Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 2 | Adrian Scanlon insisted on driving up to the front door , once I had opened the gate . |
| 3 | A stray , dingy orange kitten came yowling up to the back door one night . |
| 4 | He came down to the front door with me . |
| 5 | Vitor strolled over to the open door to look out at the house with its quaint latticed windows , its white-painted shutters , the walls awash with waterfalls of crimson bougainvillaea . |
| 6 | As they drove up to the main door Louise tried not to be emotional . |
| 7 | Theodora circled the house in the direction of the arrow and came round to the back door . |
| 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 | Or was she simply going to drive up to the front door and announce herself ? |
| 13 | He walked up to the front door and pushed a button but the chimes went unanswered . |
| 14 | Then they walked up to the front door of the large hospital . |
| 15 | As they walked round to the back door , Ben , Simon 's dog , came lolloping up the beach , charged at Marie with a stick in his mouth and laid it down carefully at her feet . |
| 16 | Later , when it was time to take Eddie back to school , Louise had kissed him at the gate and his father had walked up to the main door with him . |
| 17 | I went over to the rear door and looked out , seeing a little open boarding platform with a polished brass-topped balustrade and , beyond , the Canadian Pacific 's single pair of rails streaming away into darkness . |
| 18 | Patrick nodded and went up to the front door . |
| 19 | With these words , Maisie snapped her mask up to her face and went up to the front door . |
| 20 | Go up to the front door and ask if Lewis is coming out to play ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And I remember four stone steps led up to the front door , and we 'd what they called a parlour then . |
| 23 | Grooves in the pastureland showed where the drive had swung round to the front door . |
| 24 | The tan Mercedes sports slipped up to the main door . |
| 25 | Suspecting some bizarre practical joke , Charlotte marched up to the front door and rang the bell . |
| 26 | He watched Simon 's trainers padding around to the back door only inches from his face and he wanted to scream , to rid himself of the unbearable tension . |
| 27 | He ran round to the front door . |
| 28 | The two men ran round to the front door , broke down the door with a sledge hammer and went upstairs , calling for the missing woman . |
| 29 | At the end of her street , she 'd run in a mad panic , pelting round to the back door . |