Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the front " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Henry got through the front gate , number 60 went back up the street towards his wife and number 47 dropped , suddenly and dramatically , on to his knees in front of the red Mitsubishi . |
| 2 | Blanche tumbled through the front door of her flat just after eleven o'clock . |
| 3 | The two women jumped out and sprinted for the front door of the cottage , Donna struggling with the key . |
| 4 | It was certainly taller than the other buildings in Anani 's main street and , despite its shabby exterior , I could sense the air of warmth and welcome the moment I passed through the front door . |
| 5 | Outside , the world was waiting for Mr Major 's victory oration and shortly after 1.00 he made for the front door . |
| 6 | Margaret had two friends in supervising the children downstairs , and they were both rather surprised when first the midwife and a student and then Margaret 's husband crashed through the front door . |
| 7 | Shiona parked at the front , instead of at the side of the house where everyone normally parked their cars , and , pushing back her hair , headed for the front door . |
| 8 | Theodora moved to the front hall and opened the door . |
| 9 | All was going well until I knelt on the front overlap . |
| 10 | I cursed , crept towards the front hall , then stopped dead as I heard voices . |
| 11 | She came through the front door of the shop and was a little surprised at not seeing her husband behind the counter . |
| 12 | His neighbour came through the front door of the house to the right . |
| 13 | As he came through the front door he had picked up his post . |
| 14 | As the party filed through the front door , the girl called out , ‘ Cheerio , Beth . |
| 15 | Menzies gestured towards the front door and went through to draw the bolt . |
| 16 | He gestured towards the front entrance to the house . |
| 17 | The chattering hushed as we filed into the front rows , which allowed easy access to the stage . |
| 18 | He ran , and came with the front rank to the perimeter path and the low wooden fence . |
| 19 | As we came into the front hall I heard Kevin yelling up the stairs , ‘ Stop the hammering ! |
| 20 | The rise of the Nevilles and the Percies in the late fourteenth century was the first occasion when families of genuine northern origin came into the front rank of the nobility — one may exclude the duchy of Lancaster from any such comment , because it was closely connected with the royal family and also held substantial lands in the Midlands and the South . |
| 21 | Then incongruous suburban chimes jangled from the front porch . |
| 22 | Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road . |
| 23 | Downstairs if you came in the front door ( which people rarely did ) you would find a large room on each side . |
| 24 | The next morning they were idling in the luxury of a long breakfast , enjoying the chatting in the warmth of the room , the tussocks in the white field outside the window stiff with frost , the only green grass the huge dark circles under the cypress trees , when a single shotgun blast came from the front room . |
| 25 | ‘ A runner came from the front trenches , down the communicating trench . |
| 26 | Bragg banged on the front door . |
| 27 | Grabbing Maura 's hand she ran up the stairs and banged on the front door with her fists , demanding to be let in . |
| 28 | I banged on the front door for ten minutes , getting colder and colder . |
| 29 | I had no intention of taking the Transit up West — I 'd had enough trouble round the launderette , which doubles as a common room for the junior branch of the Hackney National Front — so I left it parked outside the front door in exactly the spot where Frank and Salome usually plug in the nightlight for their VW Golf . |
| 30 | But he came to the front bench late , as Secretary of State for Employment from 1974 to 1976 , and leader of the House of Commons from 1976 to 1979 . |