How To Use Doorbell In A Sentence
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Mariah excused her for doorbell duty and we all lounged out on the floor and sofa.
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If the doorbell rings, will I have to hide away upstairs?
The Sun
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She rang the doorbell, listened to the silence within and felt a moment of panic.
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That child is an absolute pest he keeps ringing the doorbell and then running away!
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About half past eight I was lounging on the couch, channel-surfing when my doorbell rang.
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One resident, who wished to remain unnamed, said the lifts had been damaged, the careline tampered with, doorbells vandalised and windows broken.
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She answered the door before I could ring the doorbell.
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She stepped towards the door and in that very same instant, the doorbell rang.
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Between rubber-necking the shiny, red-faced clientele around the dining room, "picnicking" on the potato salad, and chattering away about the unraveling of events of the evening, I was tempted to press the tiny little doorbell that is attached to the edge of every table in the restaurant.
Archive 2007-02-01
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She then trudged up the three steps to the main door and rang the doorbell.
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There was another long ring on the doorbell, followed by a hard kicking sound.
DESPERADOES
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This consistently upbeat catalogue song lists those relatively ordinary phenomena which exhilarate and hearten Maria, from raindrops on roses to doorbells and sleighbells to wild geese on moonlit flight.
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She has a sister who lives in Queens, but she has never had enough courage to ring the doorbell.
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And I've got a sawbuck that says Cramer punches our doorbell before noon.
MURDER IN E MINOR
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I was about to wish for a rock to fall off the sky and flatten me into a very slow and painful death, when the doorbell rang.
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That child is an absolute pest he keeps ringing the doorbell and then running away!
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I am malty come home, strip off the dress outside preexistence door, press a doorbell again.
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Just after you arrive home, your doorbell will ring and your groceries will be handed over.
Times, Sunday Times
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At exactly six-thirty that evening, I walked up the steps of Lydia's front porch to ring her doorbell.
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When they do notification his remainder he runs away and they all give casebook, meaning to killer him, out of the houseboat through the backbench doorbell.
Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)
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More of a private lounge than a public boozer, you ring a doorbell, a kindly staff member leads you to the lounge and you peruse a menu of classic cigars before taking your pick.
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Maggie is cooking in her kitchen when the doorbell rings.
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On the appointed day and time, the dowager's doorbell rang and she walked out onto her porch.
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When she didn't answer the doorbell he said he forced the door and went into the flat.
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A perspirer (over sixty) who was keeping up his tennises panted he kne ho har twa to clect infamatios but a diffpair flannels climb wall and trespassing on doorbell.
Finnegans Wake
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When the gong and clappers on a doorbell unit or the plungers on a mechanical chime unit get dirty and dusty, dip a cotton swab in alcohol to clean them.
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Someone started to ring the doorbell while someone else was banging the knocker.
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The association also provides equipment and aids for use in daily living like television and stereo listening devices, smoke alarms and doorbells.
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The children ring our doorbells in the middle of the night.
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Activists ring doorbells and telephone voters in critical districts, urging supporters to get out the vote.
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Did it go for Samian and Etruscan ware, too, she had been wondering when the front doorbell had rung.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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The doorbell rang as I was trooping down the stairs and I counted the possibilities of who it could be.
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Two little oiks rang my doorbell just now (I'm at home today).
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He refused to answer the doorbell.
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Explaining to a friend how to find his apartment, he said, "Come up to the middle of the 5th floor and ring the doorbell with your elbow.
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It would be difficult to think, offhand, of a simple explanation of why a young woman, a total stranger, wearing only a nightdress, rang our doorbell at 7.45 in the morning.
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The ignition button looked like a doorbell.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of them got cheekier, though: ringing the doorbell, peering through the windows.
MR STARLIGHT
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She eats one of your bananas and helps herself to a yoghurt before the doorbell rings.
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One resident, who wished to remain unnamed, said the lifts had been damaged, the careline tampered with, doorbells vandalised and windows broken.
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While cooking the meal of grilled chicken, rice, rolls, and peas, the doorbell rang.
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At about quarter to midnight the doorbell rang and more guests arrived.
