Sentence examples for the door note from inspiring English sources

Wire service reporters grabbed their cellphones and rushed for the door, note pads flapping, to call in the news.

But note the door: note the wall: note the power of the door in the wall that you never saw was there.

A late shop was still open, a watchful Indian at the door noting who came and went.

"None of us female DJs would be here without her, because she opened the doors," notes 6 Music's Lauren Laverne, who interviewed her on a special music themed edition of Woman's Hour.

Little thought was given to the Chinese reaction to the Open Door note; the Chinese minister in Washington, Wu Ting-fang, did not learn of it until he read of it in the newspapers.

Brain extenders are anything that get information out of our heads and into the physical world: calendars, key hooks by the front door, note pads, "to do" lists.

As American troops were sent to China to relieve the nation's legation, Hay sent a letter to foreign powers (often called the Second Open Door note), stating while the United States wanted to see lives preserved and the guilty punished, it intended that China not be dismembered.

A reporter jokingly asked Mr. Bush if she could leave the plane through the less crowded front door, which Mr. Bush uses, instead of the back door, noting that the rear exit was "separate" but not "equal".

Rockhill drafted the first Open Door note, calling for equality of commercial opportunity for foreigners in China.

With Britain's support (the British stood to gain the most from equal trade opportunities), on September 6, 1899, Secretary of State Hay addressed the first so-called Open Door note to the powers with interests in China; it asked them to accord equal trade and investment opportunities to all nationals in their spheres of interest and leased territories.

Now that she had one shoe in the door, the note said, she hoped to get the other one in, too.