Example sentences of "through the front [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
| 2 | Outside , a sizeable iron drive-wheel projects through the front wall . |
| 3 | A large iron drive-wheel projects high up through the front wall , providing a source of power for ancillary equipment . |
| 4 | Defries was staring through the front window . |
| 5 | She shook her head and looked through the front window . |
| 6 | Through the front window Mrs Mann saw him at the gate , and turned quickly to the girl who worked with her . |
| 7 | Through the front window lay a sprawl of hills , but the window above my bed butted the neighbour 's garage . |
| 8 | In Derry , newly-elected SDLP councillor Jim Clifford said today his daughter was lucky to be alive after a brick was thrown through the front window of the family home . |
| 9 | Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods . |
| 10 | The stone did n't hit him and luckily it did n't come through the front window or something more serious could have happened . ’ |
| 11 | TV raid : Ram raiders smashed a car through the front window of a Granada TV store in Westgate , Guisborough , yesterday at 5.40am and made off with more than £2,000 worth of video recorders . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I entered the house through the front door . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was quicker than pushing through the front door and round to the side again . |
| 21 | Suddenly there was a commotion outside as Nigel and Elinor hurtled up the garden path and through the front door . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She came through the front door of the shop and was a little surprised at not seeing her husband behind the counter . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Brown and the remaining pair went through the front door . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |