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 .
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