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At and door
At her door, two or three hours later, Mary Jane whispered, `` Everyone is asleep ''.
At Khrushchev's door, therefore, can be placed the primary blame but also at fault are those who permitted themselves to be intimidated.
At the rear of the auditorium, upstairs, some men tried to push open the door to the box corridor.
At that moment the bathroom door flew open and Eugene came out, with his face lathered for shaving, and strode down the hall, tying the sash of his dressing gown as he went.
At the landing she saw Juanita, her face flushed pink with excitement, run down the hall from the kitchen to the front door.
At five o'clock that night it was already dark, and behind my closed door I was dressing as carefully as a groom.
At the door, Dave paused to feel for the latch.
At the door she turned back, her Roman nose looking very long now and satiric.
At the end of the corridor Alec noticed a door marked: Fire Stairs.
At the culmination of the ensuing months-long legal dispute, he watched, as described by Sandford, " millions of dollars of his future earnings being surrendered " in what were " uniquely generous terms for Defries ", then " shut himself up in West 20th Street, where for a week his howls could be heard through the locked attic door.
At first, he is mistaken for a murderer by the four people because he shoots at them through the door ( mistaking them as the Evil Force ), but they find out the truth after listening to a recording of Annie's father, Professor Knowby ( John Peaks ), that talked about how his wife Henrietta was possessed and buried in the cabin's cellar rather than dismembered.
At her door, even before Marlow entered her house, memories of Kurtz began to flow, along with the final words that he whispered.
At age eight Henry was canvassing the neighborhood with a basket under each arm selling vegetables from the family garden door to door.
At night Sextus entered her bedroom by stealth, quietly going around the slaves who were sleeping at her door.
Children's author and playwright L. Frank Baum referred to a seat in this passage of his novel Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ; “ At once a little girl rose from her seat and walked to the door of the car, carrying a wicker suit-case in one hand and a round bird-cage covered up with newspapers in the other, while a parasol was tucked under her arm .”
At the opening of the episode, after a rocket shoots down the Iron Chicken, Major Clanger kicks a door to make it work, and his first words are " Oh, sod it ; the bloody thing ’ s stuck again ".
At an adjacent coach, Gordon Francis saw what happened and moved down the aisle to try to shut the door of the coach he was on.
At the time, she was living in Paris, working in at a printer's shop and had only her youngest child, a son, with her who attended the school next door.
At the end of this sequence, the last one in the room would close the door, and the picture would break up in pieces and crash down.
At ground level there is a principal door flanked by two smaller doors.
At the end of the film, Coraline reaches out to help Wybie tell his grandmother what is behind the little door.
At this time, Xuân walked into Minh's office through the open door, unaware of Đôn's presence.
At 4 am on Saturday, I heard a pounding on my door.

At and Alex
At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.
At least Alex had told him he wasn't dying.
At home in his dreary flat, Alex plays classical music at top volume while fantasizing of even more orgiastic violence.
At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.
At the turn of the 21st century, well-established artists such as Sir Anthony Caro, Lucian Freud, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Agnes Martin, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, James Rosenquist, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein, and younger artists including Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Sam Gilliam, Isaac Witkin, Sean Scully, Mahirwan Mamtani, Joseph Nechvatal, Elizabeth Murray, Larry Poons, Richard Serra, Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Ronald Davis, Dan Christensen, Joel Shapiro, Tom Otterness, Joan Snyder, Ross Bleckner, Archie Rand, Susan Crile, and dozens of others continued to produce vital and influential paintings and sculpture.
At that first meeting there was Al Capp, Walt Kelly, Alex Raymond, Ernie Bushmiller, Milton Caniff, all of them just sitting there, big as life.
At the age of just 21, Alex also became the youngest person to have completed a continuous round without the use of any motorised transport.
At one point Cotton ran from the house and escaped for a few weeks, during which time Alex Snouffer filled in for him and helped to work up " Ant Man Bee ".
At this time Van Vliet was simply the lead singer of the group, which had been brought together by guitarist Alex St. Clair.
At the time, teams were not required to dress a backup goaltender so when the Rangers ' regular goaltender, Lorne Chabot, left a game with an eye injury, Maroons head coach Eddie Gerard vetoed his original choice for a replacement ( who was Alex Connell, another NHL goalie of the old Ottawa Senators who was in attendance for the game ).
At one point, while the Gallaghers are not home, Alex kills Ellen's pet rabbit, and puts it on their stove to boil.
At live shows, Alex is known for being an entertainer, performing aggressive drum solos and stage pyrotechnics.
At this stage, it had been expected that manager Sir Alex Ferguson would retire in 2002, but the manager later had a change of heart and is still at the helm a decade on.
At least one of the two is shot and probably killed when Alex corners them in the cafeteria meat locker.
At the time of the 1990 leadership contest he supported Margaret Ewing in her bid to become SNP leader, but this did not stop him becoming politically close to the man who went on to win that contest, Alex Salmond.
At the age of 22, Fleiss began managing a prostitution ring under Madam Alex after meeting the famous Madam 90210 in 1987 via film director boyfriend Ivan Nagy.
At the 1989 Glasgow Central by-election, the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) candidate Alex Neil called himself and the then SNP MP for Govan, Jim Sillars, the " new Clydesiders ".
At a nearby Paris Métro station and aboard a subway train, Alex, Marcus, and a friend of theirs, Pierre, discuss sex.
At a train station in Pau, France in 1964, a man ( who will later be identified as the 34-year-old Alex ) reflects on his love life over the past 17 years.
At a military encampment in Malaya some months later, Alex hears of the wedding, and that George will be a father soon.
At a circus in Paris, George, Rose, Alex, and Jenny are celebrating Jenny's fifteenth birthday.
At the train station at Pau, as Alex and Giulietta wait for the train, Giulietta wonders what will happen in a few years, when Jenny becomes a woman.
At the beginning of the book, Bill Peach, a company executive, tells Alex that he has three months to turn operations at his plant around from being unprofitable and unreliable to being successful.
At 03: 35 GMT on Sunday 5 February 1939, Alex Henshaw took off from Gravesend Airport at the start of his record-breaking flight to Cape Town and back.

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