Example sentences of "[adv prt] through the front [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He thought of telling her that he was a friend but friends did n't dive in through the front door ; they did n't have blood on their wrists nor cuts all over their faces ; they did n't have a rope burn round their necks and they wore shirts , at least until they were properly introduced . |
2 | I was welcomed in through the front door almost before it was opened , and settled down in front of a Victorian stove that was brimming with hot coals . |
3 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
4 | ‘ I never like going in through the front door , ’ Ace said , ‘ but I guess you 're right . ’ |
5 | Cold air drifted in through the front door . |
6 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
7 | She went in through the front door , as always . |
8 | The last time that that young person went into secure accommodation in Middlesbrough , he went in through the front door at 3.30 pm , and at 5.30 pm he disappeared out the back door and stole a car to make his escape . |
9 | and peering in through the front door |
10 | It was a shame , really , thought Robert as he lugged a crate of lemonade in through the front door , that it was also the day the whole place was due to be consumed in hell-fire . |
11 | As I got out I caught the enigmatic Mr Goodson sneaking in through the front door , but if he 'd seen me pull up , he did n't wait to say Hello . |
12 | Cawthorne walked back to the farmhouse and in through the front door . |
13 | Cornelius gazed in through the front window of Molly 's Wholefoods . |
14 | A large iron drive-wheel projects high up through the front wall , providing a source of power for ancillary equipment . |
15 | Down the twisting stone stairs again and out through the front door opposite the barber-shop where the barbers used to look so longingly at our flowing locks — later on , the regulation hair-style for most young men . |
16 | When we squeeze the Devil out through the front door , we unwittingly let in all sorts of secular ideologies that masquerade as Christian ones ( which is just another way of saying that he comes in again through the back door ) . |
17 | He let the young man out through the front door . |
18 | Even in the Regal Arms they were liable to think it unusual if anybody carried a body or a badly wounded man down the stairs and out through the front door . |
19 | Rohmer was already pushing out through the front door after Duvall . |
20 | We trotted down the long flights of stairs and I followed her out through the front door . |
21 | Five minutes later , without giving herself time to think , be disappointed that she probably would n't see him again after today , she ran lightly down the stairs and out through the front door . |
22 | But , leaving her for a brief while , he went to instruct Ivo to drive her back to her hotel , and then escorted her out through the front door . |
23 | There was something in his walk — his whole aspect — as if , instead of having come out through the front gate , he had squeezed through a secret hole in the fence . |