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When we rang the doorbell, Maggie answered the door.
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The rozzers showed up a split second later en masse (two cars and a van) and rang the loud neighbour's doorbell.
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A man rang the doorbell and said he was doing some work next door and would like a brew.
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An adaptor on the back of the camera allows for hook up to devices such as motion detectors and doorbells.
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They rang the doorbell and ran like the devil.
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Chris could hear the soft clack of Mr. Marshall's shoes against the marble floor as he walked to get the doorbell.
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He was trying to find room for the wine bottle in the crowded pantry when the doorbell rang.
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But not everyone likes having their doorbell rung after dark, especially the elderly.
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He also said the doorbell was not audible to staff on the first floor, where officers write reports and take refreshments.
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Help with mailings, attend campaign events, and volunteer to go ring doorbells with the candidate.
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Then the doorbell rings a second time, clinching the matter.
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Nova and his mother walked to the front door, passing a poorly manicured lawn and rang the faint doorbell on the dirty and unclean porch having fast food takeout bags in their hands.
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Everyone was already there when I arrived, or so I judged from the sounds of laughter and chatter I heard as I rang the doorbell.
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The dog is trained to alert them to doorbells, smoke alarms and phones.
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Unionists have volunteered to go out and ring doorbells to urge people to cancel their subscriptions.
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A ring at the doorbell announced the late arrival of Jack.
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The girl rang the doorbell of a nearby house and told the owner what had happened.
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Nancy was lacing her shoe up when the doorbell rang.
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Inside the house, the doorbell rings.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was only by chance that I heard the doorbell.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oh, there goes the doorbell, get that, will you, poor person?
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I don't know why, like the way I used to pull down my Frida Kahlo posters in London if certain people rang the doorbell.
WHITE LIES
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Our knees aren't what they used to be and we sometimes confuse the phone with the doorbell.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was submerged in reading an exciting book,and didn't hear the doorbell ring.
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I sat up when I heard the doorbell and my heartbeat quickened as I got to my feet and raced out of my room, down the stairs and stopped at the bottom one.
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As she tells me this, the doorbell rings and a workman comes in to check some door frames in advance of the move.
Times, Sunday Times
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Did it go for Samian and Etruscan ware, too, she had been wondering when the front doorbell had rung.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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At 3 o'clock, the doorbell rang and I sprinted to the front door.
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I'm not a jumpy person, especially when doorbells ring.
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Above the doorbell was a plaque etched in cursive letters.
Under a Maui Moon
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If your doorbell is dirty, the ring usually sounds muffled or muted.
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I was just about coming to my senses, not long before lunch, when the doorbell rang and there stood Graham's parents, again, unwarned and unannounced.
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He'd been sitting at home when the doorbell rang and when he answered it there stood before him a young boy scout, resplendent in his uniform with neckerchief and woggle, who asked him ‘Bob-a-job, sir?’
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By the time the doorbell goes I've wedged it into a large tub.
Times, Sunday Times
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The buzzer was my doorbell, howling now in a single sustained whine such as had not been inflicted on London since the end of the Blitz.
EVENING’S EMPIRE
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The porch light is off, and a dim pink glow emits from the doorbell.
Between Here and the Yellow Sea
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Ding, dong… I rang the doorbell and sat on the swinging chair on their patio.
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Oh dear, there's the doorbell. See who it is, would you, darling.
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I was about ready to leave when somebody rang the doorbell.
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Her doorbell buzzed: she knew who it was, but still, from habit, peered through the globular eye in the door.
COUP D'ETAT
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I think my Grandmother's home in Bombay is an extreme case, where, at some point, my grandmother and aunt got tired of the jangling doorbell and now just prop the door open all day.
Archive 2008-01-01
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For me, that meant literally walking across the street and ringing a doorbell.
Christianity Today
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Then the doorbell rang and he answered the door.
The Sun
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Much like musical doorbell chimes: you can only listen to a badly midi-ized version of the William Tell overture once before you rip out the batteries and revert to knocking.
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The ring of the doorbell pulled Thomas out of his musings.
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A small brass above a doorbell bore the words: Kristof Laszlo, Photographer.
