Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] door of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first time she rang the bell and went in through the front doors of the elegant old house where the showrooms were situated ( Mattli had no rear entrance ) Paula felt she was stepping into the place of her dreams . |
| 2 | Scrambling to her feet , Ellie ran after the racing Terry , down the stairs , out the back door , across the grounds and in through the back door of the restaurant . |
| 3 | It is almost as if someone has allowed subsidiarity in through the back door of the Town Hall , but not announced its arrival to anyone . |
| 4 | At the Conservative Party conference in October 1988 Mrs Thatcher stated : ‘ We have n't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels ’ . |
| 5 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 6 | Looking in through the open door of one , I saw a fat , drunk skinhead in a wheelchair . |
| 7 | She was at the top of the steps leading down to the front door of the Moebius Strip . |
| 8 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 9 | The way in which the police had cleared a way through to the front door of the building at which Mr Brittan was to speak was particularly controversial . |
| 10 | Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys . |
| 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 | Then they walked up to the front door of the large hospital . |
| 13 | Besides , she was ultimately responsible to Liz for the twins ' welfare , Laura firmly reminded herself as they mounted the wide steps up to the front door of Lady Wyndham 's house . |
| 14 | She turned and walked slowly up to the front door of the villa . |
| 15 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |
| 16 | He flung himself down the marble stairs , and out through the front doors of the school . |
| 17 | They had doubled back and got out of the single-leaf door of the car . |
| 18 | I put my head out of the rear door of the dining car and , looking forward , saw all the passengers climbing upwards into the sleeping cars , with porters following after with their bags . |
| 19 | Gazzer came out of the main doors of St Mark 's . |
| 20 | He joined the slow column heading out of the double doors of the Kitchen . |
| 21 | From Montrose , on 3 February 1716 , he wrote a final despairing appeal to the French regent seeking immediate help , but the following day he sneaked out of the back door of his house , just as his father had left Whitehall nearly 30 years before , taking Mar with him , having appointed a new Commander-in-Chief in Scotland , Lieutenant-General Alexander Gordon . |
| 22 | It seems that the Battler and Rico let fly at somebody who was coming out of the back door of the Regal Arms . |
| 23 | Adam saw the machine-gunner hanging out of the open door of the Jet Ranger . |
| 24 | As it turned out , the principal had caught the other boys , and they were all being marched back in the front door of the school , but Mouse did n't know that . |