strong enough to pull this ugly secret out of her, least of all a woman who thought it mattered if her stupid novel had died.

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  • With the pointer that he keeps attached to his hand, Ward can punch in a security code and the automatic door swings open.

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  • The grizzled cook stood with his shoes off, having left them at the door, and with his lambskin hat clutched in his hand.

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  • On the other hand, you saw this great deal on eBay or your next door neighbor says he has a friend of a friend.

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  • By 1987 he was bringing clothing and medicine to Baan Borang and then hand-packing a few silk items on each trip to sell door-to-door back in Singapore.

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  • She waved a well-manicured hand at them and climbed into her vehicle as a driver held her door.

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  • Also on that short list, it so happens, is spotting one of the aforementioned troops hand-feed an overzealous and noticeably plump squirrel who's anxiously scratching on the door to get in.

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  • The hand of a friend comforts, yes, but it does its most important work when it opens a door.

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