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When you go to somebody ` s house and you ring the doorbell and you knock and they don ` t come, do you call the locksmith, or do you just leave like a normal person?
CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2008
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He'd hear the faraway doorbell sound repeat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not wanting to get into a conversation, David quickly hits the button to turn off the telephone and as it bleeps, the doorbell sounds through the house.
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Yesterday, in a most undignified moment, I answered the doorbell having forgotten the Slinky jiggling restlessly at my buttocks.
Telling Tails
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Another athlete had a missed test after not hearing the doorbell one morning.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had just thrown a load of whites in the washer when the doorbell rang.
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Home to Chaos
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I grinned at him and gave him a hug just as the doorbell rang signalling the arrival of my friends.
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That child is an absolute pest he keeps ringing the doorbell and then running away!
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She told me to hit the streets with the canvas bag and start ringing doorbells the instant school was out next day.
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It was six days after Mandy disappeared that the Barclays' doorbell rang at half past midnight.
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Say you are visiting a friend in Paris and you want to ring his doorbell.
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That child is an absolute pest he keeps ringing the doorbell and then running away!
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As soon as we had put out all the drinks, and the snacks, and even hoagie sandwiches the doorbell was ringing.
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Sometimes I wish our doorbell would go for me.
The Sun
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In fact, he was… actually kind of cute, she giggled nervously, stopping after the ring of the doorbell.
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As she tells me this, the doorbell rings and a workman comes in to check some door frames in advance of the move.
Times, Sunday Times
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I slowly limped to the house, rang the doorbell like a shy visitor, and waited for mom to greet me.
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Late that evening, the doorbell's chime sounded throughout the still house.
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When the sun goes down, we'll close the curtains, extinguish all the lights, make sure the doorbell is unplugged, and hide in the back room with the stereo on loud enough so that we don't hear their begging.
October 2004
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But the minute your doorbell rings, your dog races to the front door to see whether the visitor is for him.
Times, Sunday Times
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She stood in the porch and rang the doorbell.
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Doorbells are available in a variety of sounds, from chimes or buzzers to recorded sound tracks.
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A ring at the doorbell announced the late arrival of Jack.
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I decanted the wine and turned on some dinner music when the doorbell rang.
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The doorbell rang out through the house just as Mom was pulling her chicken casserole from the oven.
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Then the doorbell rang and he answered the door.
The Sun
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You know, there is this brand-new technology you might have heard of called a doorbell.
What Would Emma Do?
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The phone or doorbell rarely rang.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dropping off a plate of homemade cookies with a thoughtful note and then doorbell ditching is fun for the whole family!
Mood Lifters
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A ring at the doorbell announced the late arrival of Jack.
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Blade swirled around when she heard the familiar ring of the doorbell.
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Amy woke up to the sound of her doorbell ringing.
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When she didn't answer the doorbell he said he forced the door and went into the flat.
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But the rest of the hack is a simple matter of connecting a stereo cable to the outputs on a wireless doorbell sounding unit and then to the camera itself, creating a shutter trigger you can fire off from nearly anywhere nearby with the doorbell button.
Turn A Wireless Doorbell Into A Remote Camera Trigger | Lifehacker Australia
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Did it go for Samian and Etruscan ware, too, she had been wondering when the front doorbell had rung.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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The ring of the doorbell saved Tyson from yet another ‘mindless’ conversation with his little sister.
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She goes from house to house, ringing doorbells and then running away.
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Net curtains twitch, nobody answers the doorbell.
Times, Sunday Times
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And then, almost as if on cue, the doorbell rang, and hastily placed her bookmark in the book and jumped up to answer the door.
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Oh dear, there's the doorbell. See who it is, would you, darling.
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We taped our well-wishes, and no sooner had the documentary crew packed up than the doorbell heralded the arrival of the Purse Forum crew, to document whatever happened to be in my handbag and Simon's man-bag.
Alex McCord: A Thousand Gowns -- What's a Girl to Wear?
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When his doorbell rings, he runs to answer, clad in just a towel.
The Sun
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On Friday nobody was answering the phone or the doorbell.
