But she remains frightened about answering the phone or dealing with a knock on the door.
She found out about what had happened when she had "a knock on the door from the police".
Just then Dr. Blork entered the room, giving the barest hint of a knock on the door before he barged in.
One February day in the mid-1990s, Mr. Tombari and his wife, then living in California, got a knock on the door from a friend.
Now committee member and Labour MP Louise Ellman has warned Lord Birt that he could receive "a knock on the door" if he fails to give evidence.
But at least we can now sleep at night without worrying that there's be a knock on the door and we'll be carted off to the army.
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Today in Britain - not in some foreign dictatorship, not in a bygone age, you can wake up in the morning, in your own bed, in your own home to hear a knock on the door from an official with one of over a thousand powers that now allow the state to enter your home.
That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.
They left just as a thundering knock landed on the front door and reverberated through the apartment.
Are you waiting for the knock on the door for a deportation case?
But it's not easy to reassure a child when parents are afraid themselves of the knock on the door with bad news.
Thus transformed, she will knock on the front door and sip from a glass of wine traditionally set aside for the Biblical prophet.
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Take some steps to prevent a repeat performance: Install a lock on your bedroom door, encourage kids to knock, play soft music or the TV for white noise at night, and schedule "private parent time" when your child knows not to disturb you.
Fortunately for the British, his Anglophilia survived the rebuff he received as a young man when his admiration for William Pitt the Elder had led him to knock on the door of Pitt's house in London, by then the home of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
It is getting to the point where, at least for a certain but significant part of the population, you can now communicate as confidently for persuasion or GOTV (Get Out The Vote) with somebody online as you would by sending a canvasser to knock on their door or sending mail into their mailbox.
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The 22-year-old answered a knock to the front door of her home in Third Avenue in Luton at 13:10 GMT on Thursday.
We pay tribute to the shelter workers who show that they care every day and the law enforcement officers who treat victims with dignity and respect when they knock on a door.
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