Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to the front [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden . |
| 2 | Television and radio carried brief reports , while the the story squeezed on to the front page of the national evening newspaper Izvestia , between larger accounts of the Congress of People 's Deputies , Russia 's row with Ukraine and an explosion at an Armenian arms depot . |
| 3 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 4 | I moved in to the front room where the disco had moved on to heavier metal ( New Model Army , I think — a band to watch despite their fans ) but still nobody was dancing . |
| 5 | Adrian Scanlon insisted on driving up to the front door , once I had opened the gate . |
| 6 | He came down to the front door with me . |
| 7 | As he strolled back to the front window , and peered behind the curtains again , Bodie asked , ‘ And where were you on all these exotic foreign trips ? ’ |
| 8 | She was at the top of the steps leading down to the front door of the Moebius Strip . |
| 9 | ‘ Whoever 's that ? ’ said his Mum going through to the front door . |
| 10 | The ground level appeared to be slightly higher than he remembered and there was no sign of the seven semi-circular steps leading up to the front door . |
| 11 | When he reached the steps leading up to the front door of the Guild Office , he found the place in darkness , with no sign of life . |
| 12 | Asa braked at the foot of broad steps leading up to the front entrance , walls and towers rising above them . |
| 13 | Or was she simply going to drive up to the front door and announce herself ? |
| 14 | He walked up to the front door and pushed a button but the chimes went unanswered . |
| 15 | Then they walked up to the front door of the large hospital . |
| 16 | After her act another blonde in black , thigh length leather boots , studded belt , bra and pants strutted onto the stage , removed her top and stepped up to the front row , where the Koreans stuffed dollar notes down the front of her knickers . |
| 17 | One man was killed and another two people injured when a car overturned and smashed in to the front wall of a house . |
| 18 | You cool little sod , thought Toby , and reluctantly went down to the front drive . |
| 19 | Parting the curtains , he went through to the front half of the room . |
| 20 | Pondering these matters , she went through to the front room to clear up the mess . |
| 21 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 22 | Patrick nodded and went up to the front door . |
| 23 | With these words , Maisie snapped her mask up to her face and went up to the front door . |
| 24 | Go up to the front door and ask if Lewis is coming out to play ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Go up to the front row and keep two chairs , ’ he directed and then left them . |
| 26 | It is easy to picture how it looked , for the steps and ball-topped garden gate piers to the left of it would have led up to the front door , and there would have been an exact replica of this wing to the far left . |
| 27 | And I remember four stone steps led up to the front door , and we 'd what they called a parlour then . |
| 28 | Politicians were masters of the quick recovery , Trent thought as he went back to the front room . |
| 29 | You find some tape in a kitchen drawer and go back to the front hall , turning him round so that you 're between him and the door . |
| 30 | Grooves in the pastureland showed where the drive had swung round to the front door . |