Times, Sunday Times
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With my children in tow, all that ringing doorbells and running away, all that stuffing tennis balls up car exhaust pipes and nicking traffic cones to furnish my bedroom had to end.
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Just as Lola was about to skunk Sherice with her peg points the doorbell rang.
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A couple of weeks ago the postman rang the doorbell early on a Saturday morning.
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Rex rang the doorbell beneath a placard that read: Dr. Juan Ramirez.
MINUTES TO BURN
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They were washing and drying dishes and chattering when the doorbell rang.
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I go home and people are running in and out of the house and not even ringing the doorbell.
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I had finished my crackers and jam and gone back up to my room when I heard the ching of the doorbell and my father's voice and then another man's, though not Uncle Fitz.'s.
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People choose chimes for two button doorbell circuits because they want different sounds for the front and back doors.
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I finished my bath just as the doorbell rang.
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And there was the red flashing light'the "doorbell" -above the entryway, flashing in her clear view.
A Maiden's Grave
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Yesterday afternoon I answered the doorbell and came face to face with an evil homunculus.
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Any canvasser is free to add other Dems 'literature when they doorbell, but they'll have to find non-endorsed lit on their own.
Democratic Endorsement Causes Rift Over Campaign Rules « PubliCola
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And since we're on the second floor and our doorbell is broken, he announced his arrival by hurling a snowball at the window.
"Not much chance for survival if the Neon Bible is true."
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To get into the embassy you ring on the doorbell next to the lift.
Times, Sunday Times
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To his surprise the doorbell actually worked and Sid was soon standing in the open doorway.
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I shook whatever ideas I had been forming out of my mind and pressed the small white button that I assumed was the doorbell.
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Asking myself how they will keep it fresh when doorbell goes.
Times, Sunday Times
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An’ I told Wee Jean it was a hoodie crow to scare her ’cos she’s a wee clype an’ my dad would thrash me if he knew we were ringing doorbells.
A Small Death in the Great Glen
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I heard the doorbell ring, and went to see who was there.
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I ignore the doorbell when it rings because it's never a genuine visitor.
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You can even install a doorbell with 2 different sounds and 2 separate buttons.
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The doorbell rang and she started violently before glancing at her watch with a frown.
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Once she composed herself, and tried desperately to straighten her flyaway hair, she reached out a trembling finger and rang the doorbell.
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Then the doorbell rang and he answered the door.
The Sun
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That child is an absolute pest he keeps ringing the doorbell and then running away!
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When the doorbell rang, I bounced up, but Aunt Rachel hustled me back into the sitting room as she answered the door.
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The runner submitted video evidence and unsuccessfully tried to show that it was difficult to hear the doorbell from his bedroom.
The Sun
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I wake to find Gwen has unplugged all the phones and disconnected the doorbell so I'm not disturbed.
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Still thinking that all this stuff would soon go away on Sunday afternoon, the doorbell rang and a voice on my entryphone said ‘Hello, I'm from the national press.’
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Every time the doorbell or the phone rang, I crazily hoped it was him.
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Kristin nodded and followed him up the gravel path and he looked her over one last time before ringing the doorbell.
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Both have been ringing more doorbells for several reasons.
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Finally, after ten minutes of coaxing, she got me to the doorstep of my house and hesitantly I pressed the doorbell.
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She arrived and rang the doorbell, swallowing down her nervousness.
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He came upon the doorstep of his next door neighbour's house, and rang the doorbell.
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Suddenly I could hear the doorbell.
Times, Sunday Times
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We've got locals ringing the doorbell at three in the morning.
Times, Sunday Times
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He rang the doorbell three times and sat outside my house in his car for over an hour.
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The robot puppy lollops over, its eyes flashing traffic-light green as it makes friendly jingling noises like a doorbell.
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He gave a couple of loud rings on the doorbell.
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Amused by the tone that he knew held no jokes in it, the ring of the doorbell released him of his job of having to sit around and say nothing out of politeness, he stood.
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One was a high-pitched sound that resembled a doorbell while the other was a low-pitched sound that gradually increased in pitch.
