Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [adj] door " in BNC.
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1 | I rush out into the hall , down to the front door . |
2 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
3 | She was at the top of the steps leading down to the front door of the Moebius Strip . |
4 | I remember arriving in my father 's Pontiac at clubs just like this , sweeping ( not always silently ; the car was old ) down to the front door to be deposited and greeted , to be called ‘ sir ’ by elderly black men . |
5 | He came down to the front door with me . |
6 | And then I have always fancied a little hall and stairs because at the farm the stairs came straight down to the front door . |
7 | ‘ Whoever 's that ? ’ said his Mum going through to the front door . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Adrian Scanlon insisted on driving up to the front door , once I had opened the gate . |
13 | Each house had an iron gate and a short tiled path up to the front door . |
14 | She walked quickly up to the front door , opened it , turned and waved . |
15 | The Substitute dodged from stone to stone-until he gained the hardened ground in front of the farmhouse where stone steps led sideways up to the front door . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Dizzily entranced by the yellow novelty , I floated free as wood smoke and fluttered around the noisy house , while my anaesthetised feet padded cement steps up to the front door . |
18 | Patrick nodded and went up to the front door . |
19 | He walked up to the front door and pushed a button but the chimes went unanswered . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | And I remember four stone steps led up to the front door , and we 'd what they called a parlour then . |
22 | Suspecting some bizarre practical joke , Charlotte marched up to the front door and rang the bell . |
23 | Then they walked up to the front door of the large hospital . |
24 | There were two or three granite steps up to the front door which had a grubby ‘ Closed ’ notice hung behind its glass panel ; no bell , and no other door . |
25 | Robyn weaved her way through the cars and forced herself to walk confidently up to the front door , despite the sinking feeling in her stomach . |
26 | Or was she simply going to drive up to the front door and announce herself ? |
27 | With these words , Maisie snapped her mask up to her face and went up to the front door . |
28 | Then they backed it up to the front door and they all charged inside . ’ |
29 | Go up to the front door and ask if Lewis is coming out to play ? ’ |
30 | 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 . |