Example sentences of "[vb past] the front [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His tall house loomed over him as he unlocked the front door . |
| 2 | Adam unlocked the front door and they went inside . |
| 3 | Boyd Stych unlocked the front door and slung his knapsack into the corner reserved for the coats and hats of his wife 's visitors ; clumped through the lounge in his heavy , laced boots and shouted not very hopefully : ‘ Hi , Olga , I 'm back ! ’ |
| 4 | He waited while Father Barnes unlocked the front door , then followed him in and offered to make a cup of tea , the British specific against disaster , grief and shock . |
| 5 | Emily unlocked the front door and stepped inside . |
| 6 | He came home and unlocked the front door , calling out as he came . |
| 7 | Their first task was to rebuild the wall which divided the front room from the back parlour . |
| 8 | She marched into the hall and flung the front door open . |
| 9 | American Danny Sullivan went on to win a race which also saw Emerson Fittipaldi , of Brazil , who shared the front row with Mansell , knocked out in a separate accident . |
| 10 | They made the front roll bar so much stiffer that the cars understeered out of the race with the front tyres worn out . |
| 11 | They gratefully made the front door of Nails 's terrace house and crowded into the kitchen with the others . |
| 12 | ‘ Where are you sleeping ? ’ she asked as we made the front door . |
| 13 | ‘ Fowler ’ was inserted for ‘ Tebbit ’ on the placards and the demonstration went ahead with a degree of intimidation that made the front page of every national newspaper the next day . |
| 14 | It was reported in the form of an ultimatum , and made the front page of one or two tabloids . |
| 15 | This time its Holybourne ; last year Anstey Lane made the front page . |
| 16 | She was rehomed , but the story made the front page of the local Sunday paper . |
| 17 | A ribbon-lace Verity Lewis creation once stopped the show and made the front page of the Mirror on its debut in a B.B.C. dance routine for the 1980 ‘ Marti ’ series . |
| 18 | In sport , on April 27th , Brian Clough showed his membership of the pantheon of verbal Rottweilers when his retirement as manager of Nottingham Forest football club made the front page of every British daily paper , including the Financial Times . |
| 19 | Pope John 's message to heads of state — broadcast on Vatican Radio on 25 October — made the front page of Pravda the next day under the banner headline : ‘ We beg all rulers not to be deaf to the cry of humanity ’ . |
| 20 | This issue made the front page on the Daily Mail as well as its editorial . |
| 21 | ‘ We made the front page ! ’ he exulted , holding the rag up so that I could see the headline : ‘ WOMAN DIES AT THEATRE ROYAL . |
| 22 | As soon as she was safely past the shuffling fraternity , she opened her own newspaper and rapidly scanned the front page . |
| 23 | I told him that when he came up the ramp he must accelerate on the throttle at speed so that he got the front wheel up in the air , so he would n't nosedive and hurt himself . |
| 24 | He tried the front door . |
| 25 | He tried the front door . |
| 26 | Theodora tried the front door . |
| 27 | She pushed it open and entered the front hall . |
| 28 | I felt like Father Christmas as I entered the front door of the cottage to be welcomed like a long-lost son . |
| 29 | Mrs Bennett was standing in the hall when she entered the front door , beady-eyed and flustered like an angry hen . |
| 30 | A battered life-size carving of Kean as Shylock greeted Charles as he entered the front door . |