Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the front [noun] " 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 Leeds are OK at the back , it 's all down to the front man not earning his transfer fee basically .
8 You cool little sod , thought Toby , and reluctantly went down to the front drive .
9 One man was killed and another two people injured when a car overturned and smashed in to the front wall of a house .
10 A bolero for example , is really just a short cardigan with curved front edges and crossover cardigan just has extra width built in to the front pieces so that they overlap each over .
11 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 .
12 and er , anyway he hobbled in , oh he said , me knee , hmm , anyway sat with him and had a cup of tea , she did n't have nothing to drink like and er , anyway we had our tea and he hobbled in to the front room , and er and er , she says well you bugger you are , er batter mixture up for ya
13 Parting the curtains , he went through to the front half of the room .
14 ‘ Whoever 's that ? ’ said his Mum going through to the front door .
15 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 .
16 Pondering these matters , she went through to the front room to clear up the mess .
17 The President sat at a plain wooden desk to the right of the door through to the front room .
18 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 .
19 He carried the pot and three mugs through to the front room .
20 ‘ Go up to the front row and keep two chairs , ’ he directed and then left them .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Adrian Scanlon insisted on driving up to the front door , once I had opened the gate .
24 Each house had an iron gate and a short tiled path up to the front door .
25 She walked quickly up to the front door , opened it , turned and waved .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Patrick nodded and went up to the front door .
30 He walked up to the front door and pushed a button but the chimes went unanswered .
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