Example sentences of "through the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they come through the death-cell door : |
| 2 | He tried protesting to Selkirk , who simply struck him across the mouth and pushed him through the metal-studded door . |
| 3 | Alfred 's shop looked as though it had been closed and deserted for months ; it was hard to believe that it was only three days since a few people , at least , had been entering through the rickety door with its small glass panes to buy patent medicines or seek advice . |
| 4 | What plodded through the front door was not the lovable , lazy hound who had once lived there but a grim-faced light bulb serial killer ! |
| 5 | An East German — unwisely , perhaps , in view of the easy access through the front door — made a desperate bid to scramble over the embassy railings . |
| 6 | As more East Germans joined the cries for help , the diplomat burst through the front door and sprinted 300 yards around the embassy perimeter until he reached the grotesque tug-of-war . |
| 7 | I entered the house through the front door . |
| 8 | But again it was Conlon , the slightly wild-eyed Irish poet of the quartet , articulate , flamboyant — remember that extraordinary exit through the front door of the Old Bailey — who cut deep into the collective conscience . |
| 9 | Throughout the dispute my technique was to go through the front door — I refused to be smuggled in — and then ask for a deputation of the demonstrators to come and talk to me . |
| 10 | Down the twisting stone stairs again and out through the front door opposite the barber-shop where the barbers used to look so longingly at our flowing locks — later on , the regulation hair-style for most young men . |
| 11 | During the next few days I lived in terror , doors locked , ready to fly — to leave through the front door if Aunt Louise came to the back , or out of the back door if I saw her coming down the path . |
| 12 | It was quicker than pushing through the front door and round to the side again . |
| 13 | Suddenly there was a commotion outside as Nigel and Elinor hurtled up the garden path and through the front door . |
| 14 | LEVITATING briskly through the front door of 11 Downing Street , parallel to the letter-box , the new Chancellor of the Exchequer made his position clear . |
| 15 | He thought of telling her that he was a friend but friends did n't dive in through the front door ; they did n't have blood on their wrists nor cuts all over their faces ; they did n't have a rope burn round their necks and they wore shirts , at least until they were properly introduced . |
| 16 | She came through the front door of the shop and was a little surprised at not seeing her husband behind the counter . |
| 17 | I was welcomed in through the front door almost before it was opened , and settled down in front of a Victorian stove that was brimming with hot coals . |
| 18 | He could n't have come in earlier through the front door because there would have been a substantial risk of either Dr Darnell or Wetherby himself seeing him . |
| 19 | Brown and the remaining pair went through the front door . |
| 20 | It 's ironic that a prostitute can get a hotel room by bribing someone but if you 're a respectable woman you are likely to be arrested if you even try to get through the front door . |
| 21 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 22 | When we squeeze the Devil out through the front door , we unwittingly let in all sorts of secular ideologies that masquerade as Christian ones ( which is just another way of saying that he comes in again through the back door ) . |
| 23 | Service of this can only be made by a solicitor or Sheriff Officer who will either post it in a special court recorded delivery envelope , arrange for it to be personally handed to your debtor , or put through the front door of his house . |
| 24 | With a shrug , he retrieved his black jacket , pinched a couple of cookies from the carefully arranged plate and drifted quietly away through the front door . |
| 25 | His quiet retreat through the front door had somehow emphasized his scorn . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | His neighbour came through the front door of the house to the right . |
| 28 | He let the young man out through the front door . |
| 29 | We walked through the front door and into the bar . |
| 30 | To suggest that the struggle was not between science and religion but over cultural leadership may expel the conflict through the front door , but it still returns through the